I'm getting LASIK eye surgery today, so I've been preparing myself by learning about the eye's optics, and the surgical procedure that enhances handicapped eyes like my own. Unsurprisingly, there are some noteworthy parallels with seismic.
The eye as a gather
The human eye is akin to a common-depth point (CDP) gather. Both are like cameras constructed to focus rays at an imaging point. The retina, in the case of the eye; the reflection boundary in the case of the gather. In the eye, there
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