Distortion (optics)
Deviation from rectilinear projection (optics) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with spherical aberration, a loss of image sharpness that can result from spherical lens surfaces.
In geometric optics, distortion is a deviation from rectilinear projection; a projection in which straight lines in a scene remain straight in an image. It is a form of optical aberration.