This is pure Russell, interesting technology

There is a an astronomy group I lurk on that sometimes strays a little when it is cloudy outside.

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Subject:      [astro-l] **Perfect** optics: soon a reality?
   Date:       Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:05:09 -0400


Darwin meets lens making; the perfect Invention Machine...?

"The invention machine mates some systems together, redistributing characteristics from two parent lens systems into their offspring. Others it mutates,
randomly altering a single detail. Other lenses pass on to the next generation unchanged. And then there are the cruel necessities of natural selection: The
machine expels most lenses with low fitness ratings from the population, kills them off so their genetic material won't contaminate the others."

The result...the new future of lens making, or...mating.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0e13af26862ba010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/2.html

Claudio


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