Window screen focuses bricks beyond?

In summary, the conversation discusses whether a uniform diffraction grating (a window screen) can act as a lens to focus objects (such as bricks on a building) for a nearsighted observer. One person mentions the possibility of using defraction to manipulate light rays, while another suggests that the effect may be due to Moire patterns rather than the pinhole effect. The conversation ends with the individual being grateful for the suggestions and realizing that the effect is likely due to Moire patterns.
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Loren Booda
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Can a uniform diffraction grating (a window screen) alone focus objects (bricks on a building beyond) so that a nearsighted observer (I) can better image them?
 
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Loren Booda said:
Can a uniform diffraction grating (a window screen) alone focus objects (bricks on a building beyond) so that a nearsighted observer (I) can better image them?
Diffraction gratings don't focus things to my knowladge. However, what you may be expieriencing might have something to do with Morie Patterns.
 
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I say this without having read the link (sorry I am lazy its late :P) but i think he means that you could change the path of the light rays with defraction and effectively use it as a lens.
 
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Loren Booda said:
Can a uniform diffraction grating (a window screen) alone focus objects (bricks on a building beyond) so that a nearsighted observer (I) can better image them?

If you mean that things seem to be in better focus when you stand right up close to a fine mesh and peer through it at distant objects, then it is likely the pinhole effect is negating your refractive error.

Read this for a very simple explanation : http://www.myopia.org/pinholes.htm
 
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Thanks, folks. It had me fooled! Indeed it must be a Moire pattern rather than a pinhole effect, since there were many apertures contributing to the interference, without substantial loss of light. I guess approximate coherence is canceled out with many "pinholes." Two great suggestions that I initially overlooked.
 

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