If you look at personal lives through that lens, you'll see the same stunning and sobering pattern: people allocating fewer and fewer resources to the things they would have once said mattered most.

如果你用同样的理论来看个人生活的话，你会发现同样的模式：人们倾向于在他们曾经认为最重要的事情上投入的越来越少。

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In one of the final stages of quality control, a technician projects a uniform pattern through the lens onto the wall.

在最后质量控制阶段，技师会透过镜头在墙上投射相同式样的光线。

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The Build lens node can be used to construct a lens model from multiple images of a calibration grid, such as a checker-board pattern, taken at different camera focal lengths.

构建透镜节点可以用来构造一个透镜模型从多个图像的校准网格，如棋盘式格局，取不同的相机焦距。

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The result was a pattern of spots that shows that the lens-like crystals do indeed behave as lenses.

ECONOMIST: Brittlestar eyes

Then he discovered a new Japanese method of cutting diamonds: When viewed under a low-magnification (3x) lens, the stone refracted light in such a way as to give off a pattern of eight heart-shaped sparkles at the bottom of the diamond and eight arrow-shaped fire-bursts through the top--hence the name "hearts-and-arrows" diamonds.

FORBES: Stones on fire