UMIST EYE SYSTEM

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The UMIST Eye System (UES) is a development of software originally written in the early 1970s to use computer generated letters and symbols to measure acuity. The

It is a comprehensive commercial optometric PC package designed for use as -

• a professional tool by optometrists and ophthalmologists in practice
• an educational tool by anyone interesting in visual performance.

In conjunction with a PC (n/a for Macintosh) it gives you -

• a more intelligent chart projector
• a more powerful field screener
• a more flexible colour vision test

NB: Registered users moving the software to PCs faster than 200MHz will required a re-compiled Z74_0.EXE file

If moving then avoid Windows 2000 or NT, a few graphic cards and widescreen displays (although see below).

NB: UES is not compatible with Windows 2000 and NT

NB: A few graphic cards will limit resolution to 640x480 resolution

NB: Widescreen displays will distort a few test images, although these may not be important ones:

- make the circular parts of (a) single symbol, sinewave gratings [TestMenu-A-5] and (b) the spot [OptometricDisplay-G] elliptical

- make the Amsler grid [OptometricDisplay-B] rectangular instead of square

- make the red square diamond shape instead of square with OptometricDisplay-I

- make the green squares diamond shape with the Worth 4 dot figure [OptometricDisplay-J]