A common misconception is that an Artificial Eye will be a spherical globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wrong!<\/strong> An artificial eye is never<\/em> a round ball! Hollywood and the motion-picture special-effects industry have a lot to do with perpetuating this myth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In recent times for example, the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean<\/strong>‘ film franchise features a character Ragetti<\/strong>, played by actor Mackenzie Crook<\/strong>, who wears a wooden artificial eye (he dreams of being able to afford a glass one!) which has a tendency to pop out and roll around the deck of the pirate ship for comic effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In truth a typical artificial eye is actually much flatter, is more of an oval type of shape and does not \u201cpop\u201d out, being held securely in by the eyelids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wrong! An artificial eye is never a round ball! Hollywood and the motion-picture special-effects industry have a lot to do with perpetuating this myth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball.jpg",1520,714,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball.jpg",1520,714,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball.jpg",1520,714,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball-300x141.jpg",300,141,true],"large":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball-1024x481.jpg",1024,481,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball.jpg",1520,714,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball.jpg",1520,714,false],"post_slider_thumbnail":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/eyeball.jpg",1520,714,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/author\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Uncategorised<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Wrong! An artificial eye is never a round ball! Hollywood and the motion-picture special-effects industry have a lot to do with perpetuating this myth.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}