Which optical mechanism enabled Ibn al-Haytham to accurately describe camera obscura image formation?

💡 Explanation

When light passes through a small pinhole, ray tracing describes how each point in the scene projects a single ray through the aperture, inverting the image. Therefore a focused image is created, rather than interference, holography or photochemical reactions which operate with different optical principles.

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