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From LiveScience.com:
Claude Monet's paintings diffuse into nothing more than a fuzzy riot of color when viewed too closely. Ironically, the impressionist's vision got cloudy late in life, and his whole world blurred like, well, like a Monet. Now scientists have recreated the world as Monet saw it.
The new perspective reveals how the painter's failing vision might have affected his work.
Using historical accounts, Stanford ophthalmologist Michael Marmor estimated the artist's level of impaired vision and with a computer, applied blur and color variation to match the different stages of his declining eyesight, transforming the varied colors of the Monet's "Japanese Bridge" into dark and muddy shades of yellow-green.
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