in reply to Sarah Brown

Oh I see, so the lens varies in a pattern over its surface and just relies on binocular vision and your brain to sort it all out? That’s absurdly clever (and suggests these contacts wouldn’t work for me). I think when I first saw you describe this I assumed the chessboard was an artefact of your brain rather than of the lens. (Like the weird kaleidoscope patterns you get when you rub your eyes too hard.)