It could be a new sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Only in this story, the protagonist finds that ordinary optics become wildly unfamiliar. Looking glasses turn oddly opaque, for instance, and convex lenses spread rather than focus light.
Refraction disperses rays (above) from a
point source that hit a slab (between red
lines) of ordinary transparent material.
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