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Making a lens out of gelatin

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Im wondering if there is some sort of service for creating custom silicone molds to make a lens?
I want to try to make my own gelatin lenses.
I had got the idea from a video where they make an edible retroreflector from agar:

Im curious to know if anyone here has tried to make a gelatin lens before.
 

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I certainly haven't. But if you could find and existing lens you wanted to copy, you could make your own silicon mold using that. Making silicon molds are pretty easy.
 
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