An lens for correcting human vision, for example an IOL, contact lens or corneal
inlay or onlay, that carries and interior phase or layer comprising a pattern of
individual transparent adaptive displacement structures. In the exemplary embodiments,
the displacement structures are actuated by shape change polymer that adjusts a
shape or other parameter in response to applied energy that in turn displaces a
fluid media within the lens that actuates a flexible lens surface. The adaptive
optic means of the invention can be used to create highly localized surface corrections
in the lens to correct higher order aberrations-which types of surfaces cannot
be fabricated into and IOL and then implanted. The system of displacement structures
also can provide spherical corrections in the lens.