“We can even calculate how many photons they would have captured.” Compound eyes evolved rapidly during the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago. A fossilized arthropod eye from ...

Each eye is about the same volume as the animal's brain. Trilobites lived between 521 and 252 million years ago. They were one of the first groups of creatures to develop complex, compound eyes, where ...

Trilobites went down a slightly different route, evolving compound eyes with multiple lenses. But the basic sequence of events was the same. Trilobites weren’t the only animals to stumble across ...

Anomalocaris is another early arthropod relative with surprising optics. The marine animal had giant compound eyes, about the size of a snooker ball in the biggest specimens, set on the end of stalks.

The authors propose several parameters for evaluating biomimetic curved artificial compound eyes (BCACEs), including the ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...

A challenge in building digital cameras with the hemispherical, compound apposition layouts of arthropod eyes is that essential design requirements cannot be met with existing planar sensor ...