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 ...

Discover how scientists have taken inspiration from praying mantises to create artificial compound eyes that revolutionize 3D ...

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 ...

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

They found the ancient creature had a primitive form of compound eye, an optical organ that consists of arrays of tiny visual cells, called ommatidia, similar to those of present-day bees.

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 ...

Biomimetic imaging systems, particularly those inspired by the compound eyes of insects, have gained significant attention in recent years. These systems aim to replicate the unique optical ...