The new technique uses a 3D laser to ablate a curved surface, followed by etching in acid. This method can produce high-quality 3D concave lens arrays that can be used to make soft compound eyes.

The first working compound-eye-style camera can’t quite see like a dragonfly.Dragonfly eyes are made of tens of thousands of individual light sensors, says biologist Robert Olberg to the blogger ...

What am I looking at? These images show several views of the repeating units, called ommatidia (1), that make up the eye of a dragonfly. The colors you see in these images are the result of a process ...

A new method has been developed for fabricating 3D compound eyes. The technique uses a 3D laser to ablate a curved surface, followed by etching in acid. This method can produce high-quality 3D ...

Film Review: ‘Dragonfly Eyes’ Major Chinese artist Xu Bing had 10,000 hours of surveillance videos edited down to 81 minutes and turned them into a melodramatic story meant to be a commentary ...

Chinese artist Xu Bing edited 10,000 hours of surveillance videos into a melodramatic story meant to be a commentary on privacy and violence ...

Known on the street as DragonFLY, this compound is more than a recreational curiosity - it’s a chemically potent substance ...

16. Male striped horsefly (Tabanus lineola)As well as having massive eyeballs that join at the top of the head, these horsefly males have two different sized ommatidia (the photoreceptor units that ...

A UC Berkeley engineer, entranced by the uncanny ability of insects like dragonflies and bumblebees to peer in all directions at once, has for the first time created microscopic versions of their ...