“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 ...

protensa already had a complex visual system. Anomalocaris is another early arthropod relative with surprising optics. The marine animal had giant compound eyes, about the size of a snooker ball in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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