These systems seek to replicate the structure and function of natural compound eyes found in insects and other arthropods, utilising arrays of microlenses—each analogous to an ommatidium—to ...

Compound Eyes, Evolutionary Ties Date: October 4, 2006 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Biologists at UCSD have discovered that the presence of a key protein in the compound ...

Main Eyes: Their largest eyes, the compound lateral eyes, are used primarily for finding mates during breeding season. These complex eyes contain up to 1,000 individual lenses, providing a wide ...

Anyone who's tried to swat a pesky mosquito knows how quickly the insects can evade a hand or fly swatter. The pests' compound eyes, which provide a wide field of view, are largely responsible for ...

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 ...

Copying the human lens takes robotic technology a long-way; however, the compound eyes of insects provides a different level of visualization when it comes to peripheral vision. Other advantages ...

I have here ignored the compound eyes of insects and many invertebrates, which are composed of numerous separate light-processing structures. They apparently do not form really clear images ...

Cameras inspired by the compound eyes of insects enable an extremely wide field of view without expensive lenses, potentially offering cheap, simple and lightweight visual sensors for navigation ...

Biologists at UCSD have discovered that the presence of a key protein in the compound eyes of the fruit fly allows the formation of distinct light gathering units in each of its 800 unit eyes, an ...

They polymerized the structure with ultraviolet light to yield a compound lens with a viewing angle of 149 degrees, similar to that of the mosquito eye. The silica nanoparticles coating each microlens ...