The compound eyes of a dragonfly are made up of thousands of tiny lenses that allow the insect to see a wide field of view. MLAs are small functional features at micro-dimensions and easy to ...

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 ...

The number of eyes a butterfly has depends on its life stage. Once it hatches, the caterpillar, or larva, has 10 to 14 (though usually 12) small eyelets arranged in a semicircle around its face.

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 ...

Dragonflies are ancient predators, helpful for humans. They eat mosquitoes and flies. Dragonfly nymphs live in water before ...