“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 ...

Trilobites evolved a wide variety of eye forms. Trilobites lived between 521 and 252 million years ago. They were one of the first groups of creatures to develop complex, compound eyes, where many ...

Anomalocaris is another early arthropod relative with surprising optics. The marine animal had giant compound eyes, about the size of a snooker ball in the biggest specimens, set on the end of stalks.

Trilobites went down a slightly different route, evolving compound eyes with multiple lenses. But the basic sequence of events was the same. Trilobites weren’t the only animals to stumble across ...

or that there are five distinct types of compound eyes. Aside from specialist reviews, this is the best text-book treatment of eye evolution that I know of. The main text is divided, somewhat ...

the individual hexagonal units that make up a compound eye. In Drosophila mauritiana, otd is expressed earlier in eye development than in Drosophila simulans. This is associated with an increase ...

In this writeup, you can see how to build a cheap compound eye system for your robot. Using 4 IR LEDs and 4 phototransistors, [oddbot] gave “Mr General” the ability to follow movement 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 ...