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 ...

“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 ...

We call this kind of eye a compound eye, and because all the little lenses point in different directions, animals that have them are very good at detecting movement – especially of big things ...

The film is inspired by the costumes of folk art performers at Taiwans ceremonial festivals Adapted from the Southeast Asian folktale The Mousedeer Crosses River it integrates similar folktale ...

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 ...

Highlights include unique perspectives through the lenses of a fly's compound eye, scenes showcasing its Herculean strength by spinning objects larger than itself, and a whimsical depiction of a ...