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In recent decades, researchers have discovered impressive navigation skills in various birds, in seals, even in a few insects — the latter of which have low-resolution compound eyes.
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Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
The compound eyes of an insect are structurally very different from that of a human—almost a separate category of organ altogether from the more familiar ocular arrangement of lens, cornea, iris, and retina.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
Biologists now think that a sea urchin’s entire body functions as one big compound eye, where photosensitive tissue inside the exoskeleton picks up light that’s filtered by the radiating spines.
—Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2010
Building on earlier work modeling a camera on the shape of a human eye, Rogers and his team recently unveiled a camera inspired by an insect’s compound eye.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
Put someone onstage with a mike and an audience and all those eyeballs shine back—a big compound eye, insectile and glittering.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
Each eye has hundreds of separate facets, each of which is a single unit of the entire compound eye.
—Thomas Cronin, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
Instead, van Dokkum found his galaxies by grouping eight 400-millimeter lenses into a contraption resembling an insect’s compound eye.
—Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
Apposition eyes are the most common form of eye, and are likely the ancestral form of the compound eye.
—Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013
Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
The compound eyes of an insect are structurally very different from that of a human—almost a separate category of organ altogether from the more familiar ocular arrangement of lens, cornea, iris, and retina.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
Biologists now think that a sea urchin’s entire body functions as one big compound eye, where photosensitive tissue inside the exoskeleton picks up light that’s filtered by the radiating spines.
—Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2010
Building on earlier work modeling a camera on the shape of a human eye, Rogers and his team recently unveiled a camera inspired by an insect’s compound eye.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
Put someone onstage with a mike and an audience and all those eyeballs shine back—a big compound eye, insectile and glittering.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
Each eye has hundreds of separate facets, each of which is a single unit of the entire compound eye.
—Thomas Cronin, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
Instead, van Dokkum found his galaxies by grouping eight 400-millimeter lenses into a contraption resembling an insect’s compound eye.
—Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
Apposition eyes are the most common form of eye, and are likely the ancestral form of the compound eye.
—Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013
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“Compound eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compound%20eye. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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