the eye was a test case for natural selection; and for Helmholtz, it was a brilliant compromise — a flawed device to a brass and glass instrument-maker, but a structure nonetheless capable of ...

If this eye detects dark patches ... Nilsson is particularly underwhelmed by compound eyes. Their structure, composed of many repeating units, sets an unforgiving ceiling on their visual resolution.

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 ...

“Unlike traditional monocular camera systems, the bio-inspired camera employs a compound-eye-like structure that allows for the parallel acquisition of frames from different time intervals ...