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SUBMITTER: Floreano D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3677439 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Floreano Dario D Pericet-Camara Ramon R Viollet Stéphane S Ruffier Franck F Brückner Andreas A Leitel Robert R Buss Wolfgang W Menouni Mohsine M Expert Fabien F Juston Raphaël R Dobrzynski Michal Karol MK L'Eplattenier Geraud G Recktenwald Fabian F Mallot Hanspeter A HA Franceschini Nicolas N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130520 23
In most animal species, vision is mediated by compound eyes, which offer lower resolution than vertebrate single-lens eyes, but significantly larger fields of view with negligible distortion and spherical aberration, as well as high temporal resolution in a tiny package. Compound eyes are ideally suited for fast panoramic motion perception. Engineering a miniature artificial compound eye is challenging because it requires accurate alignment of photoreceptive and optical components on a curved su ...[more]