Horse Fly Eyes
by Kjell B Sandved
Title
Horse Fly Eyes
Artist
Kjell B Sandved
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Close up view of a Horse Fly (Tabanus sp.), showing its compound eyes. These consist of thousands of individual photoreceptor units, or ommatidia, located on a convex surface, thus pointed in slightly different directions. The image perceived is a combination of inputs from the numerous ommatidia. Compared with simple eyes, compound eyes possess a very large view angle.
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January 6th, 2015
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