Joel Kontinen
Scientist in South Korea have build a camera an ultrathin insect eye camera. A research team by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) research team led by Professor Jeong Ki-Hun demonstrated a fully packaged ultrathin insect eye camera.
“An insect's compound eye has superior visual characteristics such as wide viewing angle, high motion sensitivity, and large depth of field while maintaining a small volume of visual structure with a small focal length. Among them, Xenos peckii, an endoparasite of paper wasps, has eyes with hundreds of photoreceptors in a single lens—unlike conventional compound eyes with a few light-sensing cells in an individual eyelet. This unique structure offers higher visual resolution than other insect eyes. The Xenos peckii eye also perceives partial images through pigmented cups that block incoming light between eyelets.”
This is KAIST team’s take on biomimetics or biomimicry.
Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did, He did very well.
Source:
Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2020. Biologically inspired ultrathin arrayed camera for high-contrast and high-resolution imaging Phys.Org. 3 March.
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