3-D Printed 'Eagle Eye' Camera Mimics Sharp Vision of Predators (6 of 11) (IMAGE)

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3-D Printed 'Eagle Eye' Camera Mimics Sharp Vision of Predators (6 of 11)

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GIF explaining the principle of foveated imaging, named after the fovea area of the eye, which gives the highest acuity in vision. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 15 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Thiele at University of Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "3D-printed eagle eye: Compound microlens system for foveated imaging."

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[Credit: Florian Sterl, Simon Thiele/ Carla Schaffer/ AAAS]

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