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Now Luke Lee, a bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, US, has developed a way of making tiny compound eye structures that self assemble.

Compound eyes are formed from a large number of honeycomb-like tubes that guide light towards a sensor. Lee first creates a honeycomb pattern of micro-lenses by placing droplets of a polymer onto a sheet and allowing them to form lens shapes under their own surface tension. This sheet of hexagonal lenses is then deformed into a dome shape.

The result is a tiny compound eye structure that Lee says could revolutionise micro-imaging by providing an accurate fly's-eye view of the world for the first time.

Read the full self-assembling fly eye patent application.

Justin Mullins, New Scientist consultant]]> http://antidepressionguide.org/2008/01/14/self-assembling-compound-eye/feed/ 0