01 THE 3D ENVIRONMENTHead view · 100° field of view
A conventional camera view
Near and distant objects move differently as the head travels.
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SCENE → VISUAL AXES → FACET SAMPLES
A world through
compound eyes.
Turn the head. Watch the light move across the eyes.
Each facet samples a small patch of the world along
its measured visual axis.
02 THE FACET SAMPLES— axes
Measured lens positions · RGB display
Drag to orbit · Click a facet
360° WORLD · WHERE THE SELECTED FACET LOOKSClick the overview to turn the head
BehindLeft · +90°Forward · 0°Right · −90°Behind
MEASURED AXES, REUSABLE OPTICS
Lens centres and visual axes come from the existing µCT eye reconstruction. Hexagons depict facet samples, not segmented lens boundaries.
Both eyes use the same distant-scene viewpoint. Lens-scale parallax, occlusion by the head, diffraction and temporal phototransduction are omitted in this demonstration.
WHAT THE COLOURS MEAN
RGB is a display aid. Samples are averaged in linear light; the luminance option uses standard RGB luminance weights. Neither view predicts the fly’s spectral responses or ultraviolet vision.
The environment is ray-rendered in 3D. The panoramic overview covers every direction; the camera panel shows only the forward-facing portion. Travel uses arbitrary scene units.
Files stay in this browser. This optical demo does not stimulate the connectome.