Dr. Kundart's Cool Eye Stuff

05/22/2023

Monocular depth at its finest.

03/27/2023

Posthumous refraction, 300+ years post-mortem!

Centuries after Huygens' death, we may know why his telescope-making business did so badly.

10/14/2022

It’s been a while, but here’s what we’re learning right now.

01/27/2022

Which would you be?

Explore the incredible diversity of eyes and vision in the animal kingdom, and find out which creature has the best eyesight.--The animal kingdom boasts an i...

09/30/2021

Was the hyper-compound eye to enhance contrast in the dark, primordial seas?

An international research team has found an eye system in trilobites of the suborder Phacopina from the Devonian (390 million years ago) that is unique in the animal kingdom: each of the about 200 lenses of a hyper-facet eye spans a group of six normal compound-eye-facets, forming a compound eye its...

09/02/2021

This is unexpected.

Posted in r/blackmagicf**kery by u/lilfaith77 • 11,994 points and 173 comments

08/20/2021

Just because we can, should we? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590921002952

During embryogenesis, optic vesicles develop from the diencephalon via a multistep process of organogenesis. Using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC…

08/06/2021

It’s been a while. This may be of interest.

Shahr-i Sokhta (sometimes written as Shahr-e Sukhteh), meaning The Burnt City, is the name given to a substantial Bronze Age walled urban settlement in what is now southern Iran (fig. 1) [1]. The s…

05/26/2021

Optical illusions are optical truth!

Cats love sitting on any square object, as if drawn by some primordial instinct. A new study shows that the square can even be an optical illusion.

01/05/2021

Forced perspective strikes again!