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eye
(redirected from compound eye)

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The compound eyes form an image; the simple eyes respond to light quickly.
Your Sun Machine, Your Strange Certainty Still Kept, 1996, and Your Compound Eye, 1996, belong to the person seeing them.
Two years ago, Aizenberg and her collaborators made the surprising discovery that thousands of chalk-like calcite crystals spread throughout the exoskeletons of brittlestars, starfish-like marine invertebrates, collectively form an unusual kind of compound eye for the animals.
 
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