Sunday, April 30, 2006

New Scientist Tech - Breaking News - 'Bug-eyed' lens takes a broader view

'Bug-eyed' lens takes a broader view: "developed an artificial compound eye consisting of a moulded polymer resin dome filled with thousands of light-guiding channels, called waveguides, each topped with its own miniature lens.

The artificial eye could be used to create surveillance cameras, cellphone cameras, and surgical endoscopes with a much wider field of vision, the researchers say. The whole eye is 2.5 millimetres in diameter. Each artificial ommatidia consists of a lens attached to a polymer waveguide that directs light towards the centre of the eye."

Another example for the segmentation principle. Inventors create multiple receptors to capture a wide-angle image. A typical early invention, where focus on just one part of the system. In this case it's Source, i.e. something that captures image and supplies it to other elements. Distribution, Control, and Tool not defined yet. A synthesis problem.

tags: course example segmentation poly source tool synthesis

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