Head to 243 Old Street in London from September 25th, and you’ll see something beautiful and eye-boggling with an unhelpfully abstract name: the Ommatidium. It's 4.5 metres of street light topped by ...

“People looking down at their phones don’t see it,” says designer Samuel Wilkinson about the Ommatidium, his glimmering installation in the center of the bustling Shoreditch in London. “But others ...

Industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson has created the Ommatidium – a 4.5m street light made of 1,500 glass crystal lenses, that will also act as a digital site-specific sculpture. The Ommatidum is set ...

A shining beacon of connectivity rises in Shoreditch Design Triangle today, and it comes bearing rainbows. Arriving near the end of London Design Festival, The Ommatidium, created by designer Samuel ...

Fun fact: The hexagon is the most common shape in nature. The hexagons in this image are in the eye of a dragonfly. Each hexagonal rod, called an ommatidium, contains major structures that have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract When microelectrodes are inserted in two cells of the same ommatidium in Limulus, current applied through the membrane of one cell produces a ...

3D polymer structures are packed together to create an artificial eye. Scientists in the US have made the first artificial eye using 3D polymer structures. The eye, which is made from individual ...

A camera with a bug's eye view of the world that copies nature's design for insects has been developed by scientists. Like the compound eyes of dragonflies and bees, the camera has an array of ...

Almost all of our cameras form images by using a single lens to focus light onto a light-sensitive sheet. That’s how our own eyes actually work, but there are many other ways of seeing the world.