Resolution and eye design

• Improve resolution of camera eye by

  • Decreasing diameter of photoreceptors
  • Increasing eye size
  • Increasing number of cones - area centralis
  • Reduce lens curvature - increase focal length, but lets in less light

• Improve resolution of apposition eye by

  • Increase eye radius
  • Increase facet aperture size and decrease curvature

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