Fly Eyes for Spying Cameras

Roland Piquepaille writes "Even with sophisticated cameras, we can sometimes get poor pictures. This usually happens because cameras use an average light setting to control brightness. When parts of a scene are much brighter than others, the result is that you don't catch accurately all the parts. According to National Geographic News, by mimicking how flies see, Australian researchers can now produce digital videos in which you can see every detail. This technique could be used to develop better video cameras, military target-detection systems and surveillance equipment. Read more for additional pictures and references about these future surveillance cameras."

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A tad bit off...

[Lord Aurora]

Interestingly enough, the writers of TFA missed the entire idea behind flies' eyes. They talk about motion detection and whatnot, when the real issue is, flies see so well because

they have a million fucking eyes!

(Try not to take this post too seriously.)

Progress

[Rob T Firefly]

Tomorrow's fly-based digital cameras will be so complex, they'll need more than a standard help file. They'll have a "help meeeeee!" file.