Bioinspired engineering: the eye of a parasitic fly of a wasp (Strepsiptera) deviates from the standard insect coumpound eye in interesting ways:

“Xenos peckii vision inspires an ultrathin digital camera”, Keum et al. 2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-018-0081-2

Taking advantage of the present state of a still ongoing many-million year evolutionary process.

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