Photographic simulation of insect vision
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Applied Science Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Photography was used in this experiment as a tool to provide a simulation of insect vision. A bundle of 4,500 black drinking straws were tied together to selectively allow light from the subject to fall onto a 14- by 14-inch ground glass screen. The resolution of the system was created to be equivalent to that of a fly's eye. The resulting image formed on the
ground glass was then captured with a medium-format camera. The sitter in the portrait
is Professor W. R. Muntz, a Monash University biologist, who has studied cephalopod vision, specifically in Nautilus spp.
