Insect Vision: Apposition and Superposition Ommatidia
These animations have been prepared with the objective of serving as teaching tutorials to assist undergraduate students in conceptualizing the complex dynamics of physiological processes -- especially as they relate to insects. I am sharing these animations with my colleagues that wish to link to them, or refer them to their students for the purpose of illustrating course lecture topics.
As a courtesy, to help me evaluate the usefulness of the animations, if you use them in your teaching, please send me an e-mail at: llkeeley@tamu.edu, and let me know if they are helpful. I would also point out that these are works in progress, and will be updated occasionally with more scenes, voice-over, etc. to improve their usefulness for instruction.
Instructions for playing the animation
The movie starts on opening and the title page takes several seconds to play.
The menu control allows you to review any scene without viewing the preceding scenes.
play: (4 ),
stop: ( <),
restart the scene: ( 9)
back up one frame: ( 7 )
advance one frame (8)
The MENU (78) button allows you to load and view any scene without viewing the preceding scenes.