On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
These are all kinds of eyes in insects ("eyelet" has another meaning). An
ocellus is a simple eye which only detects light. An ommatidium is a part of a
compound eye; it sees one pixel in color and consists of a lens (a set of
mirrors in some crustaceans) and a rhabdom, a rod-shaped bundle of cells
sensitive to different colors. An eyelet is found in the order Strepsiptera.
The eye consists of 16-50 eyelets, each of which forms an image with a lens
and a retina, whose fields of view overlap.
I'm thinking of "kanlysle" for "ommatidium". What do you think?
Yup, I think that would cover it. Of course, that would make that lujvo unavailable for things like rods and cones.
--gjeyspa
Btw, if you know Modern Greek, ματι is short for ομματιον, of which ομματιδιον
is a further diminutive.
Pierre
--
When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates.
Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.
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