Types

There are ten different eye layoutsindeed every technological method of capturing an optical
image commonly used by human beings, with the exceptions ofzoom and Fresnel lenses, occur in
nature.[1] Eye types can be categorised into "simple eyes", with one concave photoreceptive surface,
and "compound eyes", which comprise a number of individual lenses laid out on a convex surface.
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Note that "simple" does not imply a reduced level of complexity or acuity. Indeed, any eye type can

be adapted for almost any behaviour or environment. The only limitations specific to eye types are
that of resolutionthe physics of compound eyesprevents them from achieving a resolution better
than 1. Also, superposition eyes can achieve greater sensitivity than apposition eyes, so are better
suited to dark-dwelling creatures.[1] Eyes also fall into two groups on the basis of their
photoreceptor's cellular construction, with the photoreceptor cells either being cilliated (as in the
vertebrates) or rhabdomeric. These two groups are not monophyletic; the cnidaria also possess
cilliated cells, [10] and some annelids possess both.[11]