Eyes...closer than I ever needed to see them.

[FuzzHugger]

Beautiful/horrifying macro shots of eyes.

http://www.photographyserved.com/Galler ... yes/428809

[tuffteef]

reminds me of mushrooms

[gururyan]

Whoa! That's crazy cool! I had no idea!

...by the way, that honeycomb reflection you see is from the photographer's lighting, in case anybody thought we had a honeycomb texture on our eyes.

[devnulljp]

You want to talk about closer than you ever need to see eyes? I used to dissect fruit fly brains (among other things). One of the things I did was insert the gene for ricin into a jumping DNA element and bang it around the genome to see what it would destroy. Ablated the eyes in a few lines, or bits of them. And you've never seen anything as weird as a mutant fly with legs or genitals instead of eyes.

missing eyes (not my pic unfortunately)


This is an antennapedia mutant, with legs instead of antennae

[deadbeatriot]

holy crap

[Jenesis]

That's some mad scientist shit.

[Jero]

We just opened a whole new can folks

reminds me of mushrooms

Really look a lot like spore prints don't they?

[CBA]

I always thought that the pupil was a hole. I know that there is something over it, as in like the membrane of the eyeball, but I thought that was to protect the fact that the black spot of the pupil was just a hole that let light in. In some of the pics, it looks like there is a bumpy wall there.

It's amazing the stuff that I take for granted everyday. Like:

I CAN SEE

...and I can see because of two weird gooball jello things in my skull.

The last eye pic, if looked at sideways, looks like some kind of crater on the surface of like Io or Ganymede or something, preserved in a plexiglass bubble.

C

[Jero]

It's amazing the stuff that I take for granted everyday. Like:
I CAN SEE
...and I can see because of two weird gooball jello things in my skull.

Too true and too funny

[sevenSHARPnine]

That's pretty gnarly/scary/awesome.

[Nychthemeron]

Damn devnull, what monstrosities do you make in your spare time? Are you Dr. Frankenstein?

[Jenesis]

I always thought that the pupil was a hole. ... In some of the pics, it looks like there is a bumpy wall there.

A bumpy wall made of tolex...

[devnulljp]

Damn devnull, what monstrosities do you make in your spare time? Are you Dr. Frankenstein?

I sequenced this creepy little bastard -- it's an amoeba ... except when it gets hungry, then millions of the little buggers apear out of nohwere and turn into a slug thing that zips off looking for food. If it doesn't find it, the whole thing morphs into this spores-on-a-stalk thing and it shoots its load into the air as a batch of escape pods.
They show kin selection and altruism, and regulate each others' behaviour with chemical signals kinda like ants.
Awesome!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leKI3Cv9YYw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVhLJLG7ug[/youtube]

I have friends who specialise in making gay flies.

The cool thing about the gobs of goo in your head that let you see is the molecules they use as light receptors -- pretty much identical to the little patches on the membranes of bacteria and algae and annelid worms that they use to move toward light and away from predators. Octopuses have way better eyes than us -- the optic nerve isn't smack bang in the middle of the retina, so they have no blind spot. Evolved independently too. When Cthulu awakes, he'll see you alright -- nowhere to hide from the all-seeing cephalopod eye.

Oh, and the pupil is a hole, but it has the lens right behind it.


Mammalian eyes smell fucking horrible when you cut them open too.

[theavondon]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT'S SO FUCKED UP AND IS TOTALLY GONNA HAUNT MY FUCKING DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111ONE

[Companda]

Don't know about you, but i am un CHIEN andalusia.