Like most other insects, the honey bee (Apis mellifera) has compound eyes - hundreds of single eyes (called ommatidia) arranged next to each other, each with its own lens and each looking in a different direction. This does not mean, however, that the bee sees lots of little pictures, as each ommatidium sees only one intensity, contributing a 'pixel' to the overall image perceived by the compound eye, just like a single photoreceptor in the retina of our own eye.
But there are differences between the bee's view of the world and ours. The bee has a lot fewer ommatidia than we have photoreceptors, and they are not evenly spaced. And of course the bee sees colours differently, relies more on image motion than on shapes, and much more.
B-EYE ignores most of these differences, simulating just the optics of the honey bee's compound eyes. It shows what a bee would see of a flat image, with the bee facing straight at the plane of the image. The original image (24x24cm in the bee's world) is on the left, and the representation of what the bee would see is on the right.
Pour jouer avec le simulateur c'est içi ^^ : http://andygiger.com/science/beye/beyehome.html
Les fourmis présentent également des yeux composés, néanmoins leur mode de vie reste assez différent de celui des abeilles à miel. Bien que sur le principe ce soit la même chose, je ne pense pas que l'on puisse calquer la vision des abeilles avec celle des fourmis. Toutefois, ce simulateur peut nous donner un ordre d'idée de la "vision" des fourmis
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