See your photo through animal eyes

Pick a photo and see it as a praying mantis, a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), a common cuttlefish or any of 162,254 species: 31,189 with values measured in the species, the rest estimated from relatives. Colour, sharpness, field of view, foveas, night vision and motion come from published measurements, and every value shows how good its evidence is.

Open the tool How it worksRuns on your device. Your photo is never uploaded.

Twelve very different eyes

The same sample scene, rendered by the engine for twelve animals with different kinds of eyes.

Sample scene rendered for the praying mantis

Praying mantisHunter insect (dragonfly, mantis)

Sample scene rendered for the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)Fast fly (slow-motion world)

Sample scene rendered for the common cuttlefish

Common cuttlefishCephalopod colourblind polarisation

Sample scene rendered for the bottlenose dolphin

Bottlenose dolphinMarine mammal cone monochromat

Sample scene rendered for the brownbanded bamboo shark

Brownbanded bamboo sharkShark, ray and warm-eyed ocean predator

Snowy owlOwl and night bird

Sample scene rendered for the buff-tailed bumblebee

Buff-tailed bumblebeeBee, ant and locust UV trichromat

Brown ratSmall prey mammal (UV)

Sample scene rendered for the northern leopard frog

Northern leopard frogAmphibian motion detector

Blue jayUV songbird, parrot and hummingbird

Sample scene rendered for the peacock mantis shrimp

Peacock mantis shrimpCrustacean (mantis shrimp, crab)

ZebrafishShallow-water fish tetrachromat

Built from measurements, labelled honestly

162,254 species in the tool, 31,189 of them with at least one value measured in the species itself.
1265 species pages, one for every named species with a measured value on an eye dial.
180 cited sources, each linked to the paper or dataset.

Read how the engine works, the accuracy summary and the sources and licences.

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