Cutaway eye evolves from a light patch to a camera eye
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A 70-second explainer of how evolution built the eye, showing a cutaway eye that deepens from a flat eyespot to a pinhole and a lensed eye while a computed retina image sharpens and a generation counter climbs past 363,000.
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Opus 5.5 is truly insane. It one-shotted this explainer of how evolution built the eye. What makes it even more crazy is that every single retina image in this visualization is computed, not drawn! Felt fitting after all the "how a camera works" one-shots. Because, you know... evolution many-shotted eyes. Over 40 times. Enjoy.
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