Fig. 7. Retinal position of all points in the visual field of a crab that are 25 cm
away from the crab's burrow. The positions are shown for different crab-burrow
distances (solid and dotted lines), as labelled. On these lines of equal
dummy-burrow distances we marked the positions of dummies approaching from
different directions with grey dots. The approach directions are grey-level
coded, with smaller track angles being represented by progressively lighter
greys (see inset). Note how the position of the burrow moves upwards in the
visual field of a crab as it moves further away from its burrow (grey circles
at 0° azimuth). The vertical line of small black dots along the
y-axis indicates the elevation in which consecutive neighbouring
vertical rows of ommatidia are facing, to show the pronounced increase in
vertical resolution towards the horizon and the approximate level of
resolution with which the dummies are seen by the fiddler crab eye (after
Land and Layne, 1995a;
Zeil and Al-Mutairi,
1996).