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RhabdoForge is a modular, hardware-agnostic insect vision rendering framework that enables real-time closed-loop simulation of compound-eye layers with active photomechanics and optics.
- Why it matters: Understanding insect visually guided behavior requires modeling dynamic interactions between the environment, sensory periphery structure, and internal biophysics rather than treating the brain or eye as static.
- What they did: The framework integrates into Python workflows and uses hardware-agnostic GPU pipelines for real-time ray tracing and stochastic path tracing, with swappable, parameterized compound-eye components plus a 2D-to-3D morphological pipeline.
- The result: In virtual closed-loop tunnel optic-flow centring and spatial hyperacuity mechanism decomposition, it supports testing active sensing elements like rhabdomere microsaccades, aperture clipping, and intracellular pupil adaptation.
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