Peacock eye

Robert P. Munafo, 2010 Sep 20.

My colloquial name for the prominent patterned branch point found in the filaments in places such as Seahorse valley. In the 1985 Scientific American article it was called a "compound eye" (page 19, figure e).

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This image shows the branch point R2F(13/27B*), and is the largest peacock eye in the R2.13/27a image on the Seahorse valley page.

revisions: 20100919 first version; 20100920 add "compound eye"

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