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A view of a the flight arena. Click here to see a larger photo of this arena.

Visual control of altitude in flying Drosophila

This page provides additional resources for the paper:

Straw, A.D., Lee, S., and Dickinson, M.H. (2010) Visual control of altitude in flying Drosophila. Current Biology. [ link ]

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A hoverfly maintaining its altitude. (Please note that in the paper, we used fruit flies - distant cousins to hoverflies.) here) to see a larger photo.

Videos

In the course of our work, we made several videos:

A short black and white video of Drosophila flying

This video was filmed at 6000 frames per second using infrared illumination. This movie was made by Francisco Zabala & Michael Dickinson (Caltech) and can be used for any purpose without restriction.

A 5 minute video for the general audience

This video provides background and covers the main findings of the paper. Note: this video has been submitted to Current Biology, and they may have some copyright claims on it.

Supplementary Movie S1

Visual clamp experiment. This movie shows the flight and stimulus shown in the 0 deg/s (motion cancellation), 100 deg/s (progressive motion), and -100 deg/s (regressive motion) cases of Figure 2. The movie is at 0.5x (half) speed. The green circle is around the fly position, and the vertical line connects the fly position with the arena floor, and thus shows altitude. In the motion cancellation case, the IR illumination used for tracking is visible as pink spots on the walls of the arena. For the progressive and regressive motion cases, the IR illumination used for tracking has been removed by subtracting a still image taken when the stimulus projector was off. Note: this video has been submitted to Current Biology, and they may have some copyright claims on it.

Supplementary Movie S2

Moving edge experiment. This movie shows four trials from the condition in which the final edge altitude was 20 cm. Experiments as shown in Figure 3C, 3D. The movie is at 1x (full) speed, and the green circle and line are as in Movie S1. In this movie, the IR illumination used for tracking has been removed by subtracting a still image taken when the stimulus projector was off. Note: this video has been submitted to Current Biology, and they may have some copyright claims on it.

Supplementary Movie S3

Trajectory in response to rapidly descending gratings projected on lateral retina, as shown in Figure 4C. The movie is at 1x (full) speed. Note: this video has been submitted to Current Biology, and they may have some copyright claims on it.

Supplementary Movie S4

Trajectory in response to rapidly ascending gratings projected on lateral retina, as shown in Figure 4C. The movie is at 1x (full) speed. Note: this video has been submitted to Current Biology, and they may have some copyright claims on it.

Supplementary Movie S5

Trajectory in response to visual expansion under a fly, as shown in Figure 4D, 4E. The movie is at 1x (full) speed. Note: this video has been submitted to Current Biology, and they may have some copyright claims on it.


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