This is probably tangential, but David brin had an alien race that was cyclopian in "Sundiver", I believe that it saw by emitting light, like a laser, from the eye, and since it could measure exactly the distance of the object it was scanning, it only needed one eye.
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Date: 2006-01-22 07:35 pm (UTC)