OT Optical camoflage

[sammystingray]

Saw this on another BB.....pretty cool stuff. I guess they are going to use this stuff in military situations to hide whole building and such. Dial up will be hurting if you click the quick time movie. It's about 1.5 megs or something. Very worth a look. The movie isn't edited, this is what you see.
http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/proj...mages/oc-s.mpg

 

[ryebread]

Holy snot!
That is amazing. I can't wait to see what that brings us........oh yeah, I guess I won't see it. Well I can't wait to hear about it.
Glad to see you back in action Greg. I was scared.
Another OT sammy- I play poker (not pocket) with a guy who has your last name and he is from Cleveland......is that where you are originally from?

 

[coral boy]

Thats cool

 

[wrassecal]

I saw it on the news yesterday. Almost as good as Harry Potter's invisiblity cloak

 

[alti]

unbelievable!!

 

[josh]

SS - I first heard about that on coast to coast AM, people who work nights probably have heard of that show.
Anyway, pretty cool stuff indeed!

 

[dindi]

Bet that guy is in government lock down with our gov. they won't let that one slide away heh heh bet saddam wants it too

 

[snowbear]

Pretty cool concept! Here's the link to the page it came from....
Optical Cammo

 

[thomas712]

Wonder if I could have them make a tux out of that stuff when I get married in October.
Very neat Sammy
Thomas

 

[sammystingray]

RyeBread, yeah, I was born in Cleveland. Ask him if he knows Roger, that's my dads name.

 

[snowbear]

No, it's not paint or a fabric. It's an illusion created by projecting the background to make it look like you're looking through the "cammoflage." I still think the effect is pretty cool, though.

 

[sammystingray]

Can you imagine how freakin' cool it would be to see a tank painted with that, whatever surface it is, and the tank had a camera on back and projector on the front or whatever. I personally would love to see it. I also think it's neat that they are going to possibly use this stuff to make airplane cockpit floors "see through" for easier landings. I guess I don't really know what they'll do with it, but it looks cool anyway. The biggest thing they ever use it for may be on halloween in haunted houses for all I know........we'll see I suppose.

 

[snowbear]

LOL, sammy!! I like the idea of cockpit floor - they could paint them a light color and have the camera under the plane (or chopper) and the projection of the ground image on the floor. The pilots could see in "real time" how fast the ground is coming up to meet them! Probably NOT a good idea for the passenger compartment though

 

[wamp]

That is the absolute coolest thing I have ever seen. I gotta get some of that... I think the passanger area would be cool too.. Imagine being able to see everything below. You would feel like superman flying.
I just had an idea off your idea! Let's do like microsoft and steal the idea from the creators, market it to the airlines, call it our own and get rich!

 

[snowbear]

Personally, I too think it would be cool in the passenger comp. However - I've been on a few commercial flights where there were a few people freaked out about take-offs and landings that being able to see it would be worse!!! Oooooh - maybe they could have "visual" and "non-visual" sections like they used to have for smoking/non!?!?
I just had an idea off your idea! Let's do like microsoft and steal the idea from the creators, market it to the airlines, call it our own and get rich!
Yeah!! - I could use some extra dough to finish building my house....