12-08-2003, 10:24 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Invisible suit
http://www.time.com/time/2003/invent...invisible.html
I just saw this really cool invention. When people think of superpowers, invisibility is usually among the first 3 spots so no wonder it got chosen as one of the coolest invention of 2003. Now, the thing doesnt make you go invisible, but it does make you look transparent. Thats a good start. I believe that sometime in the future, itll be possible to go completely invisible. Its a long way before technology actually allows us so, but of all the problems with the current model, none of them are impossible to solve. If only they can improve the resolution of the image projected, project the image in such a way that the deformations of the suit are cancelled, project the image as an hologram so that it can make you look invisible from any angle and project the image from within the coat so that you dont have to constantly carry a projector around, youll have your fully working invisible coat! |
12-08-2003, 10:39 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Um...I don't really want to be a nay-sayer here,
but it "looks" like someone standing in front of a projector screen. That's not invisibility, that's just someone in a highly reflective jacket, in front of a projected picture. That's more like camouflage. There's a difference. |
12-08-2003, 10:45 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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I don't quite understand how holographic technology can make you seem transparent from all angles. That seems like it would be the greatest challenge, because you could see something as invisible using cameras and high resolution screens, but if you just change your height it will just seem odd and out of place.
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12-08-2003, 10:51 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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I guess it works better with simple objects without too many irregularities. http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/proj...ges/mirror.mpg Last edited by Orodinn; 12-08-2003 at 11:47 PM.. |
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12-08-2003, 11:05 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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IIRC, the military has been working on such a system for some time now, but nothing really working has been achieved. For the moment, it seems more sci-fi than fact, but sometime in the relatively near future, absolutely.
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12-08-2003, 11:05 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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It probably isn't, I saw a video of a guy who used similar technology. It was about as decent as this is, doesn't quite look the same though.
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12-09-2003, 03:49 AM | #9 (permalink) | |
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Thx for the vid.
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12-09-2003, 05:58 AM | #10 (permalink) |
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Combine that with this and you've got a wicked ass suit.
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12-09-2003, 06:33 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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maybe it should be called hi tech camoflauge suit or projector suit because that's not invisible at all.
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12-09-2003, 01:41 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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that's the URL for that fake time site. anyone can make a page that looks like a real TIME page. hate to burst the bubble here.
the picture shows a neat trick in photoshop, and the "mirror" is a great demonstration in basic key chromatography, which is the technical word for "blue-" or "green-screening" used on tv and movies. In high school I did the same thing with a black jacket, touting it as "invisible" by dialing up the black chroma key (the only color I could use, our blue didn't work) which basically changes the opacity of anything with that color on the first video input, allowing the secondary (background) to show through. Last edited by analog; 12-09-2003 at 01:43 PM.. |
12-09-2003, 01:52 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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I dunno bout you guys but I see myself in ladies change room in one of those suits...
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12-09-2003, 02:23 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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12-09-2003, 04:34 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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in that same time article you linked, that "Super black" stuff, absorbing 99.7% of light, sounds really cool! I wonder what it looks like? I wonder what other practical applications there are to the blackest black ever....
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12-09-2003, 07:32 PM | #20 (permalink) | |
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12-09-2003, 09:52 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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There was an article in Wired about this when it first hit. They pointed out the fact that yes, it's a mediocre image, and yes, there's distortion if the viewer isn't at the angle that the camera was at.
To create a truly "invisible" suit, they said, would take:
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