Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Optical Camouflage technology

Is it possible to make an invisibility cloak similar to that of Harry Potter's? The answer for that question is Yes. The scientist have been working on optical camouflage technology to make you invisible. Until now they have managed to do it for one side, that is you will be invisible for those who are in front of you. They are using a screen, camera, projector and a powerful computer to achieve this. The screen which you should wear is similar to that of a theater screen which reflects the video. The high definition video camera captures the images in rear side and transfers it to the computer. The computer feeds the projector with your background scene so that you appear invisible atleast when viewed from front side. The computer which is used for this purpose should be an extremely powerful one and should feed continuous images to the projector. The images should also be real in order to resemble the world around you. But when viewed from other angle only camouflaged coat will appear. So you need to be careful. I have some images depicting this technology. A few are..


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