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Invisibility??
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 03, 2009, 09:47:48 PM ---If you filter the light then something like infrared or some other spectrum should be visible.
Or better yet, make the "light-bending" machine operate at a frequency and use the intervals to see.
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This is where the real difference between the methods is. One uses cameras, so you could still see depending on the material that transmits the light being transparent on one side, the other just bends light. So you would have to use light outside of the normal spectrum to see with. Which also means you will be visible in that spectrum. You could perhaps use a sonar system to "see" with?
BuriaL:
A personal device could change the world. If you could bend light you could prolly project new light and bend that to. I imagine having a hi res, prerendered 3D model of a Blue cube instead of what i look like :P
Somehow i dont think well see "sci-fi" devices like that anytime soon. It would be kinda dangerous, i think.
Path:
--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 03, 2009, 09:47:48 PM ---If you filter the light then something like infrared or some other spectrum should be visible.
Or better yet, make the "light-bending" machine operate at a frequency and use the intervals to see.
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Yes, but you'd still be visible in that spectrum as well. You'd have to use frequencies outside of the normal visible spectrum for obvious reasons, which create other problems.
--- Quote from: Sosseres on August 03, 2009, 09:54:49 PM ---You could perhaps use a sonar system to "see" with?
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Wouldn't you be rather be using radar normally? Though depending on the environment, it's one of several solutions that could work, depending on the scale. For large vehicles or crafts this would probably be easier, but these are typically relatively easy to detect without visual anyway. For personnel, radar or sonar seem far too imprecise.
--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 03, 2009, 10:10:29 PM ---A personal device could change the world. If you could bend light you could prolly project new light and bend that to. I imagine having a hi res, prerendered 3D model of a Blue cube instead of what i look like :P
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Seriously, that's more sci fi than science :P
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: Path on August 03, 2009, 10:13:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: Sosseres on August 03, 2009, 09:54:49 PM ---You could perhaps use a sonar system to "see" with?
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Wouldn't you be rather be using radar normally? Though depending on the environment, it's one of several solutions that could work, depending on the scale. For large vehicles or crafts this would probably be easier, but these are typically relatively easy to detect without visual anyway. For personnel, radar or sonar seem far too imprecise.
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I actually think it has promise since there are animals (dolphins, whales, bats) using a similar solution.
Though it doesn't solve the problem of invisibility vs seeing. Each spectrum you "see" in is one that you can be detected in. For military high altitude craft you wouldn't have to block the visible spectrum, just the radar spectrums so visibility isn't as large a problem.
fohfoh:
Doesn't the original one require a static area that doesn't move and covers only it's "circular range" while this one can bend light in let's say an "oval range"?
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