Da_bang80
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They've been talking about things like this for a couple years now. I believe one example was a military camouflage unit that had thousands of tiney receptors that captured light from one side of the body, and displayed the image on the other side. I don't know whether anything came about from that idea. But it'd be a cool idea.
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And then James Bond drove it and went voom and STUFF BLEW UP LIKE IN THE WAR AGAINST TERRAH!
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I'm sorry, but is that a man or a woman wearing it?
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quote: The photograph was taken through a viewfinder that uses a combination of moving images taken behind the wearer to give a transparent effect.
Looks like it was the camera, and not the jacket.
Indeed. The coat is using a "retroreflective material" with the image projected onto it. This material basically sounds like a movie screen with extra technobabble.
The concept is like piping a camcorder image from behind a flatscreen TV onto the TV, and claiming the TV is thus invisible.
Alas, no "Insurrection" suits yet.
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It's all derived from Project Yehudi in some form or another, which begs the question how far along the military is in R&D of exotic camouflage techniques.
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My understanding is that it's most like the blue/green screen technology used in film. I don't think it's at all designed for use as camouflage. It's made so that people who want to see "through" it, can.
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I saw Nemesis on Thursday night (It opened here on Thursday) and well, I haven't posted anything cause I'm still mulling it over. There is so much I want to say, but at the same time, so little.
Was anyone disturbed by the 'can cloak while firing weapons' aspect of the Reman "Scimitar"?
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Not really. That's always just been an issue of power distrubution. Obviously, the Scimitar simply has some major badass power-generating capability.
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