Active Camoflage is real?!

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Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 08, 2006 08:37
Joe Redifer
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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 08, 2006 08:46
It' s just a cool video effect requiring projection. Notice that the camera never moves. It can' t. It can zoom, but it can' t, say, walk around the person. The video where they are on the street, the guy is really inside. The background is chroma-keyed behind him and the " see-through" stuff is projected onto his special jacket. Only the jacket reflects, things like his face do not.

There are more simple ways to do this, like wear a green jacket standing in front of a green screen.
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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 08, 2006 21:12
....i bet the USA military have been trying to develop Active Camouflage ever since ' Predator ' came out.....
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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 09, 2006 04:18
Grrrrrr!!!!!!

I want an invisible coat goddammit!!!!!!



Do you think that real-life actie camoflage will be possible in our lifetimes Joe?! Don' t the US airforce use some kind of optical camoflage?!
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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 09, 2006 05:10
all you have to do is step on this
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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 09, 2006 07:29

all you have to do is step on this

Ouch, my foot!



In our lifetime? Hard to say, but I' m going to lean on " no" . And if it was, it certainly wouldn' t be affordable to Japanese high school students. Something real and portable would require a lot of light bending and a LOT of power consumption.
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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 09, 2006 08:10
LOCOPUYO LOL :)

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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 11, 2006 06:25

Only the jacket reflects, things like his face do not.


hmmm, now, a mask using the same capabilities with buttonhole eyes would work in theory, but its effectiveness in rural capabilities has yet to be seen. it almost looks like you are looking at a poor quality cell phone picture of the surroundings, it throws my eye off when i look at it.
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RE: Active Camoflage is real?! - Apr 13, 2006 10:01
Even if we could get a decent picture, this whole settup runs like an overhead projector system, they just made the screen flexible and portable. 10 out of 10 for cleverness, negative several thousand for portability. At most this could be used to disguise a small to medium sized stationary object from long range to sattelite surveillance, limiting it to making a broken down tank look like a largish pile of rubble or a van.At least we won' t have to worry about short-outs during a jump off a bridge in the rain.


it throws my eye off when i look at it.

What exactly did you expect?