Invisibility

Invisible paint.

Send me $1000 and I will gladly send you a pint of it. :wink:

Re: Invisibility


You will need something which either bends light rays around itself, or something which "reads" the image behind it, and "projects" that image out 180 degrees ahead of it.

Watch _Chicken Little_ and you'll see a camoflage plate in action.

Bending light is much harder, so with current human technology you will probably have to perfect a camo plate of some type.

Someone in Japan has already made a suit of some type which projects images from behind it, but it's pretty crude at this point.

Good luck,

r979, i'm not sure a camo plate would work. the invisibility suit has to act like a pane of glass, not a video screen that projects the scene behind it. things don't stretch & shrink as you walk by a display window, but they do deform as you walk past a tv screen.

You're right. It's going to need a computer to compensate for distortions. I never said it was going to be easy. Do you have any other suggestions?

no serious suggestions. on the facetious side, i'd consult with a famous illusionist, say David Copperfield if he's available. if he can make the Statue of Liberty vanish, a human being should be easy.

seems more feasible to look for a work around--to seem invisible, instead of actual invisibility--starting with the question of why someone would want to become invisible.