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Showing posts with label surface. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

POV-Ray 3.6 or Decloaker


Image licensed under Creative Commons by Tony the Misfit

POV-Ray 3.6 or Decloaker: First term belongs to the folks cited in the article below. Second term is our suggestion for the new software designed to "see" the invisibility cloaked surface. (Why a cloaking device really doesn't work...).


Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/1clKYe


FOM: Invisibility Visualized: New Software for Rendering Cloaked Objects and
J.C. Halimeh, T. Ergin, J. Mueller, N. Stenger, and M. Wegener. Photorealistic images of carpet cloaks. Optics Express, 2009; 17 (22): 19328 DOI:
10.1364/OE.17.019328





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Monday, September 21, 2009

Twitface


Twitface: The portmanteau of Twitter and surface and interface. A proposed movable, semi-durable raised surface display for the vision-impaired to enable reading via Braille. The surface responds to code received from their CPU. Not a refreshable Braille display.
See also: Retina chip