Cloak

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:31 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8574923.stm

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:45 am

Nice - good link. (still not convinced it's a cloak - put it's a start!)

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:04 pm

Alex had too much falling over water. Ergo Edit

Post by **Eric Walch** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:13 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
Nice - good link. (still not convinced it's a cloak - put it's a start!)

depends on your definition of cloak. When I understand the article correctly, the German scientists put a dent in a surface and than covered the surface with a special layer so you don't see the dent anymore.

Hmm. This, I invented years ago. Just use plaster to fill up the holes in your wall, than paint over it and the holes in the wall are also invisible.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:19 pm

Eric Walch wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Nice - good link. (still not convinced it's a cloak - put it's a start!)
depends on your definition of cloak. When I understand the article correctly, the German scientists put a dent in a surface and than covered the surface with a special layer so you don't see the dent anymore.

Hmm. This, I invented years ago. Just use plaster to fill up the holes in your wall, than paint over it and the holes in the wall are also invisible.

Just that they skipped the "use plaster to fill up the holes" part.

But on the other hand, their "hole" is so tiny that you wouldn't be able to squeeze any plaster into it in the first place. So Yeah.

snork · Post by **snork** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:01 pm

But it isn't about a hole, but about, errm, vocabulary - the opposite.
Though I think it would work roughly the same with a hole, just that it would not be as impressive.

The picture is upside down, and that had me confused for a while.

I would have thought this existed already for some time. oops.