Predator cloak -- here already?

CNS Sarajevo · Post by **CNS Sarajevo** » 2003-07-16 11:23am

This is astounding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 777111.stm

Yuri Prime · Post by **Yuri Prime** » 2003-07-16 12:01pm

hmmm... needs a little work, but it looks like they're on the right track.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-16 12:01pm

Old News. Unfortunately, it requires a camera behind the person, and a projector in front of him, to work. It's impossible to use it as camoflauge. I see it being used in the operating room, such as projecting an x-ray onto the patient's body or something.

A Big Flying Fish · Post by **A Big Flying Fish** » 2003-07-16 12:32pm

It would be useless as camoflage (see the picture, has a nice green tint to it), but the medical use sounds outright funky. would make for much smoother operations as well

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-07-16 12:59pm

UCLA is conducting research for the US Army.

You can also read about what the Quartermaster Corps has to say about adaptive camouflage uniforms.

Frankly, that photo looks like a cross between a power ranger and a painball outfit, but I just work here...

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-07-16 09:09pm

jegs2 wrote:Frankly, that photo looks like a cross between a power ranger and a painball outfit, but I just work here...

LOL! The helmet almost looks as if it was added in Photoshop. There's something weird about its appearance.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-07-17 12:47am

Just wrap a towel around your head. There, instant camo.

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2003-07-17 12:50am

Darth Wong wrote:
jegs2 wrote:Frankly, that photo looks like a cross between a power ranger and a painball outfit, but I just work here...
LOL! The helmet almost looks as if it was added in Photoshop. There's something weird about its appearance.

I'm definetly seeing that too, Mike. It definetly looks out of place or too large, and askew.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-17 01:37am

Darth Wong wrote: LOL! The helmet almost looks as if it was added in Photoshop. There's something weird about its appearance.

A lot of the Objective Force Warrior stuff is photoshopped, and that guy is near certainly in front of a blue screen.

h0rus · Post by **h0rus** » 2003-07-17 09:48pm

Vorlon1701 wrote:Old News. Unfortunately, it requires a camera behind the person, and a projector in front of him, to work. It's impossible to use it as camoflauge. I see it being used in the operating room, such as projecting an x-ray onto the patient's body or something.

Yeah, you must have lifted that idea from the article. They listed it too.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-07-18 12:24pm

Wit some fine tuning it could work, like if they took a plasma screen, made it a hell of alot thiner and felxable and then fitted TINY cameras into so the projection was from in the suit rather than outside.....or something along those lines.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-18 01:13pm

Dorsk 81 wrote:Wit some fine tuning it could work, like if they took a plasma screen, made it a hell of alot thiner and felxable and then fitted TINY cameras into so the projection was from in the suit rather than outside.....or something along those lines.

And you'd get fried from the enormous heat output...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-07-18 01:15pm

Dorsk 81 wrote:Wit some fine tuning it could work, like if they took a plasma screen, made it a hell of alot thiner and felxable and then fitted TINY cameras into so the projection was from in the suit rather than outside.....or something along those lines.

You may as well use a varient of active paper for that.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-18 01:23pm

Vorlon1701 wrote:
And you'd get fried from the enormous heat output...

Not to mention becoming a huge beacon for any form of thermal system. There's also the matter of weight and the weight of the power supply.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-18 02:11pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Vorlon1701 wrote:
And you'd get fried from the enormous heat output...
Not to mention becoming a huge beacon for any form of thermal system. There's also the matter of weight and the weight of the power supply.

I'm just concerned about making it out of that experience in one piece, not cooked well done

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-07-18 02:54pm

If its far enough into the future to be able to make something like that, who knows, maybe they'd find a way to overcome the heat aspect.
Thats a big maybe though.

Korvan · Post by **Korvan** » 2003-07-18 04:45pm

I think the person would only only be "perfectly invisible" when viewed from one particular angle. The further you'd get away from that angle, the more distorted the camo would be.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-07-18 06:10pm

Here's some ways around problems currently around adaptive camouflage.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.0 ... sible.html