They are using optical fibers to transport what is "behind" an object 
to what is in "front" of it with carefully routed fibers, making it 
seem you're looking through the object. How well the alignment in the 
"front" matches the "back" is responsible for the integrity of the 
image, of course. I saw a show on the science channel or similar, it's 
incredible, like the Predator in the Schwarzenegger movie.

Also, they're using a very reflective foil to reflect surroundings, 
which works pretty well out in the woods or an open field.

The best optical military trick I've heard of is like the LA plant 
trick mentioned below. My dad has always told me about a german 
ball-bearing plant that the allies would pound into oblivion all night, 
only to find it operational the next day. The germans had flown over 
their own town in blackout conditions, and photographed the light leaks 
from chimneys and missing roof tiles. This they reproduced in a cow 
pasture out side of town, which the allies were blasting away at.

Jim

On Oct 22, 2004, at 8:50 AM, jimt wrote:

> On 10/21/04 11:37 PM, "Doug in Calif" <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET> wrote:
>
>> I heard rumor the military was working on a cloaking system that had 
>> tiny
>> light receivers on one side of a military vehicle and light emitters 
>> on the
>> other.
>> The vehicle could see everything to one side of it and broadcast the 
>> same
>> image on its side.
>>
>> Cool huh?
>>
>>
>
> That technology comes up every few years as changes in technology 
> become
> available.  The testings have also included "chameleon" materials that 
> are
> electronically controlled to shift color and pattern.
>
> The best use of light tricks has to be a british magician that the 
> britt
> army put to work in world war two.  He used mirrors and light tricks 
> to hide
> an air base in the desert well enough that the germans couldn�t find it
> until they were right over it and then it was to late for them instead.
>
> Second best has to be hollywood tricks done for airplane plants in the 
> LA
> area.  Buildings patterned and linked together in a way that at night 
> they
> vanished from sight from the air and then a couple miles over lights 
> used to
> look like building and road patterns like a mfr plant would look like.
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