The Real World Linticular Invisibility Sheet

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Dr. Kapoor met Zombot at Compsai camp probably six or seven or eight years ago. Since then, Dr. Kapoor has written two books and I make a podcast about ologies. Linticular invisibility sheet renders a subject behind it invisible as long as there is an uninterrupted horizontal pattern behind the subject. A company called Hyper Stealth Biotechnology Corporation demonstrated stepping behind what looked like privacy glass in a bathroom,. but then the person completely vanished.

Invisibility cloaks. Transparent frogs. Stealth bombers. Gorilla mischief. Theoretical optical physicist and Invisible Photologist Dr. Greg Gbur joins Alie to chat about light, illusions, secret technology, science fiction inspiration, terrible camouflage, great movies, historical mishaps, and even a few great household life hacks – and why you should go read a book on your porch. Perhaps his book, Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not To Be Seen.

Visit Dr. Greg Gbur’s blogs, Skulls in the Stars and Science Chamber of Horrors, and follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Instagram and TikTok

Buy Dr. Gbur’s book, Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not To Be Seen, on Bookshop.org or Amazon

His 2019 book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics, is also available on Bookshop.org and Amazon

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