In article <5RHPg.943$GO2.607@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, lraszewski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(L. Ross
Raszewski) wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:49:51 +1200, Anybody
> <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >In article <iLqdnauOG6c-pJPYRVnyvg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Wombat-Pipex-News"
> ><wombat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> >> Hi Guys`n Gals
> >> >>
> >> >> Anyone know where to get the colour change film that can be
switched on
> >> >> or
> >> >> off that fits on the glass.?
> >> >> similar to that stuff that goes on special gl*****, but switched
on via
> >> >> electric current.
> >> >>
> >> >> I dont realy want to have permanently tinted glass but it would be
cool
> >> >> to
> >> >> have glass that could be tinted at the prush of a consol button.
> >> >
> >> > I don't know of an actual product you can buy, but I know it
definitely
> >> > is possible. You would need to probably replace the windows in the
car
> >> > with the new glass though. The version I saw was similar to an LCD
> >> > screen that has a layer of electro-switchable material sandwhiched
> >> > between two plates of glass ... although that was a while back, so
they
> >> > may have a newer method these days.
> >>
> >> -----------------
> >>
> >> Hi
> >> Ya thats the stuff I remember seing on a TV show, making it out to be
the
> >> glass of the future.
> >> I also know of a product called "EL Tape" which is basicaly a thin
sheet
> >> of
> >> plastic like material that when a current is passed through it,
causes it
> >> to
> >> glow.
> >> They also make a material like that to.
> >> If you typed EL Tape in EBay search field you can find lots of it.
even
> >> sheets. which would be good for backlighting of Dash pannels.
> >> Or even make some side stripes on a car that glow.
> >> I was hoping that there would be a product that was clear and went
black
> >> or
> >> darkened in the same fa****on.
> >
> >Sticking stuff onto the windows probably isn't the best method - it
> >usually starts peeling off again at some stage.
> >
> >
> >
> >> If you watch Knight Rider on some shots you actualy see the glass
change
> >> colour. so either they know magic or there is that type of product
> >> available.
> >> Maybee its a spray paint.??
> >
> >More likely they:
> > - stop the camera, swap the windows to darkened glass, and
> > then restart the camera
> >
> >or - hand-paint the colour over the windows in post-production
> > frame-by-frame on the film
>
> There's lots of tricks you can pull to make it *look* like the
> windows are getting darker on film; ****ning the right sort of light on
> it, say, with a polarizing filter, will make it look opaque from
> certain angles, and such.
>
> I rather suspect that the scenes filmed from *inside* the car showing
> the window tint was done by the simple expedient of turning down the
> lights *outside* the car.
>
> But check out eink.com for the sort of thing you might look into to do
> this today -- coating the windows with a matrix of this material would
> make a pretty handy way to darken the windows on command. You could
> do the same with an LCD, but I'd be reluctant to try it: the neat
> thing about 'electronic ink' is that it only uses power to change its
> state; if the system cuts out, it will stay in whatever state it's
> in. In an LCD system, catastrophic failure might totally blacken your
> windows while driving.
To solve that problem you could probably have the LCD power connection
around the other way so that "no power" leaves it clear and "power"
makes it dark. :-)
Of course, the easiest way to have "tinted" windows is to do what I do
- have no time to wash the car and and the windows slowly get darker
and darker. ;-)
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