"Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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. ;-)
Cool Ill try that one. ;-)
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