If you think X-rays and other forms of radiation have a monopoly on penetrating opaque objects, visible light begs to differ. It actually can pass through things like paint and human tissue, which ...

It’s the dream of spooks and teenagers alike: how to take photographs through opaque objects. That’s always been impossible because light is so badly scattered when it travels through an ...

However, a color camera can see transparent and reflective objects as well as opaque ones. The researchers developed a color camera system that's able to recognize shapes based on color.

May 28, 2022: Objects can now be 3D-printed in opaque resin (Nanowerk News) Back in 2017, engineers at EPFL’s Laboratory of Applied Photonic Devices (LAPD), within the School of Engineering, designed ...

The system can't pick up transparent or reflective objects as efficiently as opaque objects, said Thomas Weng, a Ph.D. student in robotics.

Scientists are developing a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak that could hide objects using light. The technique involves disrupting the way that light waves pass through objects ...

Shadow – A shadow forms when an opaque or non-transparent object blocks light from passing through it and reaching a surface on the other side. Back to top. Activities.

It’s not quite X-ray vision, but a way has been found to transmit simple images through opaque objects using ordinary light – and physicists have used the method to project an image through ...