But a color camera can see transparent and reflective objects as well as opaque ones. So CMU scientists developed a color camera system to recognize shapes based on color. A standard camera can't ...

Additionally, this new “magical” material can also change to a transparent ... translucent to opaque and back. The hope is that this new material could be useful for creating “stealth ...

"By more accurately digitizing transparent objects ... angles interacted with the opaque parts of the scene. The researchers also separately scanned the glass objects in a CT scanner, which ...

Techniques for optical acquisition of physical objects ... non-translucent items. The initial acquisition stage of the pipeline developed at DTU combined both methods, and applied them to scenes ...

Nothing to see here While transparent materials can easily be found for the casing and conductors, the electrodes tend to be naturally opaque. Cui's solution was to make the components so small ...

Two deep-ocean species of cephalopod, an octopus and a squid, can go from transparent to opaque in the blink of ... including looming objects or shadows passing overhead. "This is pretty unique ...

Perching on the surface regolith, the globules are transparent ... of macro-sized translucent glass globules on the Moon confirms that lunar anorthosites are excellent raw materials to manufacture ...

We call these translucent or semi-transparent. Objects that let no light through are called opaque. If objects are transparent it means that you can see through them clearly as light passes ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ... One alternative is tunable glass, which goes from transparent to opaque through the use of nanocrystals and metallic nanostructures.

This makes a one-way window that is matte – it looks opaque ... a transparent matter surface (TMS). Unlike existing anti-glare coatings and films, you can look at or photograph an object ...