Transparant Bus Project

Dangermouse · Post by **Dangermouse** » 2005-05-15 01:08am

This is kinda neat. Two students in North Carolina, US, hosted an art exhibit called "Roads in Sight." Part of the project involved wrapping two of the campus buses with a photographic rendering of the two main bus stops (assuming a vinyl-like wrapping) so that the buses would blend in with the background at the bus stops. A short blurb about the exhibit is here.

The actual view of the bus in front of one of the bus stops:

Pretty interesting.

Edit: If a mod wants to fix the spelling in the title, I will bow humbly in their presence.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-05-15 01:37am

Now just wrap the buses in OLED sheets that are hooked to cameras on the opposite side of the bus, generating real-time imagery. Oh, wait, that'd be called... lemme see... a traffic hazard.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-05-15 01:54am

That's pretty god-damn nifty.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-05-15 02:51am

While it's really cool that they can do this, it would also be incredibly dangerous in practice.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-05-15 03:11am

The bus looks transparent only from one angle because its nothing more then coated with a picture of the background. Come summer time and it will stick out like a sore thumb even if placed in the right location and right angle.

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2005-05-23 12:57am

Cloaked buses anyone? That has some evil implications...

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2005-05-23 02:54am

Wow, that is kinda trippy, and cool. I want an invisible bus.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2005-05-23 01:09pm

Extremely cool. I wish i had had the idea.

Dangermouse · Post by **Dangermouse** » 2005-05-23 01:39pm

The exhibit has since gone down but originally the idea was to have microphones set up in the two buses at certain seats so that those people could communicate with the other bus. I don't think it was finished in time though.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-05-23 02:26pm

Wow. It's almost like an Amish cloaking device.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-05-23 04:26pm

I glanced at the picture before reading the actual OP, and was excited that perhaps it was a practical "cloak" that simulated whatever background the bus had. Shame it wasn't.

Faabio · Post by **Faabio** » 2005-05-23 05:19pm

Now these kinds of art exhibits i like. Would have been nice to see this in person.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2005-05-23 05:47pm

That's so freaking cool! I feel compelled to do it to someones car...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-05-24 04:27am

xBlackFlash wrote:That's so freaking cool! I feel compelled to do it to someones car...

next on "pimp my ride" when Romulons attack

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2005-05-25 09:08am

I thought it was painted on when I saw it until I read the description... too bad painted on would be even more impressive

EDIT: As for the Pimp My Ride idea... I would sooo do that to our new car so it matched our house and scenery around it, of course that would have to wait until we got a new car and our own house

Edit#2 actually, no I wouldn't. I was saying that mainly because the car would be camouflaged but I realised it wouldn't be camouflaged at night or whenever I went anywhere else, and people would think it was cool and would probably want to steal it even more

Darn that was a cool idea