Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: djheater
A reflection, is REFLECTED light.
A monitor functions by GENERATING light.
You could potentially make an LCD with a reflective backing, so that it would reflect when off, or through clever engineering get the reflective background to be viewable through the LCD.
I agree about the reflecting light and the monitor generating light.
But is it possible that using the generated light, that you could portray the same characteristics of a mirror that enables it to display a reflection when an external light strikes it.
No.
The disconnect is that you're not thinking of the particle characteristics of light.
The reflection you see is because no light is absorbed by the mirror it is cast back to your eye.
The monitor, generating light, does not reflect it, it is already pouring out it's own stream...
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: djheater
A reflection, is REFLECTED light.
A monitor functions by GENERATING light.
You could potentially make an LCD with a reflective backing, so that it would reflect when off, or through clever engineering get the reflective background to be viewable through the LCD.
I agree about the reflecting light and the monitor generating light.
But is it possible that using the generated light, that you could portray the same characteristics of a mirror that enables it to display a reflection when an external light strikes it.
No.
The disconnect is that you're not thinking of the particle characteristics of light.
The reflection you see is because no light is absorbed by the mirror it is cast back to your eye.
The monitor, generating light, does not reflect it, it is already pouring out it's own stream...
Much better answer. :thumbsup:
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: her209
Take a picture of your mirror.Originally posted by: zoiks
So if I see a surface that is chrome colored, bright chrome that is, I'm sure to see my reflection somewhat distorted it may be. It is still there.Originally posted by: her209
Just because its chrome colored doesn't make it reflect.
I'm just looking for a more concrete answer I guess if it is indeed not possible.
The problem is that I wouldn't be taking a picture of the mirror but rather that of the reflection. So that will not work.
Originally posted by: zoiks
Not in flat panels though. I was thinking something like a software that renders or paints chrome that would mimic a mirror when you looked at it.
Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
are people really that vain?
i don't want to see my real-time mug on my monitor.
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
are people really that vain?
i don't want to see my real-time mug on my monitor.
It might help you clear that booger from your nose.
Originally posted by: djheater
A reflection, is REFLECTED light.
A monitor functions by GENERATING light.
You could potentially make an LCD with a reflective backing, so that it would reflect when off, or through clever engineering get the reflective background to be viewable through the LCD.
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Iono what kinda software is out there, but it would involve a webcam and pushing the video feed onto your desktop.
Correct! Angle of incidence = angle of refraction. You are also correct in that simply putting a video recording device will not have the same mirror effect as provided by your viewing angle example.Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
The light that hits a mirror is reflected at the same angle on the other side of a normal. Imagine a mirror divided into millions of tiny square pixels.. Each of those pixels reflects many different colors of light, because it's being hit by that light from all directions. If your eye is at 45 degrees on the right side of that pixel, you see what's 45 degrees on the left. Someone looking at the pixel from the exact front will see a different image. That's impossible to do with a display. Each pixel would have to contain infinite cameras and be able to transmit light in infinte directions.