Invisibility, the Old Fashioned Way - Neatorama

While the magic of Photoshop has made it easier than ever to doctor photographs to portray the improbable or impossible, nothing quite matches doing a double take in real life.

British art student Sara Watson parked a donated Skoda Fabia car outside her art studio and painted it so that, from just the right angle, it looks invisible. Shadows on the ground and the slight contours of the car give it away, but other than that, it's as if it were draped with Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility or a cloaking device from Star Trek.

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by tempeh.

Seems unlikely, especially with the photoshopped picture accompanying it.
No other pictures from other angles to demonstrate its authenticity?

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ted, there's another shot of it here, if you need further proof that it's real/fake.

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This is Skoda Felicja !!!

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This is Skoda Felicia !!! This is not a German car, this is Czech car.

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she's cute!

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i can confirm its real, shes on my course at uni!

i've been addicted to neatorama for a year or two now - its totally bizarre to see something/someone i know pop up!

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What I liked about that article, was that it referred to her, as a him.

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Actually this is the same principle I believe that the scientists working on the invisibility cloak are using. Their cloak uses some form of cameras to project the image of what is behind the subject onto the front of the subject, so it looks like you are seeing through it.

Very neat.

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Dude, where's my car?!

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All she needs is an overcast day with no shadows and she'll be golden.

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I have a hard enough time remembering where i parked. very cool!

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Ah! Wish they did the same to all useless cars..imagine a street full of invisible vehicles/.....
ne1 up for dat idea???

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Good way to avoid parking tickets.

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This is extremely cool.

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Super cool! Does anybody else think she looks a little bit like Lyndsey Lohan?

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Larfin: An invisible car would still be material, eg: tangible. You wouldn't avoid tickets. Instead you'd have other vehicles banging into you.

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JOI's sense of humor seems to be invisible.

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i think i'd hit that

and i don't mean the car!

oooooo

she's really hot

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Who needs photoshop when you've got RAW talent? This is absolutely wonderful stuff!

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Thanks, hwang. Although that picture could have been photoshopped just as easily.

My point was not so much to question its authenticity as to question why they would cast doubt on it by accompanying it with an obviously photoshopped photo.

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Here's the converse (using computer camera projection mapping)

http://www.digitalartform.com/assets_c/2009/04/cameraMapping-thumb-512x389-288.jpg

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