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I know the bit you've described regarding the "Retro-reflective Material"(.pdf), but the University of Tokyo page also says it involves this X'tal Vision thing that somehow involves projection only visible on the material. I don't think the site was clear on it, so I don't get how it is involved. Look at the pictures, though.

I know the bit you've described regarding the "Retro-reflective Material"(.pdf), but the University of Tokyo page also says it involves this X'tal Vision thing that somehow involves projection only visible on the material. I don't think the site was clear on it, so I don't get how it is involved. Look at the pictures, though.

I know the bit you've described regarding the "Retro-reflective Material"(.pdf), but the University of Tokyo page also says it involves this X'tal Vision thing that somehow involves projection only visible on the material. I don't think the site was clear on it, so I don't get how it is involved. Look at the pictures, though.

That's probably part of the technology they used, mentioned in a previous story about "Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls". Otherwise, I don't see how they would be able to project an image on a material without the projection appearing around it.

...but in oc-s.mpg, when the sphere is in front of the person demonstrating it, presumably with the light sensors also in front of the individual, why does eir face disappear?

"Camoflage" seems to be a mistranslation from the Japanese original. Would someone who reads Japanese well please read the Japanese version of the site and try to clear this up?

I submitted this this morning, got rejected .. life is not fair! ;)

anyways, here are the videos, it does look pretty cool:

Video 1
Video 2

I submitted this this morning, got rejected .. life is not fair! ;)

anyways, here are the videos, it does look pretty cool:

Video 1
Video 2

Not only are they working on making you invisible, they're also working on your cyborg/holo-bot. The pictures up right now got a right laugh out of me, but personally I can't wait until the day I can assasinate my enemies invisibly from a rooftop with my own Fonzie (from Happy Days) holo-bot. Ayyyy.

You utter imbecile!

Go read the fucking research and complain only after you have accomplished better.

Watch this, read this, plus go at least read the fucking article:
"'This material allows you to see a three-dimensional image,' Professor Tachi said."

And also read this.

You utter imbecile!

Go read the fucking research and complain only after you have accomplished better.

Watch this, read this, plus go at least read the fucking article:
"'This material allows you to see a three-dimensional image,' Professor Tachi said."

And also read this.

You utter imbecile!

Go read the fucking research and complain only after you have accomplished better.

Watch this, read this, plus go at least read the fucking article:
"'This material allows you to see a three-dimensional image,' Professor Tachi said."

And also read this.

Picture

Whoa!! Where's the person on the picture? I can't see him! it's truly magic! ;-)

"How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Really Nowhere At All?"

Otherwise, how would a block in front of you show the static background behind you.

Or more ludicrously, how would a block in front of you show your skeleton? Especially when the skeleton doesn't move with your motions?

Please, we've had bluescreen technology for decades. And we've even upgraded to greenscreen.

Bah...

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Bah...

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I searched around a bit, and found that someone's already done it. It uses the PCRE library along with a camlp4 macro that provides an elegant "match ____ with" construct tailored specifically to regexps. I'm impressed.

sorry for replying to myself i just stumbled on this patch for the linux kernel that could allow the same performance/reliabiliry compromise to linux and i think this could be interesting..

Kernel Mode Linux : Execute user processes in kernel mode

i'll give it a try at home ;)

After googling a bit I found the website of the guy developing it: http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDI A/xv/oc.html

When you read how it's done, its really not that impressive at all - essentially just videoing the area behind him, and then using a video projector to shine it on to him.

As an aside: who is Roland Piquepaille, and how does he manage to get an article in /. every other day?

I also thought this sounded waaay cool, so I quick-searched for Tachi Labs that is doing the research. Good links on that page to further info, images, videos. And such a cool reference 'section' (bottom of that page):

"M. Shiro, Ghost in the Shell, Kodansya, 1991" (link added by me)

With earlier /. reports on the Nausicaa jet, the Akira bike, and now this Cloaking thing (ok, so it's not really matching Kusanagi & crew's wicked cloaking tech in GITS, but still...) ...I don't know what to make of it, but I think it's pretty cool that they get inspiration for their R&D from somewhat 'unlikely' places - and really follow through on those quirky ideas.

Gotta respect that kind of curiosity and dedication.

So. Fscking. Cool.

Personally, I didn't think this was very impressive. Sure, they can program a robot to look cute while it _slowly_ picks up a ball and throws it, but how about catching it?

http://tron.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/TRON/ITRON/home-e.htm l

With high-speed batting robot they can play baseball.

Wake up and see.

Here are the specifications.

I don't know where you got the message, but in its HP, it says "The ITRON Project creates standards for real-time operating systems used in embedded systems and for related specifications.".

So it includes its OS as well as its related specification.

...if anyone's done any work on running kernel modules with user priviledges,

If you're willing to patch Linux, the line between user & kernel space can be easily blurred.

With FUSD, a program can appear to be a kernel module, although it's running in user-space, for more safety and ease of development.

With KML, a user program can be run in kernel space, for more performance and risk of catastrophy.

206 billion isn't enough? I like that graph at the bottom. 10^14 digits by 2010!

(these people actually did the calculation, but don't have much to look at on their site)

The statment "Mac OS X replacing Linux at Tokyo University" is misleading on so many levels, I won't even begin. The discussion has further degenerated around inaccurate speculation. Let's touch briefly on reality:

The University-wide system is described here.

The new system, which includes the Macs and is provided by NEC, is described here.

These are "located in the Information Education Buildings, the Information Technology Center, and the main library" (ref) to be used "for general computer literacy education and programing education".

16% of the terminals will be Windows-based for lectures using Windows or CAD applications. What they replace are a mix of Windows NT and X window terminals (they write "X-terminal", but presumably these are actually linux boxes, not really X terminals).

What this decidedly has nothing to do with is the systems used by scientists, scholars, administrators, and clerical staff at the University of Tokyo. Nor what might be used in other teaching settings. So, the idea that Univ of Tokyo once used Linux monolithiocally is as wrong as to think Linux was replaced by OS X monolithically. -Eric

The statment "Mac OS X replacing Linux at Tokyo University" is misleading on so many levels, I won't even begin. The discussion has further degenerated around inaccurate speculation. Let's touch briefly on reality:

The University-wide system is described here.

The new system, which includes the Macs and is provided by NEC, is described here.

These are "located in the Information Education Buildings, the Information Technology Center, and the main library" (ref) to be used "for general computer literacy education and programing education".

16% of the terminals will be Windows-based for lectures using Windows or CAD applications. What they replace are a mix of Windows NT and X window terminals (they write "X-terminal", but presumably these are actually linux boxes, not really X terminals).

What this decidedly has nothing to do with is the systems used by scientists, scholars, administrators, and clerical staff at the University of Tokyo. Nor what might be used in other teaching settings. So, the idea that Univ of Tokyo once used Linux monolithiocally is as wrong as to think Linux was replaced by OS X monolithically. -Eric

The statment "Mac OS X replacing Linux at Tokyo University" is misleading on so many levels, I won't even begin. The discussion has further degenerated around inaccurate speculation. Let's touch briefly on reality:

The University-wide system is described here.

The new system, which includes the Macs and is provided by NEC, is described here.

These are "located in the Information Education Buildings, the Information Technology Center, and the main library" (ref) to be used "for general computer literacy education and programing education".

16% of the terminals will be Windows-based for lectures using Windows or CAD applications. What they replace are a mix of Windows NT and X window terminals (they write "X-terminal", but presumably these are actually linux boxes, not really X terminals).

What this decidedly has nothing to do with is the systems used by scientists, scholars, administrators, and clerical staff at the University of Tokyo. Nor what might be used in other teaching settings. So, the idea that Univ of Tokyo once used Linux monolithiocally is as wrong as to think Linux was replaced by OS X monolithically. -Eric

Are you somehow recommending a kernel be written in something else than C???

Wow, the amount of time I wasted just by following that link...

I saw this picture with a nice landscape. Decided to investigate and after a bit of Googling it turns out it's from somewhere in Kamioka, Japan. That's where physicists from around the world built this huge toy which they call Super-Kamiokande.
Some pretty impressive pictures, especially when you see that they built many of these to make this, just to fill it with water (warning huge pic, here's a smaller one), and conduct experiments into neutrinos, dark matter, and other cool stuff like that... Wow.

There you go, just learnt a few things, and added Kamioka to my list of places to visit ;)

Wow, the amount of time I wasted just by following that link...

I saw this picture with a nice landscape. Decided to investigate and after a bit of Googling it turns out it's from somewhere in Kamioka, Japan. That's where physicists from around the world built this huge toy which they call Super-Kamiokande.
Some pretty impressive pictures, especially when you see that they built many of these to make this, just to fill it with water (warning huge pic, here's a smaller one), and conduct experiments into neutrinos, dark matter, and other cool stuff like that... Wow.

There you go, just learnt a few things, and added Kamioka to my list of places to visit ;)

Wow, the amount of time I wasted just by following that link...

I saw this picture with a nice landscape. Decided to investigate and after a bit of Googling it turns out it's from somewhere in Kamioka, Japan. That's where physicists from around the world built this huge toy which they call Super-Kamiokande.
Some pretty impressive pictures, especially when you see that they built many of these to make this, just to fill it with water (warning huge pic, here's a smaller one), and conduct experiments into neutrinos, dark matter, and other cool stuff like that... Wow.

There you go, just learnt a few things, and added Kamioka to my list of places to visit ;)

Wow, the amount of time I wasted just by following that link...

I saw this picture with a nice landscape. Decided to investigate and after a bit of Googling it turns out it's from somewhere in Kamioka, Japan. That's where physicists from around the world built this huge toy which they call Super-Kamiokande.
Some pretty impressive pictures, especially when you see that they built many of these to make this, just to fill it with water (warning huge pic, here's a smaller one), and conduct experiments into neutrinos, dark matter, and other cool stuff like that... Wow.

There you go, just learnt a few things, and added Kamioka to my list of places to visit ;)

Of course, Linux happens to be one of those OSes that can be made to near-enough disappear when the application is loaded - it's fairly easy to make linux load the entire application into kernel-space with the appropriate patches. There's a spectrum of solutions with different tradeoffs - the most common is to simply deliberately write your application as a kernel module, but you can also choose to run user processes in the kernel memory space.

Seeing as the application never subsequently context-switches, but can still use anything in the kernel it finds useful, the only wastage you have is memory taken up by any unused code-paths in the kernel that can't be rmmodded out, without the hassle of writing your own hardware-drivers. It's a nice approach for certain tasks.

OK, but there is more interesting info at:

TRON Project Information

and

TRON Web

also in english :)

bb4now,
PMC

Putting more applications into kernel mode is a step along the transitional path to a microkernel architecture. If things like that get popular, then Linux will evolve means to guard them from the rest of the kernel, fairly allocate resources between them, etc.

(One path development might take is to do less checking during each context switch, and more earlier on, when the application was first loaded. If a degree of trust can be statically verified, the app can be safely permitted to run with full kernel privs. This gets into HP of course.)

To play with the concept, here's a toolkit which allows any program to be added to the kernel.

The 1ms page also has some good video, although I might still question the square / circle demo, as it might just as well keep the circle out of the field of view of the camera. Anyway, this page explains that they are achieving 1ms response time by integrating simple image processing with the photodetection circuitry to elimate having to wait for an entire frame from the CCD.

The 1ms page also has some good video, although I might still question the square / circle demo, as it might just as well keep the circle out of the field of view of the camera. Anyway, this page explains that they are achieving 1ms response time by integrating simple image processing with the photodetection circuitry to elimate having to wait for an entire frame from the CCD.

The Movies: Optical Camouflage

Ah, now if only you had used Basque, or try an endangered language, then your clever ploy would have worked.

Check out "Optical Camouflage Technology" at this link. I heard there were some recent improvements made to it to get rid of the green tint. Here is another link.

there's always kernel mode linux if you like to live on the edge!

Who cares about LCD monitors! I want an invisible coat!

For those of you too lazy to search Google for "Japanese invisibility cloak", here is the link that started it and the project home page (with movies).

The objects are NOT truly transparent. They just appear that way due to optical tricks. Basically, they project what is behind an object to what is on the front of it using cameras, projectors, and mirrors. It's a neat idea, and he suggests some useful applications, but nothing like most were expecting upon seeing the pictures. Still, makes for some kick-ass videos.

The Summer Institute in Linguistics has a much more comprehensive list of languages in their compendium entitled the Ethnologue (Available for perusing online.

UNESCO, an agency of the United Nations has compiled The Redbook of Endangered Languages listing many endangered languages around the world.

Another source for those interested in endangered languages is The Foundation For Endangered Languages.

For those more interested in creating languages of their own, or "conlangs" like Tolkien created, might I suggest Langmaker, Mark Rosenfelder's excellent Virtual Verduria (including his Language Construction Kit), and for those interested in Tolkiens' tongues (such as Quenya, almost unanimously considered the most beautiful conlang created) there is the very informational Ardalambion.

Hope those links will help people interested in the topics of endangered and model languages.