However, there really is OLED clothing. Scroll down this page, http://www.bimbambanana.com to a t-shirt with an OLED graphic equalizer sewn onto the chest. Don’t throw it into the washing machine. A real OLED invisibility suit would be as cumbersome as armor, and need cameras and computing power to project its surroundings. A tube shape around a person would be easiest but even then, how effective would it be? I also think that luminescent or electroluminescent coatings are better candidates for aircraft to reduce shadows.

“I can understand how shadows might be broken on vehicles, airframes, etc, but how do you reduce or eliminate a ground shadow?”

Hi Greg,

I’d imagine some principles of refraction, or use of specially placed materials with refracting/reflecting properties, would help do the job.

Not that I’m an expert in the topic!

Kind regards,
Greg

Well, back in my military days when I was doing it (with vehicles) we couldn’t. So we had to do our best to break up the shadow. The same principals would apply to ships and aircraft.

All I was trying to say, I guess was that total elimination of shadows, silouette, shape and shine are the ultimate goals in cam and concealment.

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they’ve even managed to eliminate that worry in the new generation of stealth aircraft. How? I couldn’t begin to guess; well I’ll make a guess — special light bending paint? Maybe. Or not.

Welcome, new commenter!

I can understand how shadows might be broken on vehicles, airframes, etc, but how do you reduce or eliminate a ground shadow?

Generally, the ultimate goal in camoflage of vehicles, aircraft etc… is to break up all traces of shadows. both on the ground and on the vehicle itself.

“I love Darklore, even though I still haven’t had time to read the entire thing. I read all the articles written by my favorites though and they were awesome!”

Read mine, read mine! Heh.

Sorry for hijacking your blog posting Greg (Bishop). No more off-topic chatting from me.

Kind regards,
Greg

Sorry about that, but you were the first that came to mind with your whooping 1000 votes and I was too lazy to go see who else was winning. Really a mistake on my part because cheating doesn’t really effect that category since whatever cheating has gone on is just a small part of your 1000 votes.

I am still hoping that there is very little cheating and that my votes are due to the fact that I advertise to vote for TDF on almost all my sites with a direct link. I would like to think I am honestly winning.

I love Darklore, even though I still haven’t had time to read the entire thing. I read all the articles written by my favorites though and they were awesome!

No problems, I was just wondering why you singled out the Daily Grail. I agree, it would have been good for more people from TDG to vote in the other categories…I think though that much of our audience are either ‘casually’ interested in fringe topics, or interested in one specific field - so they may not personally identify with a lot of the UFO-oriented blogs/podcasts etc (which the Zorgy Awards definitely lean towards.) I kicked myself for not nominating Michael Prescott’s blog in the ‘paranormal blog’ section, as I think it’s one of the best when it comes to topics of psychical and afterlife research, which fits under the ‘paranormal’ rubric…though most of Paul’s website visitors probably don’t know a thing about it.

BTW, thanks for mentioning Darklore on your blog, I meant to send you a thank you note but (as with most everything in my life currently) it got lost in the mix.

Kind regards,
Greg

“Although, I don’t think I am the only one, the daily grail has over 1000 votes and I don’t believe that many people have voted.”

Hi Lesley,

I take issue with that statement. While I can’t say for a fact that nobody has done some extra voting for TDG, the fact that we receive between 10,000 and 17,000 individual visitors per day suggests that we are more than capable of convincing 1050 of them to go and vote on the poll.

Kind regards,
Greg