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So... I modified my webcam to pick up light only in infrared.
(all the blue shit is trees. for some reason, my dog shows up that color, too.)
the potential applications of this are... practically none. i've heard you can use it to look through women's clothing, but i've been watching this thing for about six hours and not one naked lady has walked by. science fucks me over again.
ironically, the flourescent lights in my room emit hardly any infrared. so not only is this thing ineffective at seeing in the dark, I've made it ineffective at seeing with the lights on, too. BEHOLD, HUMAN INNOVATION!
Also outside my window. Rafters are oddly luminous gray. That criss cross pattern on the window is the shadow of some latticing outside. that shadow isn't visible to the eye. I guess my window blocks more IR than it does visible light?
That faint diagonal blue streak is a strip of film negative--the same material that I used to make the visible-light filter inside the camera.
This acrylic scarf has red and white stripes on it. It appears white in IR.
A prescription note from my doctor. What did she prescribe? Even if her script were legible, the ink is invisible here.
Human eyes appear eerily black. Is this related to the fact that the human eye doesn't pick up light in the IR spectrum? I dunno. Probably. SCIENCE!
(all the blue shit is trees. for some reason, my dog shows up that color, too.)
the potential applications of this are... practically none. i've heard you can use it to look through women's clothing, but i've been watching this thing for about six hours and not one naked lady has walked by. science fucks me over again.
ironically, the flourescent lights in my room emit hardly any infrared. so not only is this thing ineffective at seeing in the dark, I've made it ineffective at seeing with the lights on, too. BEHOLD, HUMAN INNOVATION!
Also outside my window. Rafters are oddly luminous gray. That criss cross pattern on the window is the shadow of some latticing outside. that shadow isn't visible to the eye. I guess my window blocks more IR than it does visible light?
That faint diagonal blue streak is a strip of film negative--the same material that I used to make the visible-light filter inside the camera.
This acrylic scarf has red and white stripes on it. It appears white in IR.
A prescription note from my doctor. What did she prescribe? Even if her script were legible, the ink is invisible here.
Human eyes appear eerily black. Is this related to the fact that the human eye doesn't pick up light in the IR spectrum? I dunno. Probably. SCIENCE!