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Monday, October 31, 2011

 Invisibility tiles can cloak any shape

Oliver Paul at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany and associates have revealed a practical way of making invisibility cloaks of any size and shape, The Physics ArXiv Blog reports.

Creating a cloak that exactly follows the shape of the object it is intended to hide is hard because curve cloaks are hard to make, so they approximated the shape using flat facets.

Read more: http://goo.gl/YzQKW

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