Friday, September 12, 2014
Animated Tron-Like Paint Jobs Are the Perfect Aftermarket Upgrade
gizmodo.com: Last year a company called Darkside Scientific wowed us with an electroluminescent paint known as LumiLor that was completely invisible under lights, but glowed with a bright intensity in the dark. And now the company has revealed an even cooler application of LumiLor: Giving a Tesla S \ an animated, glowing paint job.
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I am still a little bit in the dark about what is going on here. There is paint and there is electricity, so the electricity excites the paint and the paint shows up? I am a little confused.
So I can see some really cool uses for this paint in bowling alleys and other places that just neon lights and such. There could be a few use in theatre, depending greatly on the type of show you are producing.
Also is could you change the electrical current to change the paint? Can you get electrocuted if you touch the card while it is in “cool paint” mode? Would this not be horribly distracting driving down the road at night if a car was flashing? I do think that a car flashing might be good for emergency vehicles.
Overall it is very kool, but how useful it is I am still not sure.
The technology behind this idea is pretty cool and I can see why Nascar would be all over this paint treatment However, it seems that this would be a pretty unsafe thing to put out for average drivers. Wouldn't this be incredibly distracting? There has been an argument that electronic billboards are distracting and those are much father away than this paint treatment would be. Imagine if Jimmy John's or Dominos was doing delivery service and they were driving on a city highway. It would be so distracting!
I agree with Adam. It's cool but not too useful.
This is certainly a really cool idea, although I wish the article explained more about how the paint actually works. In the article they link to it sounds like you run a current through the paint to make it light up, which makes me wonder if it has limitations such as what types of surface it can be applied to. Does it have to be on metal or some kind of conductive material, or is the paint conductive all by itself? Also, how does the current get there? Is there some kind of device that's hidden from us that's providing the current? It's pretty clear that effects such as the one with the car would need some kind of device to control the current and program the patterns of flashing lights. It's cool and flashy (although I wish the design was a little more interesting- something following the lines of the car would be cool) but I wish there was more information as to what it actually takes to make it work.
So...who else sees this as a major driving distraction?
The paint/design is cool, and the fact that it lights up makes it better, but with it blinking on and off? That's too much. This would be great if it was a static design while you were driving so that other cars could see you in the dark. But it needs to NOT MOVE. When all the cars get these lights, then it will really look like Tron because the roads will be lit up futuristic looking. STILL, there is no reason for the designs to move. Also, I think that a more stream lined looking design would look cooler than the squiggles that they have now. It just looks like a zebra.
This seems a cool thing but I don't really get how it's supposed to work... I also think it's kind of dangerous for regular drivers and especially nascar drivers... I mean sure, the advertisements would be epic as they fly by but also bright flashing lights are very attractive to the human eye and can be extremely distracting... And that's the last thing a Nascar Driver, driving at around 200 mph, really needs during a race. This idea is great for movies and it kind of reminds me of 'Tron' (I've never seen the movie so maybe I'm making a false reference...) but in reality, it's not safe and kind of a jerky thing... I mean common, when we see someone whose ride is totally pimped up and blasting music to get attention you think "what a jerk". So someone whose car flashes and glows in the dark... need I say much more?!
I’ve always thought about what it would be like to get a paint job for my truck. Whether it be like some racing stripes, or something of the sort. I’ve heard of two-tone paint jobs, where it looks as though the vehicle is changing color which I think would make for a good color type scheme. This type of product takes on a whole new meaning to adding some flash, and shazam to the road. What the video offers is a type of electroluminescent paint, but I don’t think I would do it in the type of style that is shown. Although the fact that it’s programmable allows you to be able to do just about any kind of combination to make the experience of driving a lit up vehicle a cool ride to have. I’m sure there might have been something like this shown in movies, and as it was mentioned before, the effect brings about a Tron-like experience, because who doesn’t like driving with the future.
This paint is super cool. I just don't know if cars are the best place to use it. Imagine you driving anywhere at night and this car passes you with its entirety flashing. And then make it a crowded highway late at night and the driver is inevitably one of those people who zoom around cutting ever so close to everyone around them. I'd get really distracted and probably cause a car crash.
But on the other hand, it just looks so cool! I, like many others here, wish they explained how it worked. The video didn't do anything but show the car flashing from different angles. I want to know more about the different applications of the paint; whether that is the designs, or how it works, or if it only can go on like cars (I want this in the theatre. So much coolness), just tell me more.
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I bet the first thing that goes through any cops mind when they see that is, "he is totally speeding". I wonder how many tickets this gets you and how quickly. It is like how a red car is %50 more likely to get pulled over, a tron car has to be in the vicinity of %400
To those that say that this has to be a distraction while driving, I'm quite skeptical. It's like saying that a light up sign or changing billboard is distracting while driving. Yes, I'll admit that people will definitely rubberneck upon first sight, but there's countless other things that people will turn their head for while driving.
As for the application of this product, there has to be millions. I could see it as being a outstanding aid during a production. One production that immediately pops to mind is Fela! and the "spirit world" scene. This product seems as though it'll be able to replace UV light effects without huge bleeding into the audience as well as avoiding altering coloration in costumes. I'm excited to see where this goes.
I'm incredibly confused by this. This technology looks amazing and I can see it being used in so many places, but cars? Not to mention that the design they painted on looks rather... tacky. A poor Tesla ruined by a strange paint job, in my opinion.
We keep seeing newer technologies used to trick out cars, and I find it incredibly entertaining, especially when you actually see one out on the road. I saw a completely chrome car the other day, and while I did find it cool, I would be so frustrated to be driving behind one because of the distraction and how the light reflects off of them, not really sure how they got approved for the road.
This would be an amazing car to test drive or rent for a few days. Especially in a big city, you would be the talk of the town. And this paint job idea would be great for advertisements along cars so there could be multiple ads going across one car. Technology nowadays is so fascinating. I hope I get to see more advancements like this in the future.
Pretty much like everyone else already touched upon, my immediate thought was, "well this is a giant distraction." People are already distracted enough when they drive, hence cell phone laws, and they don't need something else to cause people to divert their attention when someone's life can be snuffed out within an instant behind the wheel. It is too easy for things to get out of hand, even when you're not distracted! And with something like this on the road, it would only serve to make matters worse by blinding people, causing them to turn their heads and eyes, and making roads even more unsafe then they already are.
Wow this is really cool! I can't believe what people are capable doing these days! I really wish I knew how they did it. I can totally see how this could be used for scenery. It's really a lot like that movie Tron. I can see how it would be distracting though, when you're driving down the street. Maybe they could make it so it only worked when the car wasn't moving. That would be safer. I think the car would be even cooler if it had projectors all around it projecting projections onto the buildings and street and other things around it. Wouldn't that be fun?!
I personally love the Tron theme and always remember the movies and the technology involved. I like the idea of the animated paint job but in this case i don't relate the zebra stripes to Tron. I think if the design was less flashy and more flowing with the shape of the car I think this concept would be used more commonly, as much as spoilers or LEDs. I keep imagining this paint job on the new corvette stingray and cant help but think this would be amazing! Although safety on the road would be an issue due to being a distraction this could be used for looks or shows
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