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In any of our tests, anyway, nobody could tell the difference between the light from FakeTV and a real, operating television. So, even if the burglar knows that FakeTV exists, that is not likely to help him in his evil quest!
For what it’s worth, this was not an “easy” design. For example, we had to design special test instruments to gather the color and intensity variation data from real television, because our professional lab instruments were not sensitive enough. It took a LOT of time to come up with suitable algorithms to emulate the TV characteristics, in all the different sorts of programming that you see. And suitably nuanced. And then it was tough to meet (okay, only slightly miss) the cost target! We used our favorite optical CAD system, ZEMAX, to design the diffuser.
posted by: Raine · 5/22/08
Never knew there’s something like a FakeTV exists.Thanks for the interesting thing Victor.
posted by: sushrukh · 6/1/08
I agree that the fake tv thingy probably wouldn’t stop the persistent burglar.
Why not just leave on the tv?
posted by: artwdog · 6/4/08