http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/ Engadget Comments for The transparent desktop optical illusion http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
(e.g. take photo with the lid shut, take a photo with the lid open and an all-blue desktop background, then merge everything that's not blue)]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
Take a picture of your screen. Set it as your wall paper and take another picture of your screen with the new 'wallpaper'. Then display the second image as your wallpaper and take a picture of that screen...

Continue for the full 'infinity' effect...you'll dazzle co-workers with your creativity! Promotions will only be hours away!

My boss laughed and then commented that I wasn't working hard enough and had too much time on my hands.

Oh well.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
(rofl)]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/ I took a swing at this once a couple years ago on my old Compaq laptop (Compaq...what was I on?). It IS rather difficult. I never got it to look anywhere near as nice as that though, the edges didn't line up nearly as convincingly, and this guy/gal has seemingly adjusted to accomdate for the width of the frame. Neither of which did I do, but the screen was of such horrible quality you could barely tell anyway.

Nice art project.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/1-Screen shot my coworkers desktop with everything minimized.
2-Make that their background.
3-Lock their PC to show only their background.
4-Enjoy watching them try to double click on a locked screen.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
All you have to do is mount a camera on a tripod, so it absolutely wont move and take a picture with the screen out of the pic. Then, keeping the camera in the exact same spot, edit the picture so that it looks good to the eye, then take the picture again from the exact same spot! TADA!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
Evilbit, when I first saw this post, I instantly looked for your submission on the Daily Gadget, but it was gone. I'm glad you posted it.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
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One bad thing about this without the icons is a bunch of idiots will start trying to see if they could stick their hands through the screen thinking they will touch whatever behind and there is nothing I hate more than dirty oily finger prints on my screen.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
http://img202.exs.cx/img202/8081/oqodesktopsm5ss.jpg]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15766162@N00/7471513/]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/This way is by far the best; it is three dimensional, real time, and you can even put your hand through and actually TOUCH whatever is behind!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://lr2.com/archives/2005/03/25/transparent-screens-a-howto/]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
Well I have to agree. My experiments so far didn't really succeed. I get everything right, but I don't get that really transparent feel, because the colors of the picture are not good enough.

So I was wondering : in what way should I correct the colors in the picture that will be used as desktop wallpaper?

]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/2. Printscreen
3. Paste and save as wallpaper
4. Right click on desktop -> arrange icons by -> untick show desktop icons
5. Watch them try to double click on My Computer / My Documents]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/
http://idisk.mac.com/jidnet/Public/dbook-transp.mov]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/24/the-transparent-desktop-optical-illusion/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM