'Seeing' through paint
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 08:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- When light passes through materials that we consider opaque, such as paint, biological tissue, fabric and paper, it is scattered in such a complex way that an image does not come through. "It is possible to see the light, but not the information," Sylvain Gigan tells PhysOrg.com. "We wanted to create a way to see the information through opaque media."