Forum:Stealth boys

Something just struck me as odd about the concept of stealth boys. To quote the page:


 * It generates a modulating field that transmits the reflected light from one side of an object to the other, making a person much harder to notice (but not completely invisible).

The science at work here is perfectly acceptable mumbo- jumbo. However, it occurred to me that since "vision" basically means "light reflected from objects reaching your retina," and the stealth boy is redirecting most of that light around the user in order to hide them, it seems to me that the use of a stealth boy would affect the vision of the user as much as it does the person trying to see them. Am I misinterpreting something? Hal10k(Leonard Bernstein!) 23:06, February 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * I guessing that, based on the definition, it works by either two ways:


 * 1) It transports the light waves reflected off of you from one side of the "object" (the potential viewer of you) to the other, past their eyeballs
 * 2) Or it reflects the light that hits you from one side to the other, somehow "bypassing" you and simply shows what behind/underneath/past you (depending on the potential viewer's point-of-view)

Since people basically see by their eyeballs absorbing light reflected off of the things they are looking at, the technology of Stealth Boys is to somehow interrupt the flow of light from its source, to you, then to someone else's eyeballs.

Also it may be designed to allow the reverse to happen: by NOT blocking reflected light from other things. But even I can see the loopholes and design flaws, so...... I don't know. Just know it's a video game and that somethings cannot be explained :)--Black Artist 00:15, February 3, 2011 (UTC)