Transparent Desktop Wallpaper Illusion

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/' target='_blank'>http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/</a><br /><br /></div>This is a very interesting visual illusion done with a digital camera and a laptop, where you take a photo, make it your wallpaper, then move the laptop into a position whereby the wallpaper matches the background:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/7234920_0aed5a3cd2_m.jpg" /><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/">rest of the gallery</a> has some other examples. Anyone here want to give it a go? ;-)

[Kursplat]

I like the different levels of overlapped elements in this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/7350188/in/set-180637/).

[Jason Dunn]

I like the different levels of overlapped elements in this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/7350188/in/set-180637/).

Wow - that's cool! You can tell the artists from the hacks. :lol:

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

I like the different levels of overlapped elements in this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/7350188/in/set-180637/).

This one is a tough one! Need to adjust for perspective correction for the slanted notebook.

[jeffd]

want to know what would really be badass? If notebook makers built a camera into the back of the lid so that a realtime feed could be passed to the desktop.

[Jason Dunn]

want to know what would really be badass? If notebook makers built a camera into the back of the lid so that a realtime feed could be passed to the desktop.

Totally useless, but cool anyway. ;-) Actually some Sony laptops have the camera in the top for videoconferencing - it rotates which direction it faces. It's a cool idea actually that I wish more laptops would have - even if I've never really needed to use it. :lol:

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Heh, I'd rather they not have one and make the notebook cheaper. =P

Or make it an add on like some IBM Thinkpads.