We take for granted, today, that the Universe is transparent to light, and that the light from distant objects can travel unimpeded through space before reaching our eyes. But it wasn't always ...

When a light beam of time-independent intensity hits a transparent object, the light does not get absorbed but is scattered by the material -- a phenomenon caused by the unitary property of the ...

Light would then bounce back and forth between the two mirrors, passing through the light absorbing surface multiple times. But it isn’t quite that simple. For such a device to work, the front mirror ...

But infrared light passes right through clear objects and scatters off reflective surfaces. Thus, depth cameras can't calculate an accurate shape, resulting in largely flat or hole-riddled shapes ...

For example, if a beam of light passes through a piece of glass, it will slow down as it enters the glass and then speed up again as it exits. Those changes in speed alter the timing of the waves.

Learn about how light is transmitted through different materials and how to create ray diagrams to show light transmission with this guide for KS3 physics students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

"A light wave can enter and exit the object, but will never pass through the medium on a straight line," Rotter said in a statement. "Instead, it is scattered into all possible directions." With ...

Robots and other automated systems have always had trouble visually gauging the 3D shape of transparent objects, like those made of glass. A new system addresses that problem, by using a laser to ...

Caltech scientists have invented an ultrafast camera that is capable of taking 1 trillion frames per second of transparent objects. The invention comes after the… ...

Due to the deflection of light rays on the transparent medium, 3D imaging an object using traditional vision methods based on triangulation produces large measurement errors.