Comments on: Scotch Tape Makes Frosted Glass Transparent!?!

By: lksdjf

lksdjf — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:15:26 +0000

Can’t tell if troll, or just really stupid..

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:39:17 +0000

Woah, Yes it works and its very strange! haha fun though

By: Jac3q

Jac3q — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:55:49 +0000

Heheheheheh! This one has definitely elicted some funny comments. Keeping eyes on employees? Hmmmm, the mind boggles ;-)

By: joseGregorio

joseGregorio — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:17:29 +0000

That is great! as said above you have to love youtube! you can find almost anything there! I will try this and get back to you guys with some pic!

Thanks

Jose

By: brendan

brendan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:49:17 +0000

yes it works. it’s called a ground glass. the light going through a camera lens, reflects onto the clear side of the glass, and the camera focuses on the frosted side which the light has been projected on to. with the right distance between the frosted glass and the lens and the camera, the camera will focus past the frost and onto the clear. but when the lens focuses the frosted side is what will create the blur….

By: Matt Rude

Matt Rude — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:52:03 +0000

So dose it work, has anyone tried it?

By: Mircea nunti

Mircea nunti — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:12:33 +0000

Who doesn’t love this Youtube ? You can find lots of crazy things people experiment. The last one i enjoyed was the “rice experiment”. Pretty cool.

By: shaunjudy

shaunjudy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:09:42 +0000

This trick will work. I use to do this at my old job to keep an eye on my employees. I think it like putting a piece of glass on the surface of water.

By: fas

fas — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:32:03 +0000

People do claim all sorts of crazy stuff to work but sigh it doesn’t work that way. Once there was this whole convincing article that you can unlock your car via your cellphone, utter crap.

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:23:00 +0000

It’s not so much the tape negating the glare, but rather the adhesive on the back of the tape filling in the imperfections in glass, thereby letting the light pass freely.

By: Spamboy

Spamboy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:37:58 +0000

The only way it could work is if it had the same effect as viewing through polarized glass. The imperfections on the surface of the frosted glass create glare — i.e. scattered light. The tape may be negating some of that glare and permitting light of the same orientation to pass together.

By: Chris Jean

Chris Jean — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:33:34 +0000

I’ve never tried it, but I don’t doubt it works.

Frosted glass simply is regular glass with a textured surface to scatter light. So, if you place tape on the glass, it smooths out the uneven surface, thus causing the light to not scatter nearly as much. Think of it as using polish to fill imperfections in smooth surfaces.

It seems that the glass in this video is only frosted on the one side, which is why it works.