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Home / Tutorials / Scotch Tape Makes Frosted Glass Transparent!?!

Scotch Tape Makes Frosted Glass Transparent!?!

John P.

July 24, 2009 By John P.

Tape-Making-Translucent-Glass-ClearOk. Someone has got to try this and report back if it works! I’m not sure if this is a video trick, or if it really works, and I don’t have any frosted glass to try it on. But according to this guy, if you put some of that clear box tape on frosted glass, you can see right through it.

I really can’t believe this works, but the darn video is so convincing! So again, I’m putting a call out for anyone and everyone who has the ability to give this a try and report back if it works!

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Comments

  1. Jordan says

    October 26, 2010 at 1:39 pm

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

  2. Jac3q says

    August 1, 2009 at 2:55 am

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

  3. joseGregorio says

    July 31, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    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

  4. brendan says

    July 31, 2009 at 12:49 am

    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….

  5. Matt Rude says

    July 29, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    So dose it work, has anyone tried it?

  6. Mircea nunti says

    July 28, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    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.

  7. shaunjudy says

    July 27, 2009 at 8:09 am

    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.

  8. fas says

    July 25, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    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.

    • lksdjf says

      August 22, 2011 at 1:15 pm

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

  9. Hans says

    July 24, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    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.

  10. Spamboy says

    July 24, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    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.

  11. Chris Jean says

    July 24, 2009 at 11:33 am

    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.

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