This optical illusion stops you seeing new cars
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Bizarre swirls, mind-bending patterns, and crazy squiggles are just a few of the optical illusions we use to help stop “Selfie Spies” from stealing our car designs. They make it extremely hard for eyes to focus on the outlines. Our latest 3D “Brick” camouflage, inspired in part by popular online illusions, uses thousands of seemingly randomly placed black, grey and white cylinders in a chaotic criss-cross pattern.
Cameras can't focus on this pattern!
_immediately shows a perfectly focused video of the car with that pattern on the road_
He said the naked eye can't focus on this pattern
Sunny Liu Ford Focus?
Yep your right!
It hides all the curves so competitors cant steal them
drev1 Competitors would need to have people actively hunting for these cars across the country. Its like finding a needle in a hay stack.
Its a ford, it'll blend in regardless, why bring attention with a pattern??
MtnXfreeride 😅😄😆😭😂
Lololololol
MtnXfreeride Exception being Ford GT40 & Mustang.
Just like this video: Marketing. In reality, it just looks like some idiot bought a late model ford hatchback and wrapped in an ugly pattern.
wooow new model
looks like a prius super high tech really cool
Fords marketing company should off themselves
I don't understand. "Don't look at our car, but here's video of people looking at our car."
Alex Becker it tells a lot where ford is coming from....
That's an old car ya dingus, if it was a new one then what's the point of the camo?
everyone in this video missed this, the point of the camo is so that cameras cannot pickup the body lines, styling, and geometry of the car very well. in michigan i see atleast 3 of these a week and its all to prevent competitors from copying styling and design, LOTS of other auto companies do this as well
Alex Becker ahaha :D
did he seriously use Microsoft PowerPoint to make that pattern?
Kyle Rabine 2010 edition
Kyle Rabine You'd be surprised how good of an image manipulation software it can be.
LOL Publisher is also part of office and that has better scaling.
This is the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time. Guess he's never heard of adobe illustrator.... What a rookie. If this joker can get hired I should have no problem getting a graphics job with only 4 classes under my belt lol.
He's a vehicle prototype engineer not a designer
the funny thing is, this makes no difference in being able to see the car for me. LOL.
Wildcat It just became Uglier - Congratulations Ford... ;)
Same lol
its about the competitors, not you
Wildcat true
Chillmaster you're absolutely right, funny thing is who wants to copy ford? 🤣
someone was paid big money to design that pattern too lol...
MtnXfreeride and he made it in PowerPoint as well...
could have just painted it black and everyone would assume its just like every other Ford out on the road
Mimicry > "Camouflage"
MtnXfreeride ikr xD
MtnXfreeride And way uglier than original it got! Plus it gets MORE attention for being that ugly!!! What a FAIL. - Human kind are a numnut breed sometimes!!
Cerulean Fox oh no why did Mimi cry?
nah it didn't work. I could see every curve on there, and in the long run it just makes the car stick out more. how much did you pay that idiot, and can I get a design job, since no qualifications or realistic expectations are needed.
loverlei79 Exactly!!
loverlei79 Im wondering if it smoothes the body lines for still photos
Wow you guys are really stupid
only wish i could have seen the car they were talking about!
Lol
2018 ford focus
Dre Day its easy to see
r/whoosh
The very small shapes of the current camouflage merge into the one color and don't hide the forms of the car.
It would be more effective if the camouflage will consist of big figures/shapes (like army camouflage), but not small.
Tutorial on how to print things you dont need
luke hp savage af
luke hp the sad thing is that I almost instantly got it was a Forg Focus, and you could also see every bumb and all shapes... This foil just does nothing.
Jayplay 2510 yes, but it makes you wonder.
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I think the pattern brings more attention to the car than it would otherwise
Edward D. Indeed, quite so
Just paint it Vanta black so that others can’t see any 3D features to the car
Harvey Ong that thing is fuckin expensive to get
This is so stupid, unless you want the atention, trust me , no one would notice a hatchback , the car already has the best camouflage
Sharkiuli there’s people out there.
Design with Powerpoint?
An2nio Productions photoshop? Illustrator? Tons of other programs that would come to mind before powerpoint
I didn't know Ford made dishwashers
Brandon Carlson Neither did I
every1 asking the same question, what is that. not because its optical illusion, but because it looks amazingly stupid and ugly
The idea behind it is the same as "dazzle painting" in World War II. It confuses HUMAN sight, but not radar. I don't think it ever saw the battlefield.
dazzle was used alot thank you very much espicially for hospital ships like HMS olympic
how did they manage to record this video then?
they says it can't focus on naked eye not smartphone, this is why it is hard for people to keep staring at it for a long amount of time
Jtora They were specifically talking about people using their smartphones to capture photos of it. If this pattern was only meant for the human eye, then why bother wasting money creating it when someone could just use their smartphone and take a picture.
You guys should really consider getting a proper designer in there... That looked like he was designing those graphics in Word '07.... '07? REALLY? if you're not going to bust out with some PS at least update your Word...
Spartikiss its even worse.. it's PowerPoint lmao
the design isn't supposed to be pretty or for commercial use. The purpose of the camo is to make it difficult to redesign the car from picture references during test drives of prototype models, as the pattern hides hard edges and curves. it doesn't matter what program he's using, this dude is probably an expert in visual arts and for this project the versatility and functionality of powerpoint was probably best suited to designing the camo. why do you think you're smarter than someone hired by one of the worlds leading car manufacturers?
fanrco the only thing PowerPoint is best suited for is making presentations.
Adam Murray not true at all. many people assume just because they're semi proficient at Photoshop that makes them an expert graphic designer. i personally believe a good graphic designer is capable of using any program with the suitable tools to achieve their project goal. PowerPoint has many excellent tools for mathematical/geometric design that hardly anyone uses. just because you only use it for presentations doesn't mean that's all it can do. obviously if this guy is a graphic designer and he's using it, its because it offers something that Photoshop doesn't support with the same ease of use. look up art made with powerpoint or any Microsoft office program, its fascinating and inspiring what people can make with its tools.
fanrco
No.
If you want to hide youre cars, use Vantablack or Black 2.0
Saw a bmw m5 painted in vanta black a couple of weeks ago. You couldnt even make out where the fenders start
Well, yes it would work, but it would be extremely expensive, and also last time I checked Vantablack was still licensed to only one person. Also, it still doesn't fix the issue of drawing more attention anyway.
lol black 2.0 costs £12 a bottle and works damn well
On a sunny day, it would absorb so much heat, cooking the person inside.
big die but think of how cool it would look! also they could probably just put it on the important lines and leave the flatish bits unpainted
It wasn't Vanta black bud. If the person told you it was then you got lied to and believed it. To cover a car in Vanta black would be impossible... You have to grow Vanta black onto an object it's not a paint or anything like paint. You did not see a BMW with Vanta black.
"It prevents a camera from focusing on the car" shows last few clips focused on car driving on the road
Please tell me i can get that as my wallpaper for my phone.
Yea this doesn't work in daylight. Low light only.
What if you didn’t put anything on it, painted it white, stopped having cameras pointing at it, and stopped driving it in populated areas? No one would blink an eye
Drives around in new, not yet published car, with a design on it to prevent people from filming it. Invites camera team over. Genius of the year award
My eyes are too sharp.
QRS3C273 how do you not cut your eyelids then?
Yeah because I want to know what ford is putting out next. Like it'll be different from the last.
republic1001 and as if anyone would copy those amazing designs 😂
It's a Ford Focus. Just paint it normal and drive it around. The 'camo' is what makes the car stand out. No one is going around thinking to themselves 'oh geez, I hope I get a glimpse the new focus prototype if it's out there somewhere'.
If you would drive the car without this special design on public roads, it would blend in perfectly with all the other vehicles. This way, it sticks out and everyone looks..
So many different cars on the road now...may as well just drive it without "camouflage", nobody will notice. It's called hiding in plain sight.
The ford designer should have made the pattern much bigger. Although his pattern might work when sitting within 30cm of the design on a computer screen, people viewing a car are usually a lot further away and cant make out the detail. WW1 and 2 ships were not painted with tiny intricate patterns their patterns were on a scale proportionate with the ship size. Google dazzle camouflage to get an idea of how this car should have looked if the designer knew what they were doing
If you made it a normal color, most people wouldn't know it was a new design
The thing is, there is a big chance that nobody would regnonice a new Ford on the street, but like that everyone knows its a new design...
So a car is hidden under camouflage to prevent it being identified, yet everyone asks 'what was that’, yet you can't tell them because it could potentially spoil the surprise, yet you also want them to know what it is so they can buy it?
And I thought deciding between cake or ice cream for dessert was my hardest choice.
For anyone wondering the average price for a vinyl wrap on your car is $2500-$3500.
That hilarious that they invested so many people, hours, and dollars into something that:
A. Didn't serve its function
B. Looked like garbage
C. Will never be used again
Elon musk's making electric cars and firing them into space and Ford is using PowerPoint to print out patterns. Cutting edge right there.
The concept behind this is "Erlkönig". In germany you see a lot of new cars like that on the autobahn.
Dazzle patern camouflage would probably work better.
And who cares? It's a modern Ford. Almost all modern cars look almost identical to each other. If it's different enough to actually be unique a bit of camo paint won't be able to hide it.
For everyone complaining that this is useless: all car companies do this to prevent other companies from finding key details in the car. Obviously you can still see it, but the whole point of taking a picture is to find features that appear helpful and add them to your own car design. On top of that companies also buy each other's cars, break them down, and copy features into their car. In my opinion its a pretty lucrative business.
Tip: instead of using black n white patternwhich is uniformly applied to the whole car, use a brightly colored mismatched pattern with weird shapes...in this clusterfuck of colors n pattern it will b more difficult to make sense of the true design... Human eyes are smart n great at picking up patterns
Funny thing is, most people would probably completely ignore the car had it not had this pattern on it...
I have yet to meet anyone in the world that is so hyped up on seeing the next vehicle prototype made by anyone.
Hell, most of the time the changes from one year to the next (even generations) are to so small you wouldn't even know it is a prototype car unless it has some stupid body wrap on it.
Purpose of pattern to prevent us seeing the true design of the car proceeds to show them installing it on said car
95% of people wouldn't bother to take a pic if there wasnt this obnoxious paint on it
They could have make it look dirty, this is just increasing people's interest in it by this design
Lol could you imagine a road car wrapped like this, speeding past a cop, they wouldn't know what make or model it was without calling in the tag
I'm pretty sure they used the same camouflage techniques that the navy used during world 1 or 2 don't remember which one
If the car didn’t have that pattern then maybe people probably wouldn’t even notice it.
This screams the Streisand effect. You bring more attention to the car with the funky pattern than you would if you painted it with a boring colour that blends in. Also, I think a ford Focus is one of the last cars anyone will take a selfie with if they found it on the street.
So, to avoid people to look at this new car, you put a foil on it with such a unique and uncommon pattern that everyones going to look at it out of curiousity?
Do this on every new car cause im sick of these modern cars
A very old technologie, that is used since ww1 for ships.Its well known for car guys here in germany ,and these prototype cars that have such a camoflage are called "Erlkönig" here in germany, named after a figure of Goethes poem "Der Erlkönig" .
Saying it doesn't add weight is like saying ''adding water to your glass won't add weight''.
That's the dacia sandero!!!
But now when we see that pattern we're going to know it's a prototype which will gather even more attention on top of that strange wrap.
Shame Ford europe does not realise the ONLY TIME THIS WORKS EFFECTIVELY is when you add cloth covers like many other car manufacturers do, like i remember when they first released the 2015 mustang in america they had a few with black cloth over the front and back so you couldn't see the dead giveaways of what the car is.
I live by death valley so I get to see prototype cars all the time, I don't usually take pictures because I know they don't want them taken
so now you know for sure which cars have design features you can steal
There’s the whole “vantablack” color that strips 3D perception. But that’s just an idea.
If you put camouflage stickers on it everyone will look at it. But if you leave it stock no one will care and no one will look at it
You can still make out every curve and body line. Even on this video, which was filmed with a camera. I don't understand what this "camouflage" is supposed to do.
Great pattern because of the hard whitedots in the texture, it should be easer for 3d Designer to Precise remodeling the Positions of the Bodyshape by using stereo reconstruction.
Wouldn’t it make it more visible? No other cars have a paint job or wrap like that.
I saw this on a new 2015 mustang 4 years ago on the freeway. I knew why it was wrapped like that but cool to see the design up close
Just take the badging off it. It'll pads for anything new. You can still see the body lines.
They wouldn't need to have the camoflauge if they had their own car design. Not one that looks like any other car. So then they would only have to worry about emblems
It's like trying to blend in at a vegan convention dressed up as a big ol pot roast
Secret to building a prototype car that you can keep hidden from the public, build a Ford.
1:47 whooa, is it a bat-mobile? omfg what could it be?? I mean it could be anything, a new bentley, a semi-truck, even a new freaking hummer, you can never tell with this camo..
But of course you can, you can see what it is and will be, with 80% to 90% accuracy. There is really little to no point in doing this.
Why not just drive it? Non-car guys will just think "Heh, that's a car"
Test pics taken with a 650D. That's the camera I have! Suprising to me that they use a lower range Canon DSLR in this "test"
If I painted my house like that, would anybody actually be able to discern where the house stopped and the yard began?
You could park that car in a crowded area for several months and nobody would bat an eyelid, they'd just think it's a normal ford. Slap that stupid pattern all over it and instantly everybody is looking at it and trying to figure out what it is. Couple that with telling everyone about the pattern with this video, and there you go you've done the complete opposite of what you're trying to achieve
Congrats Ford. Reusing 100 year old camouflage techniques. INNOVATION!!!
Ford: "They'll never notice this car with strange paint!"
They did this at Microsoft when the XBox One was being created. It doesn't work. This is WW-II technology, if you can call it technology. Two camera shots, and you have a stereoscopic model, you can directly render into a 3d model. It's not that hard.
just cover the car in vantablack vinyl stickers, way easier than paying a designer to come up with some pattern in word art
99% of people wouldn't take a picture of this car if i had a normal colour
None of these do anything for me. I can see all the same lines I normally could. Especially because people are starting to wrap their cars like this more and more so the eye is becoming totally desensitized to it.
Because deargod imagine the terror that would follow the terrible event of civilians seeing the new Ford Focus
Honestly I feel like more people look and take pictures with this design. Why not just test it with a black color?
Is there an optical illusion that stops this from showing up in my recommendations 24/7?
Looks like every other car except for the vinyl that draws more attention to it
Am i the only one that still can see everything on those cars ? I see them a lot in person and i dont get the hussle to hide it. I can still see everything on them...
And yet someone snapped an un camouflaged 2018/19 focus in Portugal
Why no mirrors? You could simultaneously avoid 3D scanners from apps like 123D
if they left it they way its supposed to look like 99%of people would know/care
Literally could have done his job... he tried to make it seem like he came up with something revolutionary lmao
Well, that was easy to see the body lines. If you actually want something to blend, the best option is to make it look like every other car on the road. Also make 2 crappy/ugly versions with the same suspension but horrid body. Make people guess which one is actually being tested while youre axtually testing the suspension, motor, drivetrain and weight.
or just send it out. If there's no camouflage on it, people will asume it's an old model
nobody in the world would ave known that was a prototype if not for the pattern. paint it blut and you have the most mundane looking car on the street
Need to keep this prototype secret i know we'll post a video on how we keep it secret and what car it is...
*GENIUS!!!*
1:45 The sexyness of that Buick
Reminds me of my middle-school days when I was quite crafty with Microsoft Power Point.
The all new 2018 Ford Un-focus
But does it erupt in flames during rear end collisions? Cause you know, there was this one car...
I saw a prototype car yesterday for the first time in real life... And suddenly I get a promoted TH-cam video from 2 years ago about this very thing?
Very suspicious.
used to work for a car test company they got mad because the (whats your honest opinion) slot I put ugly as hell and suggested a permanent paper bag front.
My time-traveling friend tells me in the future they make incredible camo! He didn't see a single ford anywhere.
I knew it was a Focus, it's because of that iconic front design.
If I'm being Honest I think this just attracts attention because no one will think twice if they just see a regular car but if you see this it will be confusing and get your attention