Here is the specular component animating.

And what you see there in that tissue section, in fact, is you see that reflector tape.

Smooth surfaces result in specular reflection with practically all of the signal being reflected away from the sensor.

Before the light bulb was invented, people had figured out how to put a reflector behind it, focus it a little bit put lenses in front of it, focus it a little bit better.

Now, if we turn the polarizers around just a little bit, we can actually bring that specular reflection of the skin back in, and you can see she looks kind of shiny and oily at this point.

And in addition, we've actually used polarizers on all the lights just like polarized sunglasses can block the glare off of the road, polarizers can block the shine off of the skin, so we don't get all those specular reflections to take this map.

So, if we use information that comes off of this specular reflection, we can go from a traditional face scan that might have the gross contours of the face and the basic shape, and augment it with information that puts in all of that skin pore structure and fine wrinkles.

But the more the US and authoritarian Arab regimes attacked the station, the more the station became a reflector of some of the radical Islamic trends. In the Danish cartoon case and the recent controversy over the Pope s statements, the station was clearly seen as making the news rather than just covering it.

So we created this genetic algorithm to try this out, we made a model in XL of a multi surface reflector, and an amazing thing evolved, literally evolved, from trying a billion cycles, a billion different attempts, with a fitness function that defined how can you collect the most light, from the most angles, over a day, from the sun.

So I thought of an idea what if we collect the sun with a large reflector like I had been thinking about way back when, when I was in high school but maybe with modern technology we could make a cheaper, large collector, concentrate it to a small converter, and then the conversion device wouldn't have to be as expensive, because it's much smaller, rather than solar cells, which have to be covering the entire surface area that you want to gather sun from.