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'Lying mirror' uses structured surfaces to conceal optical information

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A research team at UCLA has developed what Phys.org calls a 'lying mirror'—an optical device using structured surfaces to hide information from input images. It transforms what's placed in front of it into a misleading, ordinary-looking pattern instead of a true reflection. The work appears in Nature Communications.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-mirror-surfaces-conceal-opt...

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