The ultimate way to cheat in Poker

[Nockm]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7453

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/DualPhotography.mp4

Watch the video first, much more interesting like that. ( 64MB )

[Ilya]

jesus christ.

i understood about 2% of that article and video

[Superted]

Yeah I read about this.

Well...I won't ever trust partypoker.com again that's for sure.
That's a joke btw

[Sleepy Weasel]

Steve Marschner, quoted in that article, was my computer graphics professor

[bloodzombie]

Yeah I read about this.

Well...I won't ever trust partypoker.com again that's for sure.
That's a joke btw

I'm pretty sure that doesn't even make any sense.

[Dameon Angell]

Lol "hey guys, mind if I bring my projector to tonight's poker game?"

[Sleepy Weasel]

I won $80 yesterday/today on pacific poker. Bz you're missing out. I'm on fire. You should watch me and take notes.

[geekbot]

That's really cool. I saw a report on slashdot but that video explains it really well. The card trick is a nice trick.

To explain for the less geeky:

Apparently, light bouncing off an object will follow the same path if the light is reversed. They use that principle to calculate the reverse view of an object as if the camera was where the light source was.

They do this by lighting a scene one pixel at a time from a projector, recording it in a camera, and then "reversing" the light paths. After they reverse it, they can recreate a "picture" from where the projector sits.

In the last demo in the video, they show they can recreate a view of the face of a playing card from the projector's view, even though the back is turned toward the actual camera.

Being able to use this for movie tricks sounds like a great idea but it seems limited right now since it requires 1) still objects and 2) darkness so that the projector light isn't washed out.

[K2Grey]

Well, I'm sure this will be unlikely to actually help anyone with getting extra money from casinos given that they probably spend more effort on security than any government :P

[NaiLed]

I won $80 yesterday/today on pacific poker. Bz you're missing out. I'm on fire. You should watch me and take notes.

what stakes do you play on?

i just stick with $0.15/$0.30 :|