{"id":242525,"date":"2026-08-11T05:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/lying-mirror-uses-structured-surfaces-to-conceal-optical-information"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:28:29","slug":"lying-mirror-uses-structured-surfaces-to-conceal-optical-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/lying-mirror-uses-structured-surfaces-to-conceal-optical-information","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lying mirror\u2019 uses structured surfaces to conceal optical information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lying-mirror-uses-structured-surfaces-to-conceal-optical-information2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mirrors normally reveal what is placed in front of them, even when their curvature distorts a reflection. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have introduced a different optical concept: a \u201clying mirror\u201d that hides information carried by an input image and transforms it into a misleading, ordinary-looking pattern at the output. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-76488-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The all-optical system combines a reflective mirror with an optimized structured diffractive surface. Instead of using a computer to digitally alter an image, the lying mirror performs the transformation through programmed light diffraction and passive light-matter interactions. Once the diffractive surface is designed and fabricated, the optical transformation that hides the input information requires no digital computation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirrors normally reveal what is placed in front of them, even when their curvature distorts a reflection. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have introduced a different optical concept: a \u201clying mirror\u201d that hides information carried by an input image and transforms it into a misleading, ordinary-looking pattern at the output. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}