The hood of this car appears damaged when viewed through polarizing sunglasses
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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The car has a “paint protection film” that gives a rainbow effect through polarizing sunglasses. The installer probably creased the film where it appears damaged.
https://www.revantoptics.com/blogs/the-lens/why-youre-seeing-rainbows-in-car-windows
wait, is this a post in this sub that is ACTUALLY mildly interesting? wow
normally it’s just like “my reeses cup had two wrappers” or some such nonsense
Maybe It’s damaged like how sometimes you can’t see the cracks in your phone screen unless you shine bright light on it
GR, cool car.
Special glasses that make other people’s cars look slightly shittier.
What your probably seeing is a badly applied polarizing filter to the glass
That’s bonkers. It looks dented.
“We have one that can see!”
It’s very surprising to see a GR Corolla on r/all. The ppf pattern isn’t the only interesting thing here…
That’s polarizing.
*Ba dum tss*
Those are stress points on the polarizing filter applied on the hood.
What the
polarized light can be used to make material stress and tension visible, you can see that effect on the headlights, the rainbow colors show stress areas from the injection molding process as the plastic cooled down, or somehow the paint job is messing with the polarization of the reflected light showing the distribution/orientaton of pigments in the paint
That’s why they are using such things when examining cars – it allows to see some obvious crashed cars who were restored.
If you are concerned source a reflector line light or panel. PDR Line Board
https://youtube.com/shorts/W7qmY6l11ZQ?si=PtSo1WSJ_Q_XjZR7
Please tell this was in Los Angeles because it could be my car lmao
GR Yaris, my favorite cat of all time!
Polarized*. They have already been polarized. They are not in the act of polarizing. Wrong tense.
not really