Would it be possible to use the iridescent oxidization layer and diamagnetic properties of a bismuth foil to create a full color display by physically morphing the shape of the screen to the angle at which it is being viewed?

I imagine that the images produced would be rainbowy, they wouldn't be crisp, and it wouldn't be cheaper or in any way better than current displays, but could it work?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 12 2012

Great for getting an inthtant hard copy of thcreenthotth. http://fun-pics.com...ocopier,monitor.jpg
[not_morrison_rm, May 18 2012]

[bigthleep], your lithp ith thlipping.
-- Alterother, May 12 2012


// "Dynamic iridethenth" gives hits for squid.//

There's your answer then. A 1500 x 1000 array of small aquaria, an array of electrodes and a little Pavlovian training and you're all sorted.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 12 2012


With proper applicathion of current to the ink glandth, you won't need a printer. Great for getting an inthtant hard copy of thcreenthotth.
-- Alterother, May 12 2012


"Igor, this cuttlefish has run out !"

"Thorry, Marthter, I'll jutht get ten thquid out of petty cath and limp down to the thopth for a freth one … "
-- 8th of 7, May 12 2012


Bun. Jutht Becauth. [+th]
-- Grogster, May 12 2012


I don't know if it would would work but thith thoundth like a thplendid idea.[+]
-- Voice, May 24 2012



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