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  • 2014-01-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Car Have Paramagnetic Paint That Automatically Changes Colors? (en)
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  • A widely shared video supposedly features a car harboring some special property that seemingly allows it to magically change color, cycling through red, purple, blue, green, yellow and brown exteriors in a matter of seconds: However, that video is a creation of digital manipulation, the tail end of a tutorial showing how to use Adobe's After Affects video editing software: Likewise, a similar video posted in September 2014 that seemingly shows passers-by reacting in amazement to a color-changing automobile was nothing more than a staged set-up shot with an ordinary car, with the results afterwards altered using Adobe After Effects' Change to Color option or something similar: The following short demo shows how simple it is to digitially alter the hue characteristics of anything in the frame of a video that displays a unique color: However, although these particular color-changing car videos may not be real, the phenomenon they display may be a somewhat plausible one. Back in 2007, motoring publications reported that Nissan had developed a process for applying a polymer coating (referred to as 'paramagnetic' paint) to automobile exteriors that could instantly change the perceived color of the car to any desired hue through the application of electrical current: As far as we know, neither Nissan nor any other major automobile manufacturer has yet offered 'paramagnetic' paint as an available feature on a production-line vehicle, but the days of color-changing cars like the one shown in this video may not be so far off. Sightings: Some viewers have been fooled by a video of a major automobile manufacturer's seemingly demonstrating a ready-to-go version of a mood paint concept, but that video was just a 2012 April Fool's Day prank from Peugeot UK: (en)
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