[geeks] paint that retains polarisation?

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 11:28:24 CDT 2008


Francois Dion wrote:
> Is there paint I can buy at home depot / lowes / whatever that has
> high retention of light polarization? I know of Krylon aluminium
> paint, but I'd like to find something I can paint with a roller and
> that dont look out of place on a wall.
> 
> I know about the paint from those fancy "home theater specialists"
> places, but I am not paying $400 for 1 gallon.

http://www.goosystems.com/index.php?cont=home is "the" paint to use, but 
it's the $500/gallon area for top coat, and $129 gallon for bottom coat.

You might try finding one of those retractable projector screens. It 
seems to me I use to see fairly large ones in the ~$100 range at used 
office equipment stores. We used to play Halo on XBox this way and it 
worked pretty well.

I did a bit of looking, but I can't figure out what is in the paint to 
make it more friendly to a projector. It looks like it just needs to 
reflect light, so a semi-gloss or gloss might be fine?

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