An illusion device, placed near but not enclosing an object of arbitrary shape, manipulates and transforms light scattered off the object so as to give it the appearance of a completely different object.
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Pendry, J. All smoke and metamaterials. Nature 460, 579–580 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460579a
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