>>31979595I'm not ignoring it, I was waiting for you to appear in the thread to address your concerns.
>mirages are incredibly simplistic natural phenomena, and don't let you see something from all angles as if it were somewhere else. you guys aren't understanding my concerns. i am saying a mirage will not make something that is actually at x appear at y from every perspective in every direction at the same time and to the same extent. bend all light going off the ship from all directions, shift it to a new location, and then precisely aim it in the right directions, including in the direction towards the ship, where it has to bend around the ship and still reach the other side without being obstructed, btw, it will be bent back, forth, and then back again that way, first from going away from the boat, then towards and past the boat, then back towards where it came from in the same direction, and then it would carefully dodge the ship to get to the other side. this is all done by a simple mirage? how?) you are not just bending light, you are implying the finest, most precise application of light bending without being able to explain how precisely you are able to achieve it. chuubanite has limits in that it can't use a non-sequitor method to achieve a goal. it has to be done in a way that is actually physically possible.So, first, what is a mirage. Some types of mirages make things appear closer or farther than they actually are. Some rarer mirages can even bend light around a vertical axis, such that the object seems to be off to the side from where it actually is.
This describes exactly what the mirage proposal says: light comes out of boat, it is bent around a single (1) bend (as in this
>>31971423), then it hits the observer. And all the light coming from the boat is bent thus. That's it. It is a relatively complex phenomenon, but it can be fully encoded into chuubanite glyphs, in my opinion.
the cognitive approach is basically just hypnosis. Careful attention or particular willpower can probably see through it, and I don't think it has any strange aspects.
You suggestion is basically the same as the refraction approach, but instead of the light's path bending, you say the light teleports. It's effectively the same thing, but it requires an aphysical event to occur.
>>31979631As I mentioned, I think you could possibly combine the two. Slight hypnotism would help camouflage possible defects in the mirage, and hypnotism on its own would require to affect the perception of the target very strongly without the mirage. Together, they work better.
