Iridescent headlight lenses - WTF?!?!!!!!!!

[mewki]

This seemed the most likely subforum to post this in.

Okay, I'm going insane from GIS'ing this for literally 30m, w/ every combo of words possible.

If you're unfamiliar w/ what I mean by iridescent headlamps, I'm referring to the actual plastic/glass lenses on the headlamps having a faint colored effect, one that changes color depending upon your angle of view.

I've seen this on ferraris, lambos, and I'm almost positive I've seen this before in real life, so not likely a lambo/ferrari lol.

Any information as to what this may be called, the technique, whether you need glass/plastic lenses specifically, etc would be greatly appreciated. I can supply a pic of a ferrari with this lense (aftermarket lense or lense treatment..) if people are unfamiliar w/ what I'm referring to. It's mindbottling, the amount of time I've spent searching online and haven't found one.single.reference to the damn stuff, the ONLY thing I have to know it exists is a pic of a sweeet black ferrari w/ the lenses, and a magazine (the newest "heavy hitters" - yes, a cheeseball mag, but great pics - has that "sharpie lamborghini, which has these lenses).

any help, I mean just the name of the lense/treatment/whatever would be greatly appreciated, I want to know more but simply cannot find a damn name!!!

[mewki]

[the converted]

That's actually from using a polarizing filter on the camera. If you have a set of polarized sunglasses, go walk around and you'll see some really interesting stuff.

[mewki]

That's actually from using a polarizing filter on the camera. If you have a set of polarized sunglasses, go walk around and you'll see some really interesting stuff.

Soooo, you're trying to tell me I cannot make my headlamps look like that, on any car, ever. Great, just great ;plol thanks a lot, saved me a lot of future searching (for absolutely *nothing*!), that probably explains why I couldn't find a damn thing online for it..

[Looneybomber]

You could paint them with an iridescent additive to the clear?

Ask a bodyshop if something like that exists...and enjoy a reduced amount of lumens.

[mewki]

You could paint them with an iridescent additive to the clear?

Ask a bodyshop if something like that exists...and enjoy a reduced amount of lumens.

was more curious than intending to do it to my z - in all honesty I'm selling or parting it out in nxt couple months (though that + another car = my new one, which'll likely be a TT one).

Lower lumens, sure, but planning on doing an HID swap (kits are sooo goddamn cheap now!!) on any car they're not stock on, and the increased lumens of HID would *way* more than makeup for such a loss (also could be offset by just choosing a bulb color more visually efficient than aesthetically pleasing..)

[the converted]

Yeah, but the coating would scatter light more, and end up blinding everyone else on the road. I don't really know if you could get anything to look quite like that anyway.