BMW designers like to experiment with futuristic variants of appearance of cars of the future and the other day they have presented the next masterpiece. The body of the car iX Flow entirely covered with panels of electronic ink, which change their color and brightness on command. It looks very impressive, but as acknowledged by the authors of novelties – expensive, complex and totally impractical.
In technical terms, the entire external surface of the iX Flow is considered a single pixel, which can change its color from white to dark gray, with a number of halftones in the transition. It can’t display complex patterns, you can’t display text, and multicolored images are out of the question. All the beauty from the video is created by the fact that the coating consists of several sets of panels, and the signal to switch between them is distributed with a specially selected delay.