Even if the heat signature cannot be concealed entirely, decals can be placed so that they alter the signature's shape.
And beyond the car companies stand a host of oil, tobacco, banking and consumer-goods firms that plaster their decals on cars and on trackside posters.The amounts of money involved in F1 may seem small change besides the turnover of such corporate giants.
Britain's Ministry of Defence is testing it.Researchers at the NJIT, meanwhile, have developed insulating decals that can be applied to hot objects even firing artillery cannons to mask their heat signatures.
A tank draped with the sheeting and parked in front of a grassy slope displays an image of grass on its exposed side, for example.Another kind of adaptive camouflage is based on flexible plastic decals.
Trail a Yankee's sedan and you'll see family stick-figure decals, bumper stickers and, occasionally, idiosyncratic licence plates.
Decals for china and kitchen ranges are printed with mineral colours and are fired to resist heat.
Decals intended to be applied to windows are printed in reverse order.
Outstanding among his poetic works are Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía (1922; "Twenty Poems to Be Read in a Trolley Car"), Calcomanías (1925; "Decals"), Espantapájaros (1932; "Scarecrow"), Persuasión de los días (1942; "Persuasion of the Days"), Campo nuestro (1946; "Countryside of Ours"), En la masmédula (1956; "In the Masmédula"), and Topatumba (1958).
Decals are made in a variety of ways, depending upon the need to be served.
Meanwhile, Soucy opened his trunk and assembled his self-described "marketing display" at a table outside, with T-shirts, window decals and a five-foot-tall banner inscribed with his slogan.
He said in the lawsuit in Harris County Court that while he waited for the deal to close, he began removing the decals but was told to stop by a salesman who said it "would blemish the vehicle paint" and "the dealership had something better for removal".
