Is liquid crystal shutter glass the same as electronic shutters in cameras?

The change of state in glass is not instantaneous, as the charge applied progresses through the thickness of the medium - so it's a very quick fade, and then the reverse as the charge dissipates. In chip design, the receptors are simply biased to be closed, and then released to become active and that allows very fast light capture. In the case of glass, it's a physical process that occurs, rather than an electronic one.
 
Right. The electronic shutter of sensors is just a switching on and off, not a separate physical entity.

However, I think that the electronic neutral-density filters, like in the Sony FS-5, is liquid crystal.

So was the Tessive Time Filter, which Red bought and turned into its Motion Mount. The less-than-instantaneous switching is used as a feature, not a bug --- actually it is tightly controlled to various effect --- to correct a problem most of us forget we had: "temporal aliasing" (see the Tessive website for explanation and demos).

The quantum film that Invisage was working on, but never finished, had something in common, because the photosensitive, organic coating is separate from the photodiodes below, and it's why the sensor was going to have global shutter, even if the photodiode grid below it had a rolling read-out. The organic sensor due around 2020 from Panasonic may be basically the same thing, and I wonder if it can offer control of the timing of the fade-in, fade-out, so that tessic temporal antialiasing would be possible.
 
So could standard liquid crystal shutter glass be used as an electronic variable ND? I know that it won't have the multi-coatings or optical clarity of pro filter. The name "stutter glass" leads me to assume that it would interfere with motion blur and cadence.
 
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