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Inside the Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers
MMBK writes "In the heyday of holography, back in the 1970s, there were four schools dedicated to the holographic arts around the world, and five studios in New York City alone. Today, there are only a few left in the world. And no one is holding the candle higher than Doctor Laser."
Do Not Stare At Laser With Remaining Eye.
FermiLab had an awesome holography art show awhile back. There's still some out there. This docu is great though, and Doctor Laser is too. Pretty sweet for a make your own contest.
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Is this the guy who designed my holographic slammer?
Instead of a candle, shouldn't Doctor Laser hold, I dunno, a laser?
the video in TFA was like a cross between laser kenny loggins at the local planetarium as narrated by the gripping excitement that is the announcers of npr. you've got holograms and frickin' lasers, and you still failed to keep my attention. kudos, that took work.
The part where the kid says ouch and cut off his hand was hilarious. The Dr laser should have replied with "im your father " then it would have been the best. Wheres my hologram tv?
This is so cool! He comes off as a Wizard or a mad scientist or something. This is a man who is truly passionate about his art. Wish things were looking more up for him, he seems like a cool, optimistic guy. If I lived anywhere near him, I'd probably try to go make friends with him or support his business.
Too bad nothing came to market from InPhase Technologies. There was supposed to be major promises from using holographic storage technology. I didn't know this before, but according to Wiki, they had some partnership with Nintendo back in 2008.
Life is not for the lazy.
I thought it nice that this was mentioned. The article and the video might not have had the detail you required, but the thats what the google search is for. I've seen holographic images before, and was very interested in how it's accomplished, but it was years ago and I didn't have the resources to look into it further. Sometimes its nice to be reminded of this kind of stuff. For myself, it's led to a night of googling and interesting reading. If its not enough for you, move on to the next article.
How were there five schools of holography "in New York City" alone if there were only four schools "around the world"?
Lasers were first demonstrated 50 years ago (apparently) There's an exhibition of holograms on at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) but if you're too busy to pop in, there's a video of the display here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrGR-f1VNHI&feature=player_embedded
"Half-assed hologram taken"? I wonder if you have seen a real, well-made hologram of a person? They are spooky in their combination of 3D, extremely high resolution (almost infinite, in fact) and absence of motion and color. Nothing else is like them ("death masks", casts of a deceased persons faces, might come closest).
Not the last they gonna continue it just evolved in more than a visual thing. We doing data storage on holograms now.
The way I see it, there are four main problems with holograms. First, they are static. Sure you have slit holograms, or rainbow holograms, like they used in Logan's run, but those are not true holograms. They are stereograms. Secondly, they are not color. This is due to the nature of laser light. It is monochromatic. Third, you can't have mass viewings. Holograms tend to have only a narrow range of angles from which they can be viewed to good effect. Fourth, you can't generate them on your computer. Let me clarify before you start posting links to open source hologram generation software. There is no holographic output device, like a monitor, on which to show holograms. They are all done with photographic film. That means processing, slow turn around, and expense... the very reasons film was ditched for digital for regular photographs.
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I saw a holographic arts exhibit in San Francisco in the late 80s that took up a huge warehouse. Saw some amazing stuff there, sad to see the art form is dying.
Bart: Yo, Dr. S: have you seen Milhouse today?
Dr. S: No.
Bart: OK, thanks.
Dr. S: Wait: did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.
Bart: I will.
Dr. S: No you won't.
Inside the lab of one of the world's last bloggers
He's just sleepan. He's just sleepan!
It's very difficult to play the holophoner
I remember going as a kid 15 years ago to his lab with a bunch of friends and he showed us how to make holographs. I still have one around here that we made of a little wooden choo-choo train. He is exactly as fervent as now as he was then. The place isnt that big but it is very mad scientist like.
In the 1970s there were four schools around the world, and now only a few are left? When you start with four you don't have all that far to drop!
No statement is true, not even this one.
I happen to know Michael Klug, one of the partners in Zebra Imaging. They're still doing holography like they've done for years now. Why do people think it's dead?
On a semi-related note, our family visited the Salador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, recently and they have a cool hologram of Alice Cooper that Dali did back in the '70s. Definitely worth checking out -- though I recommend waiting until their new building opens in Jan 2011.
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My thought was that it would be cool to get a portrait done next time I'm in NYC. Then I went to his website & saw that it's $1800... too rich for my blood. It's still neat stuff he's doing there, though.
As mentioned in the movie, the resolution of a hologram is the wavelength of the light used. With a specially built microscope, you could actually look at the bacteria captured in film, even though your subject might be a macroscopic object.
The image you see when you look into a hologram is a virtual image, like that of a mirror. What's interesting and has to my knowledge never been examined for implications is that there is an invisible but real image behind the film.
Each half of a holographic plate sliced in half still contains the entire image, only at half the size. The halving can be repeated indefinitely, within physical limits. (Incidentally, this is one of several references to holograms made in The Book of the New Sun.)
The most interesting aspect is holography is that each part in some sense contains the whole. There is a theory of physics that postulates that the universe is structured as a hologram. It never gained much traction yet it was never disproven, and its creator David Bohm was a well-respected physicist. Additionally, Karl Pribam is a psychologist who believes that our brains operate holographically, our brainwaves acting as the laser with our neurons as film.
This may indeed be a technology that is simply ahead of its time, virtually useless to us without a much more mature understanding of physics or without the insight of some genius on how to do more with holograms than make eerie monochromatic volumes.
Your brain is not a computer.
i am surprised they didn't ask him about holography in relation to data storage or other non-artsy usage.
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That bastard still hasn't gotten back to me with the prototype I requested for attaching laserbeam to the head of a shark!
I think S.P.E.C.T.R.E. or T.H.R.U.S.H. must have got to him!
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Never been known to fail..."
You know those creeps that when they're caught, their neighbours always go "I can't believe it, he was such a cool, normal guy, and he was so good with children..."?
If you watch the clip past the 8:45 mark you'll see clear evidence that he's producing child holography!
I used to make holograms years ago and got some good results even though my laser was weak and my table not really heavy enough. It is a somewhat expensive endeavor and AGFA stopped making plates so I got out of it. However recently I bought a "Big Ass HeNe laser" from ebay and I am now intrested in getting back into it. Im glad to see some still do holography.
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One really wonders if the only practical purpose of 64bit for these people's vision is only whining to Adobe for 64bit Flash?
I mean, with the exceptional speed gains for networks, 64bit pure operating systems, GPU manufacturers basically hitting what can be achieved in 2D, TB levels of storage on laptops... All they can come up is freaking extra registers and whether their "adobe flash player" comes in 64bit or not. Just the specs of "Display Port" and its future roadmap should enlighten people but they choose to be impressed in 1080P displays, which we were selling as Barco dealers back in 1990s.