Holography is a technique that records the light field from an object to display a fully three-dimensional image without parallax or perspective. A hologram is created by interfering a reference beam of light with light scattered from the object being recorded. When illuminated, a hologram will diffract light to reconstruct the original light field and the three-dimensional image. Holograms were invented by Dennis Gabor and were advanced with the development of lasers. They can provide a true three-dimensional experience with changing perspective as the observer moves.
Holography is a technique that records the light field from an object to display a fully three-dimensional image without parallax or perspective. A hologram is created by interfering a reference beam of light with light scattered from the object being recorded. When illuminated, a hologram will diffract light to reconstruct the original light field and the three-dimensional image. Holograms were invented by Dennis Gabor and were advanced with the development of lasers. They can provide a true three-dimensional experience with changing perspective as the observer moves.
Holography is a technique that records the light field from an object to display a fully three-dimensional image without parallax or perspective. A hologram is created by interfering a reference beam of light with light scattered from the object being recorded. When illuminated, a hologram will diffract light to reconstruct the original light field and the three-dimensional image. Holograms were invented by Dennis Gabor and were advanced with the development of lasers. They can provide a true three-dimensional experience with changing perspective as the observer moves.
Holography is a technique that records the light field from an object to display a fully three-dimensional image without parallax or perspective. A hologram is created by interfering a reference beam of light with light scattered from the object being recorded. When illuminated, a hologram will diffract light to reconstruct the original light field and the three-dimensional image. Holograms were invented by Dennis Gabor and were advanced with the development of lasers. They can provide a true three-dimensional experience with changing perspective as the observer moves.
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HOLOGRAPHY
These days, 3D movies have become very popular. A 3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth, thus adding a third dimension. The most common approach to the production of 3D films is derived from stereoscopic photography. In it, a regular motion picture camera system is used to record the images as seen from two perspectives (or computer-generated imagery generates the two perspectives in post-production), and special projection hardware and/or eyewear are used to limit the visibility of each image in the pair to the viewer's left or right eye only. However, stereoscopic 3D fails to provide the full 3D experience. While it gives us the sense of depth, it does not give us what is called parallax, i.e. the view of the image does not change with the change in position of the viewer. The way to achieve this is holograms. A hologram is the photographic recording of a light field on a 2-dimensional surface, that is used to display a fully three-dimensional image of an object. The study of holograms is called holography. Holography was invented by Dennis Gabor in the late 1940s, that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1971. The development of the laser in 1960 led to the advancement of optical holography.
The hologram itself is not an image and it is usually obscure when viewed under diffuse ambient light. It is an encoding of the light field as an interference pattern of seemingly random variations in the opacity, density, or surface profile of the photographic medium. When suitably lit, the interference pattern diffracts the light into a reproduction of the original light field and the objects that were in it appear to still be there. In its pure form, holography requires the use of laser light for illuminating the subject and for viewing the finished hologram. Thus, it exhibits visual depth cues such as parallax and perspective that change realistically with any change in the relative position of the observer, thus giving the illusion that the object is present in reality, giving the full 3D experience.
Types of Holograms:
Reflection Holograms Viewed by shining white light on the hologram, with viewer on the same side as the light source. This type of holography is used in credit cards, currency notes, etc.
Transmission Holograms Transmission holograms are viewed with laser light, with the viewer at the opposite side of the light source. They appear the same color as the laser used to view and create them.
Holograms can be used for security purposes, data storage and interferometry. Holograms can now also be entirely computer-generated and show objects or scenes that never existed. A recent application of this is the Microsoft Hololens, which is an advanced holographic platform developed by Microsoft based on Windows 10, that blends the virtual world with the real world. How is it Different from 3D? 3D gives the sense of depth; however, parallax is absent. Holograms exhibit visual depth cues such as parallax and perspective, that change realistically with any change in the relative position of the observer. Thus, when you view a hologram, it appears you are visualizing the real object in front of you.
Thus, the holographic technologies have endless applications as far as the human mind can imagine and has the potential to become an integral part of our lives in the future.
