This is the final instalment in the series discussing what holography is (and isn’t!). In my previous post “The Inception of Holography”, we realised that traditional holograms are very much like photos - once recorded, they preserve the 3D nature of the object. And just like...
In my previous post, What holography is NOT, we learnt which technologies are often mistakenly called “holographic”. This time, we’ll start exploring what holography actually is. But before we dive in, we have to recognise the problem: Holography is not a single effect or method - it...
While preparing for my TEDx talk in 2014, I decided to google several terms that I knew from academic publications and books: “Holography”, “Holographic Display”, “3D Holography”. I was surprised to see that on several pages of results, there were only two or three links...
A policeman stops a student throwing pavement tiles into the river:- Excuse me sir, says policeman, what do you think you’re doing?- Come, officer, have a look. Every time I throw a square, a circle comes out! Isn’t that fascinating?! We humans got deeply accustomed to...