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- From: chanson@gagme.chi.il.us (Chris Hanson)
- Subject: Re: Holography NOT from real object
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.063151.13689@gagme.chi.il.us>
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- References: <83828@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Nov18.140545.244@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <Bxx6HE.Iy3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:31:51 GMT
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- In article <Bxx6HE.Iy3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon E. Meyer) writes:
- >>Since the physics of holography are known, why can't one compute a hologram?
- >>In principle, it shouldn't be much more difficult than ray-tracing. Comments
- >>appreciated ...
- >>
- >>Joe Burch jbb@virginia.edu
- >>ITC-ACS
- >>University of Virginia
- >
- >You could, but you have to consider computation time, and it is more
- >difficult than ray tracing, you need to calculate the field of the
- >interference pattern at the hologram plane. Also, when you print out
- >the result, it's easy to get enough resolution, just make it bigger.
- >Reducing it to a size that's comparable to a visible wavelength is
- >another problem altogether. Some use e-beam lithography to accomplish
- >this, but that gets expensive. So it's not around the corner for the
- >average Joe, but many people at universities and research labs are doing
- >it, cause they have more $$ than individuals.
- >
- >jon meyer
- >univ. of illinois
-
- On the contrary, it is available to the average Joe. I don't know how
- many people I've pointed to this article, but check out
- "Computer-Generated Holographic Images" by Dale Nassar in Issue 14
- (April/May '90) of _Circuit Cellar INK_. It presents examples of
- simple holograms that are PLOTTED ON THE SCREEN and PHOTOGRAPHED and
- then viewed as full holograms. The example programs are in QuickBASIC
- for a PC; one of the examples takes 12 hours to plot on a 320x240 VGA
- screen on a 286/12MHz with 287 math chip. Considering as most people
- that want to do 3D have 386's with 387's or 486's... Also, you might
- want to check out "Letters to the Editor" and "ConnecTime" in Issue 16
- (Aug/Sep '90) of the same magazine... more info in there. I hope I've
- helped.
-
- TTFN,
- Chris
-
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