JTM³ Posted September 16, 2006 Posted September 16, 2006 Is it physically possible to generate the type of holographics as seen in Star Wars?
DaveC426913 Posted September 16, 2006 Posted September 16, 2006 Well, Carrie's a smidge older, but a good coat of makeup should do it. Oh, you mean the technical part...
insane_alien Posted September 16, 2006 Posted September 16, 2006 i've seen holograms that look a hell of a lot better than the starwars holograms. then again the ones i seen hadn't just been beamed across the galaxy in a few seconds.
JTM³ Posted September 18, 2006 Author Posted September 18, 2006 Well, Carrie's a smidge older, but a good coat of makeup should do it. Oh, you mean the technical part... LOL.....umm, yeah... i've seen holograms that look a hell of a lot better than the starwars holograms. then again the ones i seen hadn't just been beamed across the galaxy in a few seconds. Ah, but were they "free floating" or enclosed in a half-sphere with some rotating mirror thingy? Would you happen to have a link? I'd still be interested...
insane_alien Posted September 18, 2006 Posted September 18, 2006 enclosed in a tube. looked damn cool never the less. i seen them in reallife so i don't have a link
Sayonara Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 whoa, i found this is that for real? No.
Y-S Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 How ya know? Well, I don't see any evidence or statement or anything that supports "no" lol?
Sayonara Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 How ya know? Well, I don't see any evidence or statement or anything that supports "no" lol? Because it is on YouTube, as opposed to the Journal of Applied Physics.
Y-S Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 Ya I know but I mean, what if it's for real? Ya never know...I think it's prolly fake too...
Sayonara Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 I suspect that if the technology to produce such holograms exists, it is considerably much bulkier than the device in that video. Although that is not intended to detract from the quality of his effects.
Y-S Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 holograms prolly does exist, they just don't want to let people know or either not ready to annouce it public........there's prolly more than holograms in the world than what you, or anybody thinks
Sayonara Posted September 19, 2006 Posted September 19, 2006 Holograms do exist. This thread is about projected volumetric holograms, which are more sophisticated.
JTM³ Posted September 19, 2006 Author Posted September 19, 2006 Holograms do exist. This thread is about projected volumetric holograms, which are more sophisticated. Ahh, I thought that's what they were...I searched wikipedia for holographics and such and found that term. So the Star Wars type holograms are "projected vlumetric holograms"? Back to the OP question: Are projected volumetric holograms physically possible?? No one has directly answered that yet..... Thanks
Y-S Posted September 20, 2006 Posted September 20, 2006 projected volumetric holograms......u mean like, holograms turning into a real thing?
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted September 20, 2006 Posted September 20, 2006 No. Three-dimensional holograms with volume, in contrast with two-dimensional ones that just change at different angles.
JTM³ Posted September 20, 2006 Author Posted September 20, 2006 OK...so are they physically possible??
Sayonara Posted September 20, 2006 Posted September 20, 2006 Kind of. In Star Wars the holograms appear to be a "free standing" light projection, with only the outer surface of the object/s rendered in a semi-translucent state. Given that the projector is usually mounted on a droid or what have you, that the light beam from the projector is visibly coming from one direction only, and that there is no apparent display medium or means of controlling where the hologram appears (even though the light beam is divergent), it is quite a fanciful setup. We do have the capacity to make volumetric hologramatic projections, but afaik only within a specific medium and not in the air. There are also two-dimensional laser displays that allow the projection of a touch-reactive interface using nothing more sophisticated than a spray of mist as the "screen" - it won't be long before that technology is adapted for 3D displays.
labcoat Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 Yeah, which is why i am certain that the video - cool as it may be - isn't real. (Plus, I would be thrilled if I could just lay my hands on the kind of camera you would need for this type of thing ...)
BobbyJoeCool Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 I think I've seen one of these... it was a toy at Burger King (I used to work there) It was an enclosed sphere with a hole in the top and the bottom... you put something in the bottom, and looked through the top at the right angle and it produced a hologram.
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