Holography is considered as one of the most remarkable discoveries in modern times. Nevertheless for its first decades it seems to be getting forgotten.

Originally stepped up back at the end of the 1940s to improve electron microscopy, it can not fulfill this function and the wish of its discoverer hungarian-british physicist Dennis Gábor. Due to sources of pure coherent light, which are indispensable for optical holography, being not yet available, not even Gábor himself can locate a field of application for this phenomenon. He can neither recognize at that point of time the meaning and the potential of his discovery and with it the influence this new medium would have on our daily lives one day. Nor can he imagine the plenty of phantasms emerging from this phenomenen. Phantasms, which seem to be mostly one step ahead of applied holography.

With the discovery of laser light at the beginning of the 1960s, for the first time ever it becomes possible to record and reconstruct a real three-dimensional image of an object. What once simply starts as a little rainbow coloured picture of a toy train, today finds its applications in a vast variety of different optical and acoustical fields.

It is as remarkable as the phenomenon of holography itself, that it could never prevail as a popular medium like movie, TV, radio, the internet, print media, etc. Especially when keeping in mind all the phantasmatic stories which emerge from this medium. A lot of dreams, hopes and promises that holography never made by itself, but some of them is trying to keep.

blog.holographie.eu accompanies my scientific work on holography, which would like to give holography an attention, that elsewhere is mostly refused to it. It is of course initially interested in based techniques and technologies of holography and how it works. Moreover it is also interested in these upcoming phantasms and their stories arising from possible abilities of holography. Especially against the backdrop of holography seems to be reaching a point, where its possibilities and abilities catch phantasms.

This blog would like to serve as a sketch book for unprotected ideas, of which some maybe become expanded, while others are not haunted any further, but wants to be told and should not be unmentioned forgotten.


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2010-02-18

Compression locus of a simultaneity

Unprejudiced information by redundancy describes an odd viewing pattern which offers any which ever possible view onto an object or a scene, due to any information being available without preselection. This viewing pattern is very comparable to that which is known from holography. A hologram offers an infinitely amount of angles. It looks like that this way of perception, which Olivia Dunham and Doug Carlin experience, finds its genesis in the way of viewing a hologram.

This entry would like to add the term of Compression locus of a simultaneity to the above mentioned concept. The following footage should be introduced to give a visual example, which should make the idea behind that a little more understandable.

The commercial below is entitled Carousel and is directed by Adam Berg. In 2009 it wins the Film Lion Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, which is the most prestigious award in the advertising industry.


Carousel (2009)


Compared to the snippets taken from Fringe and Déjà vu, all the three of them have one thing in common. They project a virtual world in which so much unlimited more than just one angle is available to the observer.
But there is a significant difference between Fringe and Déjà vu on the one hand and Carousel on the other. The commercial by Adam Berg shows a frozen scene. This is a shot of one single moment. Everything that can be seen in this 139 seconds advert happens exactly at the same point of time. There is no prior and no after. The view of the observer moves through the scene just in the dimension of space, not in the dimension of time. This little movie unifies simultaneity in a single place, where different events meld to an entirety. Compressed on a single point. Without gaps, smooth, without increments and without in between.

From an aesthetic point of view and from a point of view of viewing pattern, Carousel reminds more of a hologram than of a movie. Despite the long single tracking shot, which could have been taken from an Alfred Hitchcock movie, it conveys a viewing pattern, that has its origin neither in film nor in photography or painting, but in holography.


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1 comment:

  1. Sven BergerSaturday, February 20, 2010 at 12:41:00 AM GMT+1

    Just a small footnote about Adam Berg:
    He is the younger brother of Joakim (Jocke) Berg, who is the lead singer of swedish band kent (www.kent.nu), for which he directed some music videos.

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