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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2011-03-04

The illustrated man

The science-fiction movie The illustrated man from 1969 is based on same-titled novel by Ray Bradbury from 1951. The movie contains three of the novel‘s short stories. One of them is The veldt, which forestalls the idea of generating a virtual world in a room already two, resp. four centuries before the holodeck is used in Star Trek.

Circus worker Carl‘s (Rod Steiger) body is covered all over with illustrations, looking like tattoos on first sight, but beginning to move and giving an observer a glimpse into his own future when being viewed for too long. Searching for the woman illustrating him, Carl meets tramp Willie, who gets nightmarish illusions observing the illustrated body.

In his first vision a family lives in a highly engineered house with a children‘s room transforming the children‘s phantasies into a real world. When their parents one day enter their children‘s room they find themselfs in the middle of an african wilderness surrounded by a herd of hungry lions. They ask a psychiatrist for advice, who takes a look around in the room. After the parents threaten their children locking the room, the children allure them into the room, where the parents get eaten by the lions.

Ray Bradbury is also the author of novel Fahrenheit 451, that is published in 1953 and made into a movie in 1966.



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