Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The 3D Images And Hologram Illusion Technology

By Melissa Cole


If you are a 3D animator, you are probably familiar with the names like the 3ds Max and the Autodesk Maya. These are among several 3D modeling software that are the tools used to create the stunning visual effects that have taken alleviated 3D visual effects to the next level. The images can be stunning on the wall and TV projection, but the new hologram illusion has taken it to a completely new world.

Slowly 3-D is also coming to general home entertainment systems. The standard technology works with shutter glasses you have to wear, to make a 3-D effect visible. There are also already a few trials from some companies to make the 3-dimensional effects possible without glasses. The problem is that this plus in comfort is a minus in quality and viewing angle. As the development continues, the next big thing is already with us here, this is the holographic illusion.

In order to create a depth illusion, the image has to be projected through a transparent film surface and then into a flat surface behind it. While the film surface reflects some of the light, the rest goes through and is reflected by the flat surface behind the transparent film surface. Consequently, the result is an illusion of the 3D image appearing as a floating object between the spaces. This stunning visual display is what we call hologram.

If there is nothing like that, you cannot see anything. But that doesn't mean there is no holography. Holograms are actually real, just in a slightly other ways most people imagine them. Holograms are like photographs, bound to a medium, for example, a piece of special plastic. The difference to a normal photograph is, that the picture has all the information about the object. That means if you turn the piece of plastic the hologram is on, you'll see the object from another angle, like a 3-D computer model. That also means that the object seems to be 3-D, what can create the illusion of the object coming out of the medium.

That all sounds as a very cool technology for movies and home entertainment. The TV would become like a little box with people doing a play in it, but we have, to be honest: It will still need a big amount of time until these devices can be thrown at the market.

Right now a team of the University of Arizona managed to take holographic pictures of a moving object and could update the picture every two seconds. That's still far away from 24 pictures per second, which makes a floating movie.

This is as a result of the image projection onto the transparent film and a flat surface behind the transparent surface. This phenomenon make the 3D images appear as though they are floating objects on space between the transparent film and the surface behind it hence the stunning visual display that is associated with the technology.

You can Google the two projects I wrote about and you'll probably find a few videos which show you of what I am talking. You'll not see the holographic effect, of course, because it's a normal video.




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