{"id":221728,"date":"2025-09-11T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-technology-turns-paintings-into-holograms-bringing-art-to-life"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:38:09","slug":"new-technology-turns-paintings-into-holograms-bringing-art-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-technology-turns-paintings-into-holograms-bringing-art-to-life","title":{"rendered":"New technology turns paintings into holograms, bringing art to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technology-turns-paintings-into-holograms-bringing-art-to-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artists are always looking for new ways to create and express themselves. A growing trend is the use of multiple layers of see-through materials, such as Plexiglas, to create paintings that have real depth, transforming two-dimensional images into three-dimensional illusions that feel more realistic and lifelike. But can these layered works be made even more immersive?<\/p>\n<p>A new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.250874\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Royal Society Open Science<\/i>, answers this question by demonstrating a novel process to transform a multilayer acrylic painting into a full-color, three-dimensional hologram. In addition to offering a striking way to experience art, this technique provides a novel method for preserving and reproducing valuable works.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used a painting of a tiger titled \u201cTaxonomy Test 1\u201d by renowned Colombian artist Yosman Botero. He created the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artwork\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artwork<\/a> by painting in acrylic on nine transparent layers of Plexiglas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists are always looking for new ways to create and express themselves. A growing trend is the use of multiple layers of see-through materials, such as Plexiglas, to create paintings that have real depth, transforming two-dimensional images into three-dimensional illusions that feel more realistic and lifelike. But can these layered works be made even more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}