{"id":98522,"date":"2019-11-14T00:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/new-printer-creates-extremely-realistic-colorful-holograms"},"modified":"2019-11-17T03:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T11:46:00","slug":"new-printer-creates-extremely-realistic-colorful-holograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/new-printer-creates-extremely-realistic-colorful-holograms","title":{"rendered":"New printer creates extremely realistic colorful holograms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-printer-creates-extremely-realistic-colorful-holograms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new printer that produces digital 3D holograms with an unprecedented level of detail and realistic color. The new printer could be used to make high-resolution color recreations of objects or scenes for museum displays, architectural models, fine art or advertisements that do not require glasses or special viewing aids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 15-year research project aimed to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hologram\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hologram<\/a> printer with all the advantages of previous technologies while eliminating known drawbacks such as expensive lasers, slow <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/printing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">printing<\/a> speed, limited field of view and unsaturated colors,\u201d said research team leader Yves Gentet from Ultimate Holography in France. \u201cWe accomplished this by creating the CHIMERA printer, which uses low-cost commercial lasers and high-speed printing to produce holograms with high-quality color that spans a large dynamic range.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In The Optical Society (OSA) journal <i>Applied Optics<\/i>, the researchers describe the new printer, which creates holograms with wide fields of view and full parallax on a special photographic material they designed. Full parallax holograms reconstruct an object so that it is viewable in all directions, in this case with a field of view spanning 120 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new printer that produces digital 3D holograms with an unprecedented level of detail and realistic color. The new printer could be used to make high-resolution color recreations of objects or scenes for museum displays, architectural models, fine art or advertisements that do not require glasses or special viewing aids. \u201cOur 15-year [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98522","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98683,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98522\/revisions\/98683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}