holograms
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Swiss Wizards Can Now Create Holograms Using Just Chocolate
This is really amazing and beautiful: Chocolate etched with rainbow holograms using a technique that doesn’t use additives of any kind, but rather carves specific microstructures into the chocolate’s surface that defract light — much the same way that the security holograms on credit cards work.
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Now World Leaders Are Giving Speeches Via Hologram
When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan couldn’t make it to the city of Izmir last Sunday to give a speech, he wasn’t too bothered — because he decided he’d give it by hologram instead.
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The Art Of The Hologram Is Alive In This Underground Laboratory
Holograms occupy a strange place in our visual culture. Encountering a genuinely innovative holographic image can elicit wonder and joy, yet the technology has struggled to transcend election night gimmicks and Tupac exploitation. But for those who run the Holographic Studios in NYC, creating 3D images remains an obsession and an art.
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This Death Star Hologram Was Made Using A Raspberry Pi
Who doesn’t want a holographic Death Star sitting on the mantle at home? A group at the University of Leeds in the UK could make your dreams come true, as long as you don’t mind the requirements: a plastic enclosure containing a ring of LEDs spinning at 300rpm, a Raspberry Pi and uh, electricity.