abstract: Can you tell us a little of the history of digital holography in the embossing industry. It all started in the early 80’s when the first dot matrix systems were produced by people such as Frank Davis and Craig Newswanger. It is always difficult to say who the first was however it was reported in Holography News that Spatial’s DI-HO system, which I developed in 1991, was the first computer automated LCD stereogram printer to be offered commercially. The DI-HO system automatically created full colour and animated 3D stereograms from electronic images and video. We sold four such systems from 1991 to 1994. Walter Spierings also developed a similar system in Holland at this time. Until the late 90’s dot matrix systems were primarily used to create kinetic patterns rather than 3D images. If those patterns displayed 3D effects it was usually by accident. In the late 90’s however Spatial Imaging and Ahead Optoelectronics in Taiwan independently developed the use of such technology for the production of 3D digital stereograms. The techniques developed are now widely used in the security hologram industry. E-beam systems are also used extensively to produce digital holograms and there are now several dot matrix type machines on the market.
British artist Chris Levine was given the commission in 2004 to create a royal portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. He decided that this should be a large format hologram of the queen, to be illuminated in a deep, royal blue color. Levine contacted Rob Munday at the British company Spatial Imaging for production assistance with the hologram. And Spatial Imaging contacted Dr. John Perry of Holographics North Inc. (HNI) in the US.
The voice of Holography
Denysiuk. By Odile Meulien Öhlmann Dr. Paula Dawson is a very single pointed person. .
Ed Wesly from Chicago informed us that U-M holography innovator Emmett Leith died Dec. 23 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital after falling ill the previous day at
his home in Canton . He was 78.
Emmett Leith, who is one of the early innovators of holography in the 1960s, was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan Leith was born in Detroit and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees
in physics and his doctorate from Wayne State University. Leith 's work made holography an active area of research, resulting in widespread applications.
He uncovered the principles of holography in the mid-1950s while working on a military radar program at the U-M Institute of Science and Technology at
Willow Run. Between 1961 and 1964, Leith and fellow U-M researcher Juris Upatnieks made a series of presentations to the Optical Society of America
describing three major advances in holography, which uses lasers to create three-dimensional images.
"I loved the guy,'' Kozma, of Ann Arbor , told The News in a telephone interview Thursday. "He was a brilliant engineer, a wonderful person ... a very nice man. He was a well-decorated professor.''
Gary Adams worked in the Willow Run labs for Leith in the 1960s.
"The man was very humble, quiet and brilliant,'' said Adams , of Ann Arbor . "He's known as the person who made practical holography possible.''
Kim Winick, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at U-M, also spoke at the service, noting Leith's many scientific accomplishments and honours, among them the National Medal of Science he
received from President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and his membership in the National Academy of Engineering, Leith held the Schlumberger Endowed Chair
in his department and graduated 41 doctoral students in his career, many of whom went on to have illustrative careers of their own, Winick said.
Kim Leith said her father was unconventional and had a unique sense of humour. She said he was widely respected by his colleagues and loved to teach, garden, swim and make jam from his berry bushes. She said he grew an orange tree by the side of his Canton house and built a greenhouse around it.
Since 25 years in the profession, artBridge created nets of international contacts. Here are some interviews with artists, inventors, and scientists which we took time to report.
How long it takes you to work on a project?
Between 1 and 3 years for big project. The main problem is that people do not trust the project because they do not see the materiality, and they do not see how it looks like the photo never render the full effect, and people cannot get to the right idea. The other problem is the cost. The lamination system of film on glass is a big investment. I do like to work on DCG Hologram, but there are very few places where large format can be produced, and the next question is how to protect them well from Humidity to avoid any damage.
Strength of Vision. By Odile Meulien Öhlmann Dr. Paula Dawson is a very single pointed person. She knows what she feels and bring all her energy to realise her vision. Intuition, she has a lot : The images and places she meets make echoes in her inner soul to build up new form new shape of light. Her work is like a reflection of the virtual appearances of reality. What is more real and tangible as a, Bar, one of her most famous large format scenery . But how unreal it look likes under the laser light and holographic reconstruction she worked out. Between her first works and the latest one with the mirror like image, Paula Dawson seems in the 1,50meter she can encompass to search for a kind of invisible border, like the other side of a mirror. Where is the line, a wall of light to cross, to enter a n dimension, another reality accessible through Paula Dawson ´s vision.
Jeff Blyth explain his latest idea to Jonathan Ross
