That wasn't "cool" either, regardless of the number of dimensions it was projected in.
Ask her coke buddy Bluto about that worked out in the 3d real world.
Posted on 07/27/2017 9:50:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"As a kid, I kept trying to think of a way to invent this," Lippert said in a statement from SMU. "Then, once I got a background in chemistry molecules that interact with light, and an understanding of photoswitches, it finally dawned on me that I could take two beams of light and use chemistry to manipulate the emission of light."
Lippert's new technology can create animated 3D table-top visualizations by structuring light. But this isn't a hologram being projected into thin air, like Leia's "Star Wars" scene. Rather, through an ingenious use of light and a special kind of chemistry, his team is developing a new imaging technique that creates a genuine 3D image inside a transparent cylinder, called a "volumetric display."
"Our idea was to use chemistry and special photoswitch molecules to make a 3D display that delivers a 360-degree view," Lippert said. "It's not a hologram; it's really three-dimensionally structured light."
The technology is based on a special molecule that can switch between fluorescent and nonfluorescent modes (known as photoswitching) when ultraviolet light is switched on and off. While the ultraviolet light shines on the molecule, it can produce its own light when hit by another beam of visible light — in this case, one produced by a projector bought from Best Buy. When the ultraviolet light is switched off, the molecule stops fluorescing. When many of these molecules in a transparent liquid solvent are activated and deactivated over time, a 3D animation can be set into motion inside the liquid.
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Real-time high-resolution 3D photoswitching volumetric displays...and the kids are playing Minecraft... (sound of sobbing)
SMH. Well that’s impressive... not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsexvB2696o
Grant time in the the lab is it?
No it’s not supposed to be impressive. It’s supposed to be “cool”
It’s not cool either. It’s not even 3d. The horse in the video is projected on flat planes in the liquid.
>>It’s supposed to be “cool”
Especially to whoever reviews their grant requests.
Yes, dear.
That wasn't "cool" either, regardless of the number of dimensions it was projected in.
Ask her coke buddy Bluto about that worked out in the 3d real world.
Yes, dear.
Here's your "cool" 3d pony, super genius.
FAIL.
Yes, dear.
Idiot.
Yes, dear.
LOL!
Are they taking pre-orders for Holodecks yet?
I saw one of these Voxie-type displays at a Society for Information Display conference back in the 90’s. Don’t know if it’s the same company or group of guys, but it is the same technology.
There is a screen, inside a dome or cylinder that spins very quickly and slices of the volumetric image are synchronously projected onto the spinning screen. It was pretty cool, but wasn’t a commercial product yet, at that time.
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