In article <477e910f$1@news.povray.org>, 
nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom says...
> And the fact that there isn't any 3D hologram projector except on the 
> virtual world on your website :)
> 
> PS: I fell for it too. Great job there.
> 
Well, this isn't 100% true now. Some guy is developing a system that 
takes a laser, runs code through a standard 3D card to determine the 
pattern of interference needed to make a 3D image, then alters the 
laser, using some optical technique that apparently eliminates the 
mirrors normally used, to generate a hologram. I.e., he is doing the 
reverse of what you do to get a holographic print. Like other holograms, 
it isn't projected into mid air, but on a flat surface. It is also only 
monocolored at the moment, though that wouldn't matter much for most 
animals, and takes up a room the size of a small refrigerator truck. He 
hopes to make it work with multicolor lasers, and get it down to the 
size of... a copier machine, or some such, in the relatively near 
future.

Now, whether you could a) generate an image from data, like a picture, 
which would work, b) find some place to hide something the size of a 
refer, and c) really hide behind it usefully, is another matter. lol You 
are probably better off just buying camo netting. 5-10 years from now... 
who knows, especially with new developments in laser technology, 3D 
hardware, etc.

Think I read about it is MIT Technology Review, but not sure if that was 
the magazine or not.

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