holography

noun

ho·log·ra·phy hō-ˈlä-grə-fē

: the art or process of making or using a hologram

holographer

hō-ˈlä-grə-fər

noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Generally, holography is incredibly complex. —

Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 19 Oct. 2020 This idea works very well with holography, and the fact that the entropy of the black hole is proportional to the area of the horizon rather than the volume of what's inside. —

Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011 In its early years, holography was generally accomplished by splitting a laser beam in two, then shining one beam at an object before recombining the beams, creating an interference pattern that was imprinted on a light-sensitive film. —

Mark Aramo, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022 Sure enough, FogScreen’s chief technology officer, Arttu Laitinen, says his company has been closely following developments in the field of holography with an eye to creating interference patterns on fog. —

David H Freedman, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2011 That’s because conventional holography involves recording a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional medium. —

Mark Aramo, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022 Jafferis, Gao and Wall’s 2016 discovery of this holographic, traversable wormhole gave researchers a new window into the mechanics of holography. —

Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022 Future measurements of these rings won’t directly test holography, though — rather, the data will allow extreme tests of general relativity near black holes. —

Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2022 Then, co-author Benjamin Miller, a graduate student at MIT, discovered an exhibit on holography at the MIT Museum and realized that creating a hologram was similar in some respects to how nature produces structural color. —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022 See More

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