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From: aaa@pixar.UUCP (Tony Apodaca)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: synthetic -> hologram
Message-ID: <6505@pixar.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 22:39:17 GMT
References: <4791@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: aaa@pixar.UUCP (Tony Apodaca)
Organization: Pixar -- Marin County, California
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In article <6490@pixar.UUCP> efo@pixar.uucp (efo) writes:
>cover of the July 1988 IEEE CG+A was a hologram of the baby and toy
>in "Tin Toy".  We supplied ABN with a sequence of high-resolution
>images of the scene rotating about its center; through expensive
>magic, ABN turns these into a single hologram.

Before anyone asks, ABN == American Bank Note.
This is the company which makes the two holograms that every
man and woman in America has in their pocket (or equivalent)
this very moment...  the VISA and MasterCard emblems.

"If I had a penny for every credit card in America...."
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