Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oakhill.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!ut-sally!oakhill!davet From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) Newsgroups: net.sci,net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Holograms at Disneyland Message-ID: <603@oakhill.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 23:51:22 EST Article-I.D.: oakhill.603 Posted: Mon Dec 2 23:51:22 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 04:39:22 EST References: <547@scirtp.UUCP> <342@mhuxl.UUCP> <520@harvard.UUCP> <173@altos86.UUCP> Reply-To: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.sci:485 net.rec.photo:1659 In article <173@altos86.UUCP> bob@gateway.UUCP (Bob Hutson) writes: > > >Now, can anyone explain the lady in the glass bowl? At first I thought >it was Disney's Video-Animatronics (i.e., Lincoln), however, there is >a constant very bright light seemingly from the center of the bowl >that implies a projection of some sort. Any takers? > The second time on the ride I figured this one out. It is a projection system. This is much like the 'singing ghost faces' except that there is more than one projector (probably two.) Inside the globe is a head with wig and a face of just reflective white surface. The projectors hone in from two directions and are synched. A couple years later I was on the ride again and it was quite obvious because the film was so old it was full of scratches and the projectors were not in synch. The white light you mention is quite mysterious. It appears at Disneyland but not at Disneyworld (at least the times I have been at both places.) I would presume it is a defect of some sort at Disneyland but that is only a guess. -- Dave Trissel {seismo,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!davet