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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: computer-generated holograms (was Re: replacing the desktop metaphor)
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
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Date: 5 Jan 89 02:54:55 GMT
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In article <3637@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
>  I'm not sure it's even
>theoretically possible, let alone feasible.

Well, it's been done.  A couple of years ago I saw a
computer-generated hologram on display at the MIT Media Laboratory.
I believe it was static (i.e. like a photograph), not dynamic (like an
animated display).  I don't know anything about the technology used to
produce it.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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