light recorded so well it fakes depth, not just a picture but a rehearsal of reality.
means a technique for recording and reconstructing the full wavefront of light so an image appears three-dimensional from any angle.
from coined from greek holos (whole) and graphein (to write) by dennis gabor in 1947, who was trying to sharpen electron microscopes and accidentally invented a way to record the entire light field of a scene, not just its brightness.
gabor's 1947 hologram — invented pre-laser, images were blurry and mostly unusable
leith and upatnieks — 1962 university of michigan team made the first clear laser holograms
visa hologram dove — used since 1980s as an anti-counterfeit security feature
mit museum collection — holds one of the largest public archives of holographic art