Old Laser on a Magazine Cover

[Eidetic]

I think Chris (Lazerjock) has a hologram that reveals a woman taking her robe off, but as it rotates, you can't see any of the naughty bits because her back is to you when the robe falls. And of course, by the time it rotates back around she has pulled the robe back up...

Adam

That one is titled "Lovely Rita". It was made by Craig Newswanger at Advanced Dimensional Displays in the mid-'80s, and is about the most popular image ever made holographically. I worked for ADD in the late '80s in Van Nuys, to develop a full color version of the technique, but they went into embossed hologram production instead. Here's a pic of one I have that I recorded when testing the process there. Ultra rare and VERY collectable.

[Eidetic]

Just got the word that Lloyd Cross, who started the first company to make pulsed lasers (Trion, early '60s), the first laser light show company (Sonovision, late '60s), and the first school of holography (in San Francisco, early '70s) is in gravely serious condition and isn't expected to be with us much longer. Any thoughts for this true pioneer of our art and industry and his family will be appreciated.

http://www.holographyforum.org/forum...2&p=8736#p8736

[lasermaster1977]

Just got the word that Lloyd Cross, who started the first company to make pulsed lasers (Trion, early '60s), the first laser light show company (Sonovision, late '60s), and the first school of holography (in San Francisco, early '70s) is in gravely serious condition and isn't expected to be with us much longer. Any thoughts for this true pioneer of our art and industry and his family will be appreciated.

This is very sad to hear. I had the privilege of working with Loyd briefly in 1980 or 81. I was commissioned by The American Productivity Center in Houston, TX to create a stereographic hologram of their new building as part of the building's dedication and opening. I was provided architectural drawings of the four or five story building. A friend in Dallas, with access to a robust graphics computer with 16mm camera head, and I converted the drawing dimensions to a plus and minus 32767 XYZ world (by hand). We then entered the digitized XYZ coordinates of the building into the computer and selected an "eye view" location for rotation of the building about the Z axis. The computer generated the frames of the building as it rotated 360 degrees while a 16mm B&W camera took two frames of each rotational view. I shipped the resulting film off to Lloyd who then printed the multiplexed hologram for me. The 360 degree film was mounted in an appropriately lit, motorized plexiglass right cylinder and bundled into a furniture grade kiosk for final presentation.

I could not have done it without Lloyd's amazingly generous, meticulous and patient personality.

[Photonbeam]

This is very sad to hear. I had the privilege of working with Loyd briefly in 1980 or 81. I was commissioned by The American Productivity Center in Houston, TX to create a stereographic hologram of their new building as part of the building's dedication and opening. I was provided architectural drawings of the four or five story building. A friend in Dallas, with access to a robust graphics computer with 16mm camera head, and I converted the drawing dimensions to a plus and minus 32767 XYZ world (by hand). We then entered the digitized XYZ coordinates of the building into the computer and selected an "eye view" location for rotation of the building about the Z axis. The computer generated the frames of the building as it rotated 360 degrees while a 16mm B&W camera took two frames of each rotational view. I shipped the resulting film off to Lloyd who then printed the multiplexed hologram for me. The 360 degree film was mounted in an appropriately lit, motorized plexiglass right cylinder and bundled into a furniture grade kiosk for final presentation.

I could not have done it without Lloyd's amazingly generous, meticulous and patient personality.

I got to see the above mentioned work - pretty groundbreaking. It had to be one of the first if not the first artificial computer generated multiplex holographic stereograms.
Sorry to hear about Lloyd. Here is a good read - "The Story of Multiplex" as told by Lloyd Cross-
http://www.holophile.com/downloads/p...0Multiplex.pdf

[dsli_jon]

..never thought i would see "laserporn" but i guess this is a first...

...And you still-haven't (in-this, at least..) This is Artwork.. It's a 'laser painting' of a scene where the one woman has clearly dropped some frosting or ice cream or something like that on her chest, and since she can't bend her neck / head down that far, her friend is just helping her clean it off, nothing porney about that..

Awesome collection - to the both of ya..
j

PS -

...And of course, by the time it rotates back around she has pulled the robe back up...

..Bah, don't ya just *hate* when that happens?!

[amkaplan]

"Pam & Helen" was the first hologram image I ever saw, and it launched my career in '79. I got a 360 degree copy with display a few years ago from Larry Goldberg, former head of Holex (a big seller of holograms in the '70s). Also have a 120 degree piece.

I hung out with John Fairstein (I'm sure he's here somewhere) a bit when I was still in high school and he loaned me his "Kiss 2" for a presentation I made to the entire school. When I unveiled it, I mentioned that there were others, but they were "for mature audiences only," which got a snicker out of the headmaster; I was referring to "Pam and Helen," or "The Lick," as I knew of it at the time. Had I known of "Banana Lady," I truly might have risked taking it and getting booted out of school .

Cheers,

Allan