This course will teach you about the many kinds of holograms (and about many images described as holograms but which aren't) and prepare you for the coming revolution in Digital Holograms. Optical Holograms (which require lasers in order to create them) have been with us for nearly 60 years, but it has taken until now for the technology to evolve to the point where digital holographic displays are practical. We are at the beginning of a new era of holographic imaging, and this course is designed to educate you about what is already here and to prepare you for what is to come.​

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As we move forward into new directions in Holography this course is updated to reflect the changes. Over the past 20 years or so we have seen a shift in laser technology from large, expensive gas  lasers to tiny much cheaper diode lasers and a vast shift in the technology that is producing tunable lasers and pulsed lasers. All of these changes are altering the way we make holograms.

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New versions of photopolymer recording materials are making it possible to record self-developing holograms (let's all celebrate not having to work with harmful  chemicals) and a surge of interest in DCG is making it possible to create brilliant recordings in a medium that offers a range of different image possibilities.

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Digital Holograms have many practical applications and are becoming more accessible for artists. Creating holograms from CG content opens a world of creative possibilities and when you combine that with 3D printing, photogrammetry, Lidar, Gaussian Splats and Neural Radiance Fields you find a world of growing complexity that offers a huge array of creative possibility.

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Who should take this course:

- Artists exploring the latest technologies to convey their message

- Anyone with an interest in the rapidly evolving holographic arts

- Advertisers, designers, commercial artists who want to be prepared for the next wave of technology

- Teachers who want to open their students to the future

- Architects, engineers who want to stay up tp date with the latest tools in their field

- Investors who want to keep abreast of the latest technologies 

- Anyone, young or old, who is fascinated by this amazing form of imagery.

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