There's something about holography.
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 3:39 am
What drives otherwise normal people to pursue holography? What is so compelling? Whether producing holograms, collecting them, or simply trying to understand how a hologram can exist, the challenges are great. And yet we still do it.
If you try your hand at making one you'll know what I mean. At the beginning, when you look for that very first small sign of success and actually see something there, it's an incredible feeling! I almost did a cartwheel over my sand table after finding that first faint red image of a little swan.
And that's usually just the beginning of a long road. Improvements come incrementally and very slowly it seems. You need the patience of a saint at times, and an uncommon desire to overcome problems that are often more tedious than interesting. So much so that I sometimes ask myself - why do it? The answer always seems a little vague, but every time I see improvements the question recedes for awhile.
Does anybody have any ideas from experience about why, or how, holography can draw you in the way it does, and not let go?
If you try your hand at making one you'll know what I mean. At the beginning, when you look for that very first small sign of success and actually see something there, it's an incredible feeling! I almost did a cartwheel over my sand table after finding that first faint red image of a little swan.
And that's usually just the beginning of a long road. Improvements come incrementally and very slowly it seems. You need the patience of a saint at times, and an uncommon desire to overcome problems that are often more tedious than interesting. So much so that I sometimes ask myself - why do it? The answer always seems a little vague, but every time I see improvements the question recedes for awhile.
Does anybody have any ideas from experience about why, or how, holography can draw you in the way it does, and not let go?