Here’s a quick reference guide that will seek to explain the trends, terms, and movements of the brave new media world of art and technology. So you can skim, digest, and be a pseudo-expert next time you’re cornered at a Speed Show exhibition in your local cybercafe. Because, hey, life is short and art long. This week: Volumetric displays.So, what are volumetric displays?
They are graphical displays produced by digital devices that involve thousands of voxels (3D pixels) to produce 3D imagery observable to the naked eye.Where did it come from?
The idea behind volumetric displays has been around for quite some time, about 100 years actually, but has yet to be fully integrated into public life. They are used in research facilities by the military and scientists, but not much for entertainment. However, in 1994 an art movement was born called hologlyphics that sought to make volumetric and autostereoscopic movies, combining volumetric animations with live music to create performance-based audiovisual digital sculptures.Hologlyphic movieThis week you're really digging…
Monkeylectric’s DIY generative interactive 3D light art called n00tron, controlled in real-time. See images below.
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Caught in the event horizon of holographic art forms, volumetric displays just need to lose the bulky artifacts that allow them to exist, making them sleeker and more handheld, and then volumetric displays will beat the illusory depth perception out of stereoscopic 3D. That, or someone needs to build an R2-D2.Describe yourself as…
A function of projected light.Keywords
Spatial, volume, graphical, 3D, autostereoscopy, display, light, field.Difficulty level
Photonic.Age range
Three dimensional.Kinect controlled volumetric Superman logoTagline
2D is a compromise.To recap:
Take off those stupid looking glasses and burn them, volumetricism will be the the visual medium of the mid 21st century. Maybe.Next week: Chiptune music.
They are graphical displays produced by digital devices that involve thousands of voxels (3D pixels) to produce 3D imagery observable to the naked eye.
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The idea behind volumetric displays has been around for quite some time, about 100 years actually, but has yet to be fully integrated into public life. They are used in research facilities by the military and scientists, but not much for entertainment. However, in 1994 an art movement was born called hologlyphics that sought to make volumetric and autostereoscopic movies, combining volumetric animations with live music to create performance-based audiovisual digital sculptures.Hologlyphic movieThis week you're really digging…
Monkeylectric’s DIY generative interactive 3D light art called n00tron, controlled in real-time. See images below.

Caught in the event horizon of holographic art forms, volumetric displays just need to lose the bulky artifacts that allow them to exist, making them sleeker and more handheld, and then volumetric displays will beat the illusory depth perception out of stereoscopic 3D. That, or someone needs to build an R2-D2.Describe yourself as…
A function of projected light.Keywords
Spatial, volume, graphical, 3D, autostereoscopy, display, light, field.Difficulty level
Photonic.Age range
Three dimensional.Kinect controlled volumetric Superman logoTagline
2D is a compromise.To recap:
Take off those stupid looking glasses and burn them, volumetricism will be the the visual medium of the mid 21st century. Maybe.Next week: Chiptune music.