fauxlography

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English

Etymology

Blend of faux +‎ holography

Pronunciation

Noun

fauxlography (usually uncountable, plural fauxlographies)

  1. Effects that are falsely confused with holography, such as the effects produced by lenticular printing, the Pepper's ghost illusion, tomography and volumetric displays.
    • 2016 December 1, Alun Williams, “Comment: Holographic technology takes a step beyond AR and VR”, in Electronics Weekly‎, archived from the original on October 19, 2019:
      This has created inflated expectations in the mind of the public who largely believe that displays or ‘holographic projectors’ already exist and its trivial to make them. This void that has been filled a great deal of ‘fake holographic 3D’, based on Pepper’s Ghost and similar optical illusions; otherwise known as “fauxlography”.
    • 2020 January 3, Shengquan Yu, Avgoustos Tsinakos, Mohamed Ally, Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies in the Curriculum‎, Springer Nature Singapore, →ISBN, page 219:
      As the user has to wear specialist equipment to view HoloLens content, it could arguably be bracketed with Pepper's Ghost technologies as another example of fauxlography, given that the HoloLens is clearly quite distinct from classical holograms.
    • 2021 November 1, Mark Wolverton, “Where are all the holograms?: The elusive realm of total 3D immersion”, in SPIE‎, archived from the original on October 7, 2022:
      Pepper's ghost and similar tricks, however, are only "fauxlography," not holography, says Khan. "Any vague illusion of an image floating in space is labeled a hologram, whether it's celebrities, politicians, or a cardboard cutout in an airport. So, beware of fake holographics—remember, if there's no diffraction, then it's not a hologram."
    • 2022 January 14, Alexandra Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Antigone Heraclidou, Emerging Technologies and Museums: Mediating Difficult Heritage‎, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 111:
      The diffracting beams of laser light produce a three-dimensional light field as a reproduction on an original object on scene. The resulting holographic images, although seemingly three-dimensional, were until recently and most frequently, simply two-dimensional renditions, as they were viewed ‘on the flat screen of a display monitor or projected onto a flat surface such as a wall or sheet of glass’ (Corning 2019). These projections currently tend to be classified as false holograms or fauxlography.

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