MUSING WITH YURI DENISYUK
SOME years ago, I was fortunate to meet Yuri Denisyuk during a diplomatic trip to the former USSR. Yes, I was then working for the United States National Academy of Science/National Research Council as a Senior Research Fellow detailed to NASA. In that capacity and as a member of a People-to-People delegation, I met Yuri in his laboratory in St. Petersburg where we discussed the use of normal light holograms (for which he was famous) in analyzing the effects of micrometeorites on spacecraft “skin.” The idea was to use stereoscopic normal light holography to obtain paired holograms of pieces of spacecraft returned from space (and hopefully later in space). While there are distinct limits to resolution using normal light “photographs” or stereo photographs, by overlaying the paired holograms, one could create an interference pattern describing a metallic surface’s topography down to the angstrom level.
While I wasn’t to find out if USA’s NASA or USSR’s then Glavkosmos would ever actually utilize of deploy this intriguing technique, I was pleased to receive several of Yuri’s normal light holograms on glass plates, which I think I must still have somewhere in my storage compartment. I was deeply saddened by this genius’ passing in 2006. Now, as Daniel S. Janik, actor, for K. Simmons Productions, I find myself reflecting on the use of the Denisyuk Normal Light Hologram (DNLH) as a foundation for a entirely new kind of cinematography. Not 3-D with glasses, but holographically without. The result would be astounding. No more “trick” 3-D projections like a sword point thrust towards the audience, but an entire 4-D visual playing field, more like looking into and joining a studio set where the action is actually taking place between characters. In essence, one could, at least theoretically, see the action in 3-D from any character’s point-of-view, and at a definition far beyond anything even imaginable with current digital systems. Forget 8K. Paired DNLH’s would bring definition at least down to the molecular level and quite possibly the atomic level, something, as I said, unimaginable today.
In the Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 -- I imagine this fully plausible technology applied to normal life: holographic “instructors” and “learners” in the schools of tomorrow; projections of oneself interacting with others while one attends to other activities; DNLH exploration of space (to be developed more in the sequel tentatively entitle “Prophecy”). The key to writing what I call Science Futuring (SciFu) rather than Fiction or Fantasy lies in technological plausibility. In terms of DNLH, I personally experienced this with one of the great minds of this and quite possibly the next century. Isn’t it time for you to meet Yuri and experience for yourself a little bit of the future world “plausibly” waiting for us?
The Edge of Madness
THE EDGE OF MADNESS is available in printed, digital and audiobook formats, and has been purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
While I wasn’t to find out if USA’s NASA or USSR’s then Glavkosmos would ever actually utilize of deploy this intriguing technique, I was pleased to receive several of Yuri’s normal light holograms on glass plates, which I think I must still have somewhere in my storage compartment. I was deeply saddened by this genius’ passing in 2006. Now, as Daniel S. Janik, actor, for K. Simmons Productions, I find myself reflecting on the use of the Denisyuk Normal Light Hologram (DNLH) as a foundation for a entirely new kind of cinematography. Not 3-D with glasses, but holographically without. The result would be astounding. No more “trick” 3-D projections like a sword point thrust towards the audience, but an entire 4-D visual playing field, more like looking into and joining a studio set where the action is actually taking place between characters. In essence, one could, at least theoretically, see the action in 3-D from any character’s point-of-view, and at a definition far beyond anything even imaginable with current digital systems. Forget 8K. Paired DNLH’s would bring definition at least down to the molecular level and quite possibly the atomic level, something, as I said, unimaginable today.
In the Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 -- I imagine this fully plausible technology applied to normal life: holographic “instructors” and “learners” in the schools of tomorrow; projections of oneself interacting with others while one attends to other activities; DNLH exploration of space (to be developed more in the sequel tentatively entitle “Prophecy”). The key to writing what I call Science Futuring (SciFu) rather than Fiction or Fantasy lies in technological plausibility. In terms of DNLH, I personally experienced this with one of the great minds of this and quite possibly the next century. Isn’t it time for you to meet Yuri and experience for yourself a little bit of the future world “plausibly” waiting for us?
The Edge of Madness
THE EDGE OF MADNESS is available in printed, digital and audiobook formats, and has been purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
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