I do not know the word either... but somewhere in the website there are a couple of detailed papers on this process... I read them a while ago, but I think that there were further explanations.
Manipulating holographic images?
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Arturo
Manipulating holographic images?
Googling provided this:
http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-hap1.htm
HAPTIC
Of, or relating to, the sense of touch or tactile sensations.
This is a good example of a relatively unusual scientific word that in recent years has become more widely known through a specific use. It appeared near the end of the nineteenth century, at first as a medical term. It was coined from the Greek haptikos, able to sense or touch, which derives from the verb haptein, to fasten. It’s closely related to the rare English prefix hapto–, as in haptotropism for the reflex action in plants such as honeysuckle or bindweed that causes them to twist around objects they touch. At one time, people most often came across the word in connection with hard contact lenses, which were described as haptic because they were moulded exactly to fit the shape of the eyeball.
In the past decade or so, haptic has become more widely used in the world of immersive virtual-reality computer systems by those who design techniques and tools that reproduce the sense of touch. Joysticks and the like are now being designed so that they feed tactile information back to the user about the way the system is functioning. An object that has been visualised on a computer may soon be capable of being felt as well as seen. Such tools are commonly known in the business as haptic devices.
http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-hap1.htm
HAPTIC
Of, or relating to, the sense of touch or tactile sensations.
This is a good example of a relatively unusual scientific word that in recent years has become more widely known through a specific use. It appeared near the end of the nineteenth century, at first as a medical term. It was coined from the Greek haptikos, able to sense or touch, which derives from the verb haptein, to fasten. It’s closely related to the rare English prefix hapto–, as in haptotropism for the reflex action in plants such as honeysuckle or bindweed that causes them to twist around objects they touch. At one time, people most often came across the word in connection with hard contact lenses, which were described as haptic because they were moulded exactly to fit the shape of the eyeball.
In the past decade or so, haptic has become more widely used in the world of immersive virtual-reality computer systems by those who design techniques and tools that reproduce the sense of touch. Joysticks and the like are now being designed so that they feed tactile information back to the user about the way the system is functioning. An object that has been visualised on a computer may soon be capable of being felt as well as seen. Such tools are commonly known in the business as haptic devices.
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Colin Kaminski
Manipulating holographic images?
As long as computing speed doubles each 18 months. 100 years is no problem. With a FFT and LOTS of computing power this is quite posible. If you wanted to do a VERY small image you could do it now.
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Dinesh
Manipulating holographic images?
Thanks much. It's one of those cases where I knew such a thing existed but didn't have any actual knowledge of them. Perhaps I need to take my nose out of my equations occasionally and look at the real world!