P3D Holography and View-Magic viewers

["Dana Nibby" <dnibby@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is indeed a permanent holography exhibit at the MIT museum on Mass 
Ave. Admission is cheap - something like $1 for students and $2 for 
everyone else. It's one of Boston's (Cambridge's...) best kept secrets. 
Easy to miss as well; it's just off of Mass Ave in an ordinary looking 
building. 

There's one near life-size hologram of a man which is completely 
unsettling - my reaction: "They've stuffed grandpa and put him in a 
closet!" You can see the glare off his eyeballs, etc; Of course, it 
being a hologram, it's a nauseating greenish color, but it sure is neat.

There's a small red hologram looking out into a bar from a bartender's 
vantage point - you can look into and *around* the hologram; that's 
another of my favorites.

There's the... well, just go and you'll see. 

Other exhibits are: The Hall of Hacks - an exhibit of outrageous pranks 
devised by MIT students over the years. 

And there's an exhibit of of the most amazing kinetic 
"sculptures"/structures I've ever seen; if you're intrigued by 
surrealism, science fiction, and fantastic machinery which doesn't do 
anything practical (I like the perpetual self-oiling machine), then this 
is for you.

Kids like the kinetic sculpture which is a cart you push around - on 
top, it has these fuzzy blue inchworms which wiggle and move forward as 
you push the cart.

It's a small museum, but well worth a visit. They claim to have the 
largest holography exhibit on earth. It's worth visiting more than once.

By the way, where can I purchase (inexpensively) a View-Magic viewer? I 
don't recall seeing one in the Reel-3D catalog. 

 - Dana




 

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