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Diffraction Grating Glasses

Major collection: Holography
Named collection: Holography Collection
Object type: hologram
Maker: Foy, John
Date made: 1979
Materials: white light transmission; film
Measurements: 1 1/2 in x 16 in
Nomenclature: commercial
Classification: holograms

Pair of eyeglasses made of gold-colored cardboard; lenses are made of holographic film; when viewer looks at a light source through glasses, repeating diffraction grating patterns appear.


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MOH-1979.64