In Association with ... - Hellenic Institute of Holography

The Hellenic Institute of Holography (HiH) was established in Athens in 1987 with the purpose of introducing and promoting Holography in Greece in all possible areas: science, art, media and authentication. HIH has the status of non-profit scientific and educational organization with its income accruing from members' contributions and services to third parties.

Technological progress in various disciplines such as solid-state lasers, panchromatic emulsions, digital photography, computational capabilities, LED illumination etc. allow for the first time the use of realistic display holography in cultural heritage in a practical and tangible manner. This has in turn resulted in renewed interest in applications of display holography for Museums and worldwide activities in this sphere have ensued. Being active in Greece, a country with a unique cultural tradition of worldwide influence extending from Classical Ancient Greece to Orthodox Byzantium Christianity, the use of display holography in the preservation, recording and public visual dissemination of artifact items from this cultural heritage has been at the core and forefront of the activities of the Hellenic Institute of Holography through its program HoloCultura.

This is the term of an ambitious program set out by the Hellenic Institute of Holography for the use of display holography in applications related to cultural heritage. During Phase I, the necessary (trans)portable equipment, processes and software for the in-situ recording of artifacts and their subsequent interpretation in either analog or digital display holograms have been developed. The transportable multi-prespective digital image capture systems (marketed as Z_Studio) as well as the transportable studio for holographic analog recordings (marketed as Z_Lab) are now available for on-site documentation of cultural artifacts. Derived holograms from these processes can now be optimally illuminated using the proprietary illuminant Η_oL_oF_oS of different generations depending on the specific requirements.

Z-Studio

Digital Hologram of  Z3RGB

Z3RGB  model ZZZyclops

The program has entered since Nov2011 in Phase II where experimental work is done by using the laser camera (marketed as Z3^RGB  model ZZZyclops) for analog Denisyuk holograms of acceptable standard by the prospective end-users. The preliminary results from this comparative R&D work have been compiled into a scientific paper which was presented at the 9th Int'l Symposium of Display Holography (ISDH2012) held at the MIT Media Lab in Boston USA. whereas one of these optically cloned artifactscan still be seen until Sep 2013 at the MIT Museum. 

 

ChiosEpitaph OptoClone^©Evzon1912 OptoClone^©Phase III of this program is already in seed preparation with discussions for pilot application projects involving established international holographic players with proven track of work in the area of display holography for cultural heritage; the recording of Religious Artifacts in the form of Optical Clones (OptoClones^©) is the present direction of one of these trans-national cooperation projects.

 

 

Since 2004, TAURUS also protects the tobacco and alcohol excise tax banderolls of the Republic of Serbia on behalf of the Ministry of Finance whereas since 2008 it also implements the annual accreditation of 2.5 million vehicles of the Republic of Serbia on behalf of the Serbian Ministry of Interior. During the same period, all certificates issued by the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce in Saudi Arabia are protected by an integrated authentication solution applied on-line and at the point-of-issue with the use of CAVOMIT desk-top foiling equipment of Greek manufacture. To this date, more than 20 million such certificates have been issued on a daily basis from 50 issuing stations securing their genuine nature and a substantial income for the issuing governmental authority.