The Ultimate for Museography

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To get an Ultimate, we combine 3 technologies which create a "perfect optical double" of an object:


Buckle of bellt from Benin
 (photo of a monochromatic hologram , shot inside the Musée des Arts  d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, 1993)

1.:the volume is captured by a process of holography :

improved by Yuri Denisyuk at the Vavilov Institute of St Petersbourg: the holographic plate, at the time when it saw the object, created billions of small elementary mirrors. These are able to redirect the light from an halogen spot, to reconstitute the luminous envelope, therefore the volume of the original object.

 


Y.Gentet – Y.Denisyuk –  M. Shevstov ( St Petersburg)
(the collaboration for the development of the color process started in 1992)


Butterflies and other Insects
 (photo of the Ultimate "Butterflies")

2.:the colors are captures by the process of interferential photography:

invented in 1891 by french G.Lippmann, the colors are reconstructed identical to the original, by a spectral decomposition of the ambient light. No pigment or dye is used to reproduce the colors. This absolutely brilliant invention remains ignored by the general public.

 


Gabriel Lippmann


Color photograph made in 1891

Minerals are perfectly reconstructed (photograph of a detail of an 'Ultimate )

 

3. :the material and its optical effects are captured by nanotechnology:

 

The photosensitive silver grains are so small (a few nanometers), that they appear transparent to light. The total lack of diffusion associated with this extremely fine grain, means that material and texture are reconstituted perfectly across all colors. Glass, metal, fabric, feathers or even the wing of a butterfly seem real ! Metalic reflection, moiré fringes, shade or any other particular effect are captured and restored to perfection.

 

Metalic reflection and texture of a butterfly wing
 (photograph of detail of the Ultimate "butterflies")

 

The Ultimate: a perfect result for museum applications

For capture, the object does not need to be moved

Our mobile apparatus allows for shooting in situ

 

Every Utimate is an original

A new recording plate must be placed in front of the object to be recorded. No posterior copy is possible in this technique, which seeks to recreate nature with absolute perfection.

No optical aberration

No optics are used between the plate and the object. This guarantees, contrary to photography, the total absence of distortion and recording on 1:1 scale (in fact, with an accuracy better than one micron!).

180° Angle of View

This technique is exceptional for its angle of view, 180° up-down and right-left. The illusion is perfect. One believes the true object is actually front of them. In the same way, anywhere it is placed, the public sees a perfect reconstruction of the original object.

 

 

A Window

The object appears reconstituted behind the glass plate which recorded it. The advantage is that the public, even by tightening the hand, cannot know if it acts on the true object or its Ultimate double.

 

 

 

In true Volume

No glasses or additional optics are necessary to see our images in volume. By using the light from a halogen spot the object is reconstituted in the display space.

 

 

Size and depth

Ultimates have a size up to 30x40cm with a maximum depth of 25cm when they are recorded with the mobile system. Larger recordings are possible in a permanent studio.

 

The Originals remain safe

Ultimates can travel and be easily displayed. During this time the original objects remain in a safe place!

 

Permanence

Ultimate is a gelatine sealed within glass. Except by breaking, it is unalterable. By the same token, its structural colors (contrary to pigments) will never be alterated. If the original object is stolen or destroyed, the optical double would remain as a reference, thanks to Ultimate.

A strong Impact in communication

Any visitor will be strongly effected by the sight of Ultimate: "How is this possible?" they will wonder. The wow effect is there!

Distribution of a unique object

Thanks to Ultimates, an object can be presented in several places simultaneously.

Very simple display

by a halogen spot or by lowpower LEDs.