Embracing COLLADA: Principal Illustration

Using COLLADA, let's construct an interact 3D scene that illustrates how digital holograms might be efficiently constructed.

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Born, M. and Wolf, E. (1980) Principles of Optics, 3^rd Edition. New York: Pergamon Press. [See especially their §§8.5 and 8.10.] A link to the 6^th edition of this book can be found here.
Nishikawa, O., Okada, T., Yoshikawa, H., Sato, K. and Honda, T. (February 1997), High-Speed Holographic-Stereogram Calculation Method Using 2D FFT, Proc. SPIE 3010, Diffractive and Holographic Device Technologies and Applications IV, (15 May 1997); paper #3010-10.