History
A new technology has been borne
To understand the incredible technological breakthrough made by this Synthetic 4Dimensional media, we must honour the many people and their technical achievements that led to its development. All started in 1908, when Lippman developed the integral and colour photographic processes which are still used in today’s lenticular technology. This was later developed by Lloyd Cross and Steven Benton into Kino form holograms still used in security technologies and the late dot matrix printers such as the one developed by Rob Munday, in UK.
Our today printer results from the works of Dr David Ratcliff who made the holographic printer a working reality and patented it in 1999. In early 2000, Zebra imagining ( USA ) was patenting a similar printer but with continuous wave lasers. In 2006 the Geola printing technologies were developing further and the new printing process was presented at the International Symposium on Display Holography by Dr David Ratcliff and Dr. Stanislosvas Zacharovas. By installing in Vilnius one printer manufactured by its former subsidiary XYZ Imaging ( Canada ), and establishing close partnership with Syn4D, Syn4D-Geola group started the first and only 4D printing services in Europe . Compared to all the technologies developed before this 4D technology makes a real break through in display industry. Up to now it is indeed the only medium able to reproduce 3dimensional images with full animation and full colour on a flat sheet.
A new service is growing in the world?
New development calls for new generation of artists and engineers able to share the incredible amount of various knowledge that new technologies require. To contribute to this educational goal Dietmar Öhlmann , MA RCA created with Odile Meulien Ohlmann, former Curator of the ASTI Holography Collection (USA) the online magazine artBridge, a matrix of inspiration for the arts and techniques of the future. In 1998 Dietmar Ohlmann being asked to recreate a castle on a hologram presented to Steven Benton of MIT and later to SPIE Conferences a project where all information is printed in small dots. The idea is to produce a window frame using holographic master transmission technique to be able to project extra large scale image. This is a very different process than the one of Syn4D Print which scales the object to the frame format. Nevertheless, as the Syn4D Media gets borne, the capacity of recording time on a flat sheet decided them to take the challenge of developing it and created Syn4D GmbH.
Since 2006 the Geola –Syn4D group offers a high standard printing service creating a worldwide network to distribute the Syn4D Print and related products especially in Europe and North America .As the product is brand new, our development is in constant development . If you want to be part of this growth, we will be happy to introduce you to this fantastic challenge.
