Recording and Demonstration of Cultural Assets by Color Holography (I)

Analysis for the Optimum Color Reproduction

Abstract

One of the goal of holography is to obtain a three-dimensional image in natural color. By recent development of the new recording material and its processing, the possibility of higher level utilization of color holography is being realized. One of the promissing application of the color holography is to record cultural assets and to demonstrate them by hologram. To realize this, analysis of the color reproduction and discussion of the color hologram as the color recording system is necessiated.
In this paper, the color of the image reconstructed by a Lippmann color hologram is evaluated using CIE chromaticity diagram for the first report of the study on the application of color holography to the recording and demonstration of the cultural assets. The wavelengths of the three recording primaries for optimizing the color reproduction are calculated taking into account the wavelength selectivity of the hologram.