365. Repel Mode
October 19th, 2026
1 hr 9 mins 44 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Merlin
- Tyriq
Topics:
- Holograms for the eyes & ears (making holograms & immersive binaural recordings)
- Merlin's holography references:
- Process for creating Denisyuk holograms (single-beam reflection holograms): http://www.holography.ru/les1eng.htm
- More in-depth info (MIT Open Courseware): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mas-450-holographic-imaging-spring-2003/9668ed9d2cbf0b127b5c1d1a770b2275_ch16inlinereflectionh.pdf
- Or another explanation you may prefer: https://holographer.com/single-beam-reflection-holograms
- I also mentioned transmission holograms (which requires a laser beam of the same wavelength to reconstruct/view the hologram, but can achieve greater depth)
- Also might have mentioned the Litiholo kits – which provide a more instant, darkroom-less, "Polaroid-style" holography process. I made some of these, removed the plastic film with the recorded holo, and cut them up for use in jewelry: https://litiholo.com/
- "Astropilot" Soviet arcade machine, ft. Pepper's ghost effect (NOT a hologram): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAShNzaj6s
- Josh Ellingson also does some cool Pepper's Ghost art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPt7oqunrbg
- I realized the term I was looking for, to define (IMO) a hologram, is PARALLAX! Where it looks different based on the viewing angle, and also creates the illusion of depth with binocular vision :)
- Immersive binaural stereo recording:
- Recordings I made with my old Hooke Audio binaural-mic earbuds...
- Resonant tunnel singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HLV7SG-h4g
- Rain & crickets along Mystic River, MA: https://soundcloud.com/alexglow/rain-crickets-along-mystic-river-ma-spatial-audio
- Imogen Heap performing Hide and Seek inside a decommissioned nuclear reactor (during Music Tech Fest 2018): https://www.instagram.com/tv/BnbfFaPg6AB
- Reaktorhallen tour: https://www.instagram.com/tv/BnZiRqPg4fv
- More on the reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1_(nuclear_reactor)
- Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset = the set of recording earbuds I currently use: https://hifiplus.com/articles/sennheiser-ambeo-smart-headset-binaural-recording-earphones
- Merlin's holography references:
- What it's like to fall in love for the first time at 36?
- Attract mode
- God is Change by Octavia Butler
Microtopics:
- The AAA studio making Scrubbin' Trubble 2.
- The Amnesia Fortnight kickstarter.
- Inviting the entire games industry to participate in PiCoSteveMo.
- What common English words have "merlin" in them.
- Custom circuit boards for changing your brain functions.
- In-season fruits.
- The partner who gets people to pay you.
- How hard is the "supposed to" supposed to?
- Going to jail for paying taxes incorrectly.
- An independent study in holography.
- Approaching the Altar to Holography and making sure all the inner tubes are evenly inflated.
- Stamped-foil holograms.
- Bertrand Fluffle.
- Head Related Transfer Function.
- 2D vs. 3D Pepper's Ghost.
- Hologram, or "complete writing"
- Whether Princess Leia is a hologram.
- Interference-based situations.
- The mall globe thingamajigs.
- Yelling at random people not to give you unsolicited advice.
- Fediverse like transmission reliability.
- Deciding to fall in love for anthropological purposes.
- Asking the person who just confessed love for you what you're supposed to do with this information.
- LOL. LMAO, even.
- Two people who think that the same Spanish words are cool.
- Thinking really hard about how to make your child be a good person.
- Relationship red flags and green flags.
- Liking yourself and thinking you're pretty cool.
- Getting some good art about your relationship situation.
- Slot machine attract modes.
- The three little pigs slot machine expanded universe.
- Snood on the iPod Touch.
- What does and doesn't count as attract mode.
- The UFO 50 text entry screen.
- The UFO 50 attract mode process.
- Who made the Ding Dong Dang backend?
- Whether attract mode should show high aspirational level play vs. poor play.
- Mobile game ads that show you the player being very bad at the game vs. mobile game ads that just show you something incredibly gross.
- Whiskey and Blue Whiskey.
- Whether your hair color comes across on audio.
- Everyone's attract mode is someone else's repel mode.
- Paying 25 cents to get the jukebox to play no music for three minutes.
- Countering the previous guy's jukebox selection by putting in a nega quarter that mutually dissolves the regular quarter.
- Arcade attract modes that are so annoying that you put in a quarter just to make them stop.
- Earthseed vs.Earthsea.
- The Serenity Prayer.
- Wherewithal, fortitude, chutzpah, stick-to-it-iveness.
- A two-poem show.
- Fascination with texts that are parsed in a non-religious way.
- The Tyriq tag.
- The Tags are Clean.