How holography works (entire explanation)

In summary, holography works by using interference patterns between two components of light (object and reference light) and the phase and coherence of light to create a reconstruction of the original light wave. This allows for the recreation of a three-dimensional image of an object. The interference waves confuse our sight/recognition process and our brain assembles what we see the best it can, resulting in the appearance of a 3D object.
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Helping Sazar

Well maybe Sazar and I do not understand the details.
Sazar it is important that it can be cut up and shows all of it.

That makes it totally different than a paper printout.
The bits on the sheet in question have 'knowledge' about the entire picture. That is what draws me into this.

Lets try an analogy.
Each hologram sings a chord (yes ahhhhhh or doooooooo) and the chorus is set into triplets similar to the rgb pockets of your screen.
If the entire screen is blue then cutting it up still reveals blue but with less intensity.
If the chorus is cut up each sings the same chord but at a lower intensity.
Depending on your angle you hear a variance of the chord.
How to relate the vibrations on the spot to make this analogy work the rest of the way such as in an animation is for the next post to describe? :)
We are looking for a mechanical animated understanind of photons interacting with the smallest elements of the hologram.
I would like to know how the different views are stored in one area and the whole view is stored on each spot.
It is similar to DNA in that way. The source code for your entire body is in about every part of your body.
Seems very inefficient and redundant yet a hologram stores that way but allows a different DNA to be stored in every cell AND a different DNA for each angle that the cell is viewed from?

Explaining how it works as mechanically as possible with as much Newtonian concepts as possible works best for those who have expertise elsewhere. It is a grand compliment and gesture to explain this to the average guy in average terms.
 
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or simply stated Sazar we need to get into the Wave club to understand and avoid being 'Newtonian Nuisances'
 

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