webolife wrote:You continue to refer to the image as being somehow "carried" by the ray or wavefront, which I don't get...
Don't get too hung up on the word "carried". Saying that the ray "
carries the image" is like saying, "The screen carries the words of this sentence." The way I see it, your array also carries the image as well... if it didn't there is no way that we could see the image, because there would be no image there to see. Saying that something carries the image is just another way of saying that it is the
medium that holds the image.
webolife wrote: ...No problem with the little image produced inside the wider blur from the projector...
I'm not following how you can suppose that the "
little image produced by the projector" isn't a problem for your array of vectors, unless the image is spread uniformly throughout the whole array. And if that is the case, then I don't necessarily see any significant difference between your array and my "wave front". Also, the process of "
focusing the blur" seems to be very similar to my "
transformation from holographic to non-holographic aspects of light." So either I do not understand what you're trying to express or I don't understand why you insist on claiming there is a distinction between our views. The language we use to describe those views is obviously different, but I'm not sure the actual views (as described) necessitate a significantly different understanding of the process.
webolife wrote:...Looking directly through the slit toward a light source/sink, you see the customary image of the ambient "picture" just as you would without the slit, but in addition the slit arrays the pressure gradient of the light field which appears to the sides...
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say here, but I'm assuming by "
slit" you're referring to the double-slit set up--otherwise I'm not sure what the point is. And you're suggesting that what happens to "
blur the image" is that the array becomes "
composed" of two "
images" and/or sources of light. One source of light is the [image that we would normally see] and the other source of light is the "
pressure gradient of the light field which appears to the sides". I'm not entirely sure what this means, but it sounds suspiciously like my claim that
the reason the light takes on the holographic aspect is because light coming from a different angle interfers with the image carrying ligh in question.
Again, while there are certain to be differences in the details of what we believe, it seems to me that we may simply be using different language to describe (more-or-less) the same process.