I made a hologram!

Recently my family gave me a hologram-making kit that they found at an antique mall in Indiana. I was with them when they first spotted it among the alien masks and vintage comics, and when they pointed it out, my first thought was "yeah right there's no way that's real holograms" followed by "oh wow it looks like actual real holograms". Despite how beat-up the box looks, it still had all its original parts and film, still in their original packaging.As a laser scientist this was basically the perfect gift for me, and they sneaked back to the antique mall to pick it up. Fortunately for me, the antique mall hologram kit was not all that antique, just a few years old, and the film was still good. The company Litiholo in fact still makes these kits. The kit included a red laser, and a bunch of plastic holders that pieced together to hold the film and the laser in the right positions. A little rectangle the size of a deck of cards indicated where I could put the 3D object that I wanted to…