Better than Star Wars: Chemistry discovery yields 3-D table-top objects crafted from light. A scientist's childhood dream of 3-D projections like those he saw in a Star Wars movie has led to development of new technology for making animated 3-D table-top objects by structuring light. The technology uses photoswitch molecules to make an infinite number of volumetric 3-D light structures viewable from 360 degrees, which will be useful for biomedical imaging, education, engineering, TV, movies, video games and more. Source 1w.
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This reminds me of that chess match in the original Star Wars. Something like that would be very interesting to watch. Characters could be exactly equipped according to what they should have rather than by the limitations of an artist's lead or plastic.