Abstract: The invention resides in a module used in conjunction with other such modules in an apparatus for rapidly producing an article having a three-dimensional design comprising a base, a plurality of pins mounted on said base and said plurality of pins movable relative thereto, a plurality of drive motors corresponding in number to the number of said plurality of pins and means interconnecting each of said plurality of pins with said base, each said means being connected independently between said base and a corresponding one of said pins. A control means interconnects each of said drive means and a controller with one another to effect selective energization of said drive means.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically fabricating multi-hologram optical elements. Signal and reference beams are formed and directed along separate paths that intersect at a recording medium; and a gate is moved through a first sequence to expose a plurality of views, one at a time, to the signal beam to spatially modulate that beam. A matrix of beams, each of which converges toward a different area of the recording medium, is generated from the spatially modulated signal beam, and a mask is moved through a second sequence to pass the matrix beams onto the recording medium to record a plurality of diffraction patterns thereon.