Rendering Ambient Occlusion with Scanline Renderer in 3DS Max

Here are some examples of my projects that use the “Pepper’s Ghost” effect. It’s called “Pepper’s Ghost” because it was used in a stage act in the 1800s and made popular by John Pepper. Sometimes it’s was called “Pepper’s Mystery”. Anyway, there weren’t TVs or iPads to reflect off of back then, so they did it with a large piece of glass and objects hidden offstage that were illuminated by gaslight. To the audience, they would appear as ghosts. In my work, I avoid calling them holograms. Hologram

Default Scanline Rendering an object with its shadow on transparent ground plane in 3Ds Max