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Physical Hologram Film

Not holograms that are capable of interacting physically with the world thanks to Hard Light, but an an analogous sort of three-dimensional image found in the same places you'd expect holographic displays, but which are made out of physical components that rearrange themselves to generate an image rather than being made out of light. Like sort of high-tech animated bas relief.

Examples:

• Instead of being a hologram of a giant floating head, the version of Zordon in the recent Power Rangers reboot (or at least in the trailer) is a giant head made out of tiles sliding in and out of a wall to create depth, not unlike a Pin Screen toy.

• The graphical interfaces in Man of Steel's Kryptonian technology, which appear to be made of nanobots or something, forming themselves into highly stylize pictures. The article I liked to above claims that these were also Pin Screens, but they didn't look like it to me.

This seems to be a rather new idea in science fiction, so it would make sense for it not to be a trope yet.