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Shall I awake the dead? The thread isn't that old yet, but been quiet for awhile. I read each post with interest, yellow has been of interest to me for years, finally after 8 years as a laser hobbyist I have some decent power yellow from an ebay purchase, 2 watts of it, it cost me over two grand...

No, AVI isn't producing shows like they did years ago. The staff isn't as big anymore - but dedicated. Good people! They're doing a lot of non-planetarium-laser show stuff these days. Added to that, most Skylase systems are still the older ones with CT scanners and run at 30K. Only the new Skylase...

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Done. See everyone later this Summer! Greg

I didn't read all of the previous posts so when I saw this I was sort of lost on what you were talking about and the first thing I thought of were those meatball subs that Brad made for us. :)

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OK, now it's time to bring out the boys' choir...

https://laserboy.org/free_art/flexy.zip

If you didn't mind screwing with the logo a bit, a 5 point holographic grating @45 degrees could do the complex font in one pass. You'd need a second laser for the simple fonts, or cut the grating to allow the simple fonts to miss. Or a smoking fast actuator for the grating would work too...

One final option might be to try scanning this as a raster image. Otherwise, I agree that you'll need to simply the logo DRAMATICALY if you want to scan it as a vector image. Adam

See what I did to the Letter "F"? Do that to the rest of the letters. Keep your scan angle down when programming, to match the actual throw distance to the image. I emptied out the letter and sealed it so the auto-trace only sees the outer perimeter. Steve

Or break it into parts. Main logo spins up, dims out, then web address is displayed,, dims out, then scroll text across. Repeat I would eliminate many of the horizontal bands in the main text. Steve

that logo is way too complex for laser projection. you either need to drastically reduce the complexity or scan it across multiple projectors.

If you have questions, just ask. There are quite a few things to know that could save you a lot of time and give you better results.

Hi, on the first view of your Bitmap you can use every Tool what you want to use. It's so complex that it probably can't be scanned well on 2 projectors separately. Tracing Result using my Tracer (Centerline Tracing ) is about 1250 Poins without Start/End Repeats and Interpolation. I...

Awesome thank you I will give that a try!

You could make a copy of any of the fonts that are there, name it something else and only have to draw the letters you use in the logo. The font rendering system in LaserBoy will position the glyphs.

You can render vector fonts into a frame with LaserBoy. You might not get exactly that logo, but you will probably be able to read it when projected.

PM me with a shipping addy and you can have an Etherdream for a while. Steve

Thanks for the link. Probably easier than going thru the site😁

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