Starting to be a little disheartened with Pangolin Quick Show

[flecom]

running planetarium shows that no one goes to anymore.

that Doors show you hated so much sells out the planetarium every time we run it (to this day)

stick to writing software

[JohnYayas]

that Doors show you hated so much sells out the planetarium every time we run it (to this day)

stick to writing software

How often do you run it? Every weekend?

[JohnYayas]

James, you are wrong. I know exactly how I could squeeze the information into a WAV file. I know about the custom headers that are allowed. I know all about it. I wrote a program called Bombora that streams 8 channel WAV files to laser devices and even offers real time control of everything that I have talked about. It can be done. But, it is so in-frickin-efficient. For one sounds track and one projector it is manageable. For multiple projectors, multiple media, etc, the file becomes so huge and unwieldy that it is worthless. Not only have I imagined what you ar talking about I have already implemented a good deal of it. So stop parroting the same old "you can't image it" and "you refuse to accept it" BS. If you want to state your case then get down to brass tacks and explain how you would do what I have asked about in an efficient manner that is easy for the user to deal with and quick in the CPU. Reprocessing a 1GB wave file to correct color data is not an acceptible answer in my opinion.

WOW! One full hour of six projectors featuring a single white dot! That sounds like a fantastic show! Would you be offering pre-sale tickets to that? Can I order now?

You can make a wave file of only a few samples and loop it indefinitely. Like I said before, LaserBoy can do color re-scaling. A 256 element table of 14 bit translations can be stored in the header for each of possibly four color control channels in the wave. This means that the byte values found in the vector art on the computer can be exchanged for any positive 14 bit values in the wave, and translated back to the correct byte values when opening the wave back into LaserBoy.

The LaserBoy wave header also has a matrix that identifies the contents of every track and how many significant bits it is, plus global and individual track polarity indicators.

You just can't image how these thing might work because you refuse to do so.

James.

[JohnYayas]

Anyway, call me a quitter or whiner or whatever you want but I am taking a break from this thread and this forum.

[Things]

Back to, uhh, whatever we were on about, Draw3D is another part of that "package" who's name escapes me right now, and it's basically just an ILDA frame editor. Not sure if it's still being updated, but it seemed to work the last time I used it. I too have noticed the weird colour glitches out of trace-it, but I also have not tried the different colour export options it has, so it may just be an issue with a specific one.

[flecom]

How often do you run it? Every weekend?

no we only do shows once a month, and rotate shows in and out, so its kind of random really

remember our target audience is high out of their mind, so they have no idea whats happening really

[DZ]

remember our target audience is high out of their mind, so they have no idea whats happening really

lol! As long as they bring cash then that's all that matters!

[flecom]

thats right!

there are also a lot of people that just enjoy seeing the same show over and over I guess, and the crowd that just watches the show and listens to their own soundtrack on headphones and a PMP of some kind

we have made shows for newer music, and most of them do terribly at the box office, people want to see the same pink floyd/led zeppelin/doors shows over and over again... only newer music show that did well was Radiohead

[Stuka]

Anyone remember what this thread was about?

[laserist]

Self justification?