post your eye melty abstracts here

[absolom7691]

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Looking back a page. How the hell did I miss this post unless that pic was added later? Loving the "old school" feel. You, sir, need to get some video of your ion rig running full-steam!

[DZ]

Looking back a page. How the hell did I miss this post unless that pic was added later? Loving the "old school" feel. You, sir, need to get some video of your ion rig running full-steam!

ha! Here's a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kGRF3JuNM
I've been playing around with automating the 2nd scan head and effects. I've been putting SMPTE on channel 6 of my wave files, on playback I'm using the TC2000 to run Pangolin's Showtime. I'm impressed at how well Showtime handles SMPTE instead of it's internal time code. Anyway, I guess that's all kinda off topic stuff, sorry!

[absolom7691]

Very awesome! Definitely G120s. You can hear them!

Very cool. You cannot mistake that ion, for sure! I love seeing all of the kinematics and optical paths in these rigs! Thanks for sharing!

[ImageLight]

I wanna come live at Dave's house for awhile.....

[absolom7691]

I wanna live at Brad's house for awhile.... He's bought everything from Dave. From everyone else too, for that matter!

[swamidog]

I wanna live at Brad's house for awhile.... He's bought everything from Dave. From everyone else too, for that matter!

yes, but only if he serves us lattes.

[Bradfo69]

yes, but only if he serves us lattes.

Interestingly enough... I helped work in an independent coffee shop for awhile and have made many in one of those like, $30,000 barista machines. Frothing milk the REAL way is really an art in itself. So... yeah... I can do that.

@absolom - Come east! Truth be told, I haven't bought "everything" yet... I missed that lasercheck in the buy sell thread earlier today and, I'm still wrestling with the decision over a 3-4 watt red module from MIKKILL or however it's spelled. It's physically a lot bigger than what I can fit inside the projector case I'm getting it for which means I'd have to revamp everything.

I'm also patiently passing the waiting time (on the color mod box) by trying to finish this lumia rig I bought from Jem. There has been a number of frustrations and WTF's uttered but, I finally got something decent coming out of it tonight. I still don't understand his "vision" or design for this thing as it doesn't make complete sense to me. I think some things need to be re-positioned and something done to slow the motor speed without coming to a halt.

[DZ]

Hi all, just uploaded another flac file: https://drive.google.com/folderview?...G8&usp=sharing

The lastest file is colormodtest3.flac

I had the chance to sit down for a few minutes and play around with the color mod and managed to capture the output this time. Nothing too fancy, just some cool abstracts, no audio though. Everyone is welcome to use these as they see fit.

For what it's worth, this was recorded and played back on a MAC!

None of my pics or videos seem to turn out very well, this was about the best I could get:

[flecom]

Back in the day when lasers were still new and shiny (sorry) the then young laser companies discovered galvos and shower glass and dimple tubes and stuff. And all of these and other things were TOP SECRET. There were non-disclosure agreements, non-competes, ICs with their numbers filed off, numbered sets of documentation, and other pain in the ass stupidity… Well you just can't keep the best "secrets" - and it doesn't matter because the #1 best SECRET was right out there in front of everybody, and almost nobody thought it was important - they still don't think it's important - so anybody who gets that little SECRET has a leg up over the long run when measured against any scale except hype. I've just got to say to anybody who thinks their little bit of "IP" is original - well there's a really good chance it isn't - since all of the stuff that didn't make it into the shows way back when was still done before most here were born. Still some of the people who think it's the technology that made their shows great are friends of mine and I'll happily pretend to agree it was just the technology…

you and steve really get off on this attitude eh? you guys would probably keep the cure to cancer to yourselves too I guess?... because well, fuck everyone else

[laserist]

you and steve really get off on this attitude eh? you guys would probably keep the cure to cancer to yourselves too I guess?... because well, fuck everyone else

Anything you want to know I'll answer. I won't post somebody else's schematics, but I'll tell you what ever I know about how the stuff worked. The point of that post - It's about how you use the hardware, software, and whatever else you've got to transport the audience, and anybody that thinks it's simply a matter of how many watts of this or that, or points per second of primitive & way too literal animation, or analog this vs dac that, or pango vs whoever's thumping their chest the loudest at the moment, or somebody that thinks there are any f**king secrets in the first place that a bright person can just figure the f**k out - well damn, they're just not paying attention.