Originally Posted by
Pangolin
Hi Swami,
Thanks for the post. I also get the impression you will be at the next SELEM. It will be great to see you there and discuss things with you. Even setting software completely aside, I am sure we have a lot in common and will have much to talk about.
some very nice pl folks have banded together and made it possible for me to be at selem.
by all means! first latte is on me.
Originally Posted by
Pangolin
Regarding one thing you wrote, I have only one comment:
Seems to me that there is at least a bit of this with all systems. For example, to the extent that you use features that only exist in LSX and no others, you would not be able to use these in another platform. So if you use what they call "Expressions" (which we might call something else and be accessible in a different way), it means you can only use these (at least in the LSX way) on the LSX platform itself. So if you want to do "their things" in "their way", you need "their software".
If you do File/Save in LSX, I doubt it is possible to load many such files even in Phoenix which should be understood as "brother software" (built on the same foundation).
If, by "platform agnostic" you mean hardware wise, then I think I'd like to show you something in person. The smoothness of motion is unmatched in Pangolin software and this is because of how we communicate with the hardware and what the hardware does. To people who have never seen Pangolin software, or especially haven't seen it running side by side with others, this might seem, frankly, unbelievable. But it's true. Phoenix (brother software), Mamba, Moncha, Fiesta, etc. are nowhere near as smooth as Pangolin, and I'll be happy to put our software side by side with any others and show this to you.
We will be investigating running Pangolin software on Phoenix hardware and vice-versa to see what can be done. I'm always happy to do experiments, but if the output quality is not as good as we typically deliver, then we won't be "going there".
Bill
sorry i wasn't very clear about this. i'm absolutely not disputing the quality of the output or the software. pangolin has clearly invested considerable time and resources into optimizing output and that effort has paid off. i'm just referring to the lack of ilda export in the newer software products.
i absolutely understand the concept of protecting show content. i have some idea of the time and effort that goes into making laser shows. , however, users should always have control of their own content. keep the protected show format, but also add an ilda export function for user created frames/shows.
i have been asked many times about making my shows available. this will happen when things become a little less crazy for me. because lsx has ilda export, i can make my shows available for lsx, fb3/qs, ld2000, etc. and everybody wins.
imagine if photoshop could not save jpg.
Last edited by swamidog; 04-16-2013 at 17:36.
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.