post your eye melty abstracts here

[colouredmirrorball]

There is a "Plug-in" inbound for LSX.

Steve

I don't know anything about 4 fold symmetry and if you want to be all mysterious about it, fine, but I want to know how you can create a plugin for lsx!

[Galvonaut]

I don't know anything about 4 fold symmetry and if you want to be all mysterious about it, fine, but I want to know how you can create a plugin for lsx!

Me neither, I just spent several hours trying to create 2 fold symmetry in LSX and it failed miserably because I can't figure out how to get the hidden surfaces underneath other objects without masking the one I want to show.

Keith

[swamidog]

Like this?


http://youtu.be/TvCzh4DXAdk

Me neither, I just spent several hours trying to create 2 fold symmetry in LSX and it failed miserably because I can't figure out how to get the hidden surfaces underneath other objects without masking the one I want to show.

Keith

[Galvonaut]

Like this?


http://youtu.be/TvCzh4DXAdk

Yes, just like that except with phased circles within sfx loops

[mixedgas]

OK, HINT:

Envision a console:

You have four scan heads, red, yellow, blue, green
Each is scanning the same abstract, or two heads are scanning abstract A and two heads are scanning abstract B.

You can slave the heads to the same offset joystick, have 4 clipping windows each rotated 90 degrees, and also can rotate each image.

Hum, What can you do? Hint, you end up emulating my favorite Laserium show.

So a typical effect might be to light up each head, move it a small offset, rotate slightly, generating a load of new colors.

The another effect might be to translate each image outward along one axis, rotate it at the end of its travel, and bring it back in to overlap,

It gets even more interesting when you apply clipping windows and chop the color signals.

Lets see what you come up with.

Steve

[Galvonaut]

Ahhh! Clipping windows! I hadn't tried that!

Thanks Steve

Keith

[laserist]

Ok technically Laserium didn't have multiple clipping windows - We had a single X/Y Clipper that an image could be sent through and the emerging signal could be rotated by variable angles fed from a joystick or some other source and/or several different fixed angles per scanner. The same or second joystick also had several fixed rotation offset options. Variable Z axis rotation via joystick with swept spirals and colormod is a profound performance effect that is used in Ride My See Saw in Laserium Light Years

This Photo was taken by Craig at a St. Louis Photography Club outing to Laserium
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[polishedball]

Adding different turn in scan thru effects per head makes it even more interesting. You can then put a star effect on one color, crystal effect on another, diffraction n so on. Makes for cool layering.

OK, HINT:

Envision a console:

You have four scan heads, red, yellow, blue, green
Each is scanning the same abstract, or two heads are scanning abstract A and two heads are scanning abstract B.

You can slave the heads to the same offset joystick, have 4 clipping windows each rotated 90 degrees, and also can rotate each image.

Hum, What can you do? Hint, you end up emulating my favorite Laserium show.

So a typical effect might be to light up each head, move it a small offset, rotate slightly, generating a load of new colors.

The another effect might be to translate each image outward along one axis, rotate it at the end of its travel, and bring it back in to overlap,

It gets even more interesting when you apply clipping windows and chop the color signals.

Lets see what you come up with.

Steve

[mixedgas]

Thanks Laserist,

That brings back good memories. I was more or less thinking of the Sheep and Geese frames in the Floyd show, but you got it....

Steve

[Bradfo69]

I've gotta get my act together and drag out LSX. Some amazing things starting to pop up.

Am I actually envisioning a projector with four separate galvo sets with each individual module - say 532, 445, 640 and some stupid crazy expensive yellow all firing into a galvo independently? What a mess of wiring and power supplies, mounts mirrors etc! A little part of me is scratching my head without pictures or a diagram or something.