Hi all.
I just joined, glad to be here!
For a while, I've been doing graphical things using Native Instruments' Reaktor program, and recently someone suggested I should try to use it to control lasers! So I have ordered a Laserworld CS-500RGB KeyTEX to experiment with. I've created some ensembles with Reaktor that draw wireframe diagrams using Reaktor's "XY" module when it's set to act like an oscilloscope:
https://www.native-instruments.com/e...try/show/6857/
These output audio that is actually the X and Y coordinates of the dot as it scans across the screen. After doing some research, I discovered that the ILDA connector is just analog inputs. So I think I can just take the signals and run them through some amplification circuitry to make them +/- 5V in amplitude, then run those into the X and Y lines on the ILDA connector and it will draw the picture!
Since I built that Reaktor ensemble I've started working on outputting separate values for the left and right eye to do 3D. I have a new one that sends out a 3rd signal that is high or low depending on whether the left or right eye is being drawn. I'm hoping I can build some circuits to make the R, G, and B voltages change so that the beam will be red while drawing the image for the left eye and then turn blue while drawing the image for the right eye. If that doesn't work, I might have to get a separate laser projector and draw the red and blue images at the same time.
A few weeks ago I did a show with an improvisational group where I controlled some Reaktor 3D stuff using a normal projector, not lasers. We gave out 3D glasses to people and they liked it. That looked similar to this:
http://www.marksmart.net/ReaktorAnaglyph03.mkv
But I think I can do WAY better with lasers.
In searching around the web, I haven't seen much info about doing anaglyphic 3D like this with lasers. It seems like the perfect way to do it, since lasers are so exact in color. Has anyone on here tried anything like this?
Mark Smart
Laser Newbie