Show Posts
1
LaserBoy !!! / Is this possible in Laserboy?
« on: February 05, 2015, 11:06:57 pm »
Hi everyone,
I'm a newbie to working with lasers and control, but I'm trying to do something a little bit different and I'm not quite sure if it's possible with Laserboy - at least not in the way I'm thinking of it. The way I understand Laserboy so far is that you sketch your patterns frame by frame, save/output as one of multiple formats and push this out to a laser through a DAC. (I do not yet have any laser hardware and have just installed this program an hour ago so I'm still working a lot out, I'm not even sure how to run a show! I'm just trying to save a few thousand dollars using the open source stuff.
)
In terms of patterns I'm not trying to do anything fancy, I'm just interested in a single line, and I'd like to change it's length over time. This is implemented in a straightforward way with a periodic looping animation that has the line growing and shrinking. What I would like to achieve is the ability to edit the framerate of this animation in real time - but it seems to me that the files may be output and shown at a particular rate, and that's that.
There seems to be a lot of helpful advice on the forum so if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful. I was hoping to run a very basic show where I could speed up some animations through some TCP/IP networking on a mobile device so I don't have to be at the terminal. 
If I'm unable to edit the framerate in real time I'm stuffed!
I'm a newbie to working with lasers and control, but I'm trying to do something a little bit different and I'm not quite sure if it's possible with Laserboy - at least not in the way I'm thinking of it. The way I understand Laserboy so far is that you sketch your patterns frame by frame, save/output as one of multiple formats and push this out to a laser through a DAC. (I do not yet have any laser hardware and have just installed this program an hour ago so I'm still working a lot out, I'm not even sure how to run a show! I'm just trying to save a few thousand dollars using the open source stuff.
)In terms of patterns I'm not trying to do anything fancy, I'm just interested in a single line, and I'd like to change it's length over time. This is implemented in a straightforward way with a periodic looping animation that has the line growing and shrinking. What I would like to achieve is the ability to edit the framerate of this animation in real time - but it seems to me that the files may be output and shown at a particular rate, and that's that.
There seems to be a lot of helpful advice on the forum so if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.
I was hoping to run a very basic show where I could speed up some animations through some TCP/IP networking on a mobile device so I don't have to be at the terminal. If I'm unable to edit the framerate in real time I'm stuffed!