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Free Art ! / Re: introducing..

« Last post by James on December 05, 2021, 02:58:30 pm »

Hi Paul! Welcome to The LaserBoy Forum.

Wow! Nice pictures on your first post.

That's really cool.

I'm glad you are having fun with LaserBoy.

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Free Art ! / introducing..

« Last post by Dinther on December 04, 2021, 06:51:56 pm »

Hello, I am Paul, I wrote a nice introduction but unfortunately the computer said no.
It decided my IP address is spam. So a short one then.


Iove lasers I finally bought one. it's all I hoped and since I like pushing boundaries I am constantly looking for new ways to do things.


laser boy obviously is a serious piece of kit. I have to admit I initially went with it's looks.


priveledged to have access to so much l knowledge. I make sure I share too.


starting with this cool raster ilda files that play video derived color on a tightly wound spiral.


I hope you like it.

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Lasers / 60 Watt diode pumped ND-YAG laser for sale

« Last post by LaserLover on October 16, 2021, 06:46:03 pm »

A quick video for interested party.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tPUm8PD9XA

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: DOWNLOAD IT HERE !!!

« Last post by James on August 08, 2021, 11:47:43 am »

New version!

08-04-2021

https://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_Current.zip

This has a full implementation of LaserBoy Liquid Math, with documentation!

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by James on August 04, 2021, 11:23:32 pm »

Finally!

A new full public release of LaserBoy!!!

https://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_Current.zip

I cleaned up everything. If you already have an installation folder of LaserBoy, I would recommend renaming it as old and unzipping this in its place. Then move your files from the old folder(s) to this new one.

For Windows users: The zip no longer contains a 32-bit version.

LaserBoy.exe is now a 64-bit application.

Please let me know if you find any problems or have questions.

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: DOWNLOAD IT HERE !!!

« Last post by James on April 03, 2021, 06:32:34 pm »

Wow! That's really nice. Thank you.

If you like the current version you should check out the version I work on almost every day. It has all kinds of new features. Can you compile the source?
I'd love to have a conversation with you. I bet you have a lot of good ideas.

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: DOWNLOAD IT HERE !!!

« Last post by glaferg on April 03, 2021, 03:16:47 pm »

What would be great would be an OSC port so we could take our existing work and then apply math things to it (probably with ORCA, 100rabbits' minimal, runs-on-literally-anything livecoding library.) This is just straight art- it takes pure data and connects it to MATH and the UI is an idealized, rainbow version of your typical CLI.
I've been using this since I got a machine, a "MyEffect II" at 12. Since then I've become a programmer, learned, and this still exists; a beautiful sort of retirement for our good man James. I suspect that what a coloring book is to most people Lazserboy is to our good man James Lehmann.

Great work; you inspired me to learn code and inspired an ardence to my use of CLI tools.
You're quite possibly one of my most inspirational programmers (fathom a role a few steps below the creator of Linux, the author of Dwarf Fortress, and a role above 100Rabbits and the devs in Valve.

You have no concept how deeply your work has affected me.

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by James on March 11, 2021, 11:46:17 am »

Truss is somewhat detailed. You should think about reducing the information to the absolute minimum.

To get better looking images, you can change the parameters of optimization.

LaserBoy space is defined in 3D short integer, so X Y and Z are integer values from -32767 to +32767.

In the [Tab] menu you can set the maximum displacement in points (in the coordinate system shown above) between any two vertices.

Options 3 and 4 allow you to set this for when the laser is lit or when it is blank.

This controls the scanner velocity. A lower number is a shorter distance per clock cycle. So the scanners move slower.

Also, you can increase the dwell in corners. Dwell is a function of the acuteness of the angle so the maximum dwell in points is for a full 180 turn (a  line folding back on itself).

Lowering the max  vector distance  and adding dwell will increase the number of points in a frame. So your DAC will take that much longer to get through all of the points.

The longer it takes to scan an entire frame of points, the more  it will flicker.

If you hit the [Enter] key, the menus will disappear and reappear.

Also, look in menu x and turn on remove redundant vectors. Sometimes dxf drawings have  multiple lines where there should only be  one. With this checked, the minimization step will find them and remove them.

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by thefabricator03 on March 11, 2021, 04:27:00 am »

I managed to get a basic square to project but the corners were slightly rounded.

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LaserBoy !!! / Re: Laserboy ILDA to Laser Projector Not Working

« Last post by thefabricator03 on March 11, 2021, 04:25:21 am »

Attached is the distorted image.