Mixed results I have to say. It was great to meet the operators and see some 445nm coherence light in real life. The music and beam shows were great as well as the abstracts. There were parts when there was a dizzying amount of effects being overlaid with 3 laser projectors, 30 or so raster projectors that covered the dome, fog, and blasting bass music.
That said, they had major problems with either the scanners or the scanner switching matrix bandwidth that caused graphic detail to look like total garbage. For example for an eagle fly-in, from far away the eagles head looked like a bunch of randomly slashed lines that jumped all over the place (per frame), it didn't resemble a head with beak at all until it was zoomed in significantly. Most of the time circles looked like 'C's and none of the shapes were closed. Also there were blanking desynchronisation issues at times so not only do you get garbage detail, but it jumped around in an annoying noisy fashion. The animation was typically very well done but sometimes the song interpretation bordered on childish.
It was a good experience, I'm glad I went because it helped solidify what to do and what not to do. And thanks Steve for the keyswitch!
Photos were not allowed to be taken at the show sorry and you don't just want to see our ugly mugs again you?
