Sample laser show videos

  "Creation" graphics show
  "Clockwork" beam show
  Beams vs. graphics
   

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Below are links to MPEG files showing videotaped laser performances. Please remember that the postage-stamp sized MPEG video is but an echo of the overwhelmingly intense laser show. It is somewhat like trying to convert an IMAX film into video -- you get the general idea, but the power and grandeur is lost!

How to play the MPEG files

Pangolin does not provide an MPEG player; however these are readily available on sites such as Tucows. If you should have trouble playing the video, try another MPEG player; for example, Windows Media Player may work better than Apple QuickTime.
        In our tests, we found that changing the file extension from ".MPG" to ".MPEG" made it possible to double-click on the filename to successfully play the video. (This is because one player was associated with ".MPG" and that player did not work well; a different player was associated with ".MPEG" and that player worked fine.)

"Creation" graphics show

"Creation", © 1995 Lightspeed Design Group. All rights reserved, used by permission.

Thumbnail size Lower image quality, faster download 7.3 MB
1/4 screen size Higher image quality, slower download 46 MB

This graphics show from Lightspeed Design Group won two first place awards in the 1996 ILDA Awards, as best graphics show and best animation sequence. It features hand-animated graphics, 3D objects, and abstracts (in the flower sequence). It also features the first use of raster graphics from standard laser projectors, an innovation which for which Lightspeed and Pangolin shared the 1996 third place ILDA Technology Achievement Award.
        Technical note: What you are seeing is being projected with one ILDA 30K-tuned scanner pair (an X and a Y galvanometer scanner). The multiple images seen in many parts of the video are a result of Pangolin's ability to easily multi-track the visuals.
        The animal at the very end (after the credits) is a pangolin!

"Clockwork" beam show

"Clockwork", © 1997, Anthropomorphic Productions. All rights reserved, used by permission.

Thumbnail size Lower image quality, faster download 3.7 MB
Thumbnail size Medium image quality, medium download speed 8.1 MB
1/4 screen size Higher image quality, slower download 28 MB

This beam show was created by Stephanie Patterson of Anthropomorphic Productions; it was her first beam show on Pangolin. The video may not show it well, but there is a nice use of colors, as well as patterns.

Beams vs. graphics

Pangolin's Lasershow Designer 2000 system comes with a number of song-length shows. Some are "beam shows", others are "graphics shows". (Click here for a list of these shows.)

• For beam shows, the idea is to make interesting patterns in the air. For example, if you scan a circle, the audience sees a cone of light coming from the projector. In the MPEG videos of beam shows, you don't see the beams -- you see the patterns. So if you see a circle, imagine a cone of light. Or if you see a row of dots, imagine a row of beams. (We have not yet videotaped the beams directly because we don't yet have all the equipment to do this well.)

• For graphics shows, the MPEG video shows the graphics. Of course, there is a large loss of quality due to video colors being less intense, flicker caused by frame rate incompatibilities, and severe MPEG compression.

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