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- From: jna@silver.lcs.mit.edu (right here, right now)
- Subject: Re: lasers/collimated light i
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.023057.20134@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:30:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.072835.7253@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
- >"glen mead" <glen.mead@canrem.com> writes:
- >>jlange@radian.uucp (John Lange) writes:
- >>JL>In nightclubs I have recently seen light effects which apparently
- >>JL>use bright red, green, and blue lasers which are modulated with
- >>JL>mirrors (I think) to do interesting things like project color
- >>JL>images on a wall. The red could be a simple He-Ne laser, but what
- >>JL>about the green and the blue?
- >
- > I suspect you are seeing a xenon lamp fronted by a color wheel and
- >mirror galvonometers, all computer controlled. These are now a common
- >disco lighting gadget. The beam is collimated well enough that it looks
- >like a laser beam, but it isn't. Look for leakage of white light from
- >the unit.
- >
- > John Nagle
-
- The device you describe is called an "Emulator". They're nice. and they
- were basically produced when many of the states passed Laser Laws , banned
- high-power lasers.
-
- -- John
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