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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

Indeed, the gadget is called a Scanner, popular makes are Roboscan and Robozap,
they consist of a color wheel (gobi), a pattern gobi and a shutter along with
an Xenon MSR1200 lamp (1.2kW). The scanners are chained together in a bus
network configuration, the whole lot is run by a PC (Roboscan 2032 controller
is a PC AT) A top of the range Roboscan costs approx 8000 dollars.

Something that looks more like a laser is called an Emulator, they are made
by a nevada company, whos name escapes me at the moment.

Anyone here built any disco lighting effects? I'd like to hear from you.

Andy



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