Superbowl haltime show

[jander6442]

love those lasers... very schweet:drool:




EDIT: thought I post one with a direct link

 

[f22warzone]

Honestly i think the center stage looks cooler : ) lasers need a bit more fire works they look a little dim

 

[jander6442]

^ quick, post something you have a beastly #

 

[f22warzone]

lmao I never even noticed : ) look at that I finally broke 667 : )

 

[jander6442]

^ your good now

 

[daveindelaware]

The lasers were the ONLY good thing about halftime.

Well, other than when halftime was over.

Maybe it's just me, but The Who sucked big-time.

 

[Cyparagon]

Relaying from PL:

i got wind of an "unofficial" inventory list of lasers used:

(2) Arctos 20W RGB
(6) Arctos 8-10W RGB
(4) 40W LaserScopes

Over a million dollars in lasers!!!


-Marc

Yeah [Arctos is solid state]. Red at either 650 nm or 640 nm. Green at 532 nm, and blue at 445 nm. Almost all of their projectors have huge multi-diode arrays in them. Optical paths are quite involved, but the results are stunning. Here's a pic under the hood of one:

Only problem is that they are *really* expensive. But if you're in the market, Lightwave International is the sole US distributor. (And yeah, they are the guys that pulled off the Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon album cover "laser pyramid" effect...)

Adam

 

[jander6442]

Good info Cyparagon those Arctos units are amazing... if only I could win the lotto.

 

[charleytown55il]

for being in their mid sixties, the Who played a damn good show. The laser show was quite cool also.

 

[aXit]

Do you have a link to that PL thread?

Also, any idea how those red banks work?

 

[Cyparagon]

The reds are stacked with knife-edge mirrors and sent through a beam reducer, then polarizing beam splitter, then dichro.

Here's one of the threads on PL