A graphics engine for laser projectors. (unfinished / work in progress)

This project aims to support runtime interactive laser projection.

I'm interested in finding collaborators for this project. Find my email and contact me!

Keywords: laser projector, projection, lasers, scanning, DAC, EtherDream, Ether Dream.

1. DAC Support
   1. Ether Dream -- working (incomplete, inefficient)
   2. ...
2. Point Streaming
   1. Frame Streams (frames contain point paths and can be replayed until a new frame is ready) -- working (incomplete, inefficient, buggy)
   2. Raw Point Streams -- no need currently; going to defer this for later
3. 2D Graphics Engine / Pipeline
   1. Matrix Stack and Transforms -- mostly implemented, but awful code
   2. Clipping -- not yet started
   3. ...
4. 3D Graphics Engine / Pipeline -- not yet started
   1. Vetorization
   2. Backface culling
   3. Clipping
   4. View frustum
   5. ...
5. Projection Features -- Not yet started
   1. Multi-Dac projection
   2. Projection Control
      1. Projection Boundaries
      2. Projection Resizing
      3. Matrix Projection Mapping
      4. Spherical and/or Polygon Projection Mapping
6. Algorithmically Optimized Realtime Streaming -- not yet started
   1. Dynamic Tracking (object to object)
   2. Topological Path Optimization (TSP, etc.)
   3. Dynamic Blanking
7. Bindings / Scripting -- not yet started, may elect not to do
   1. Python bindings
   2. Lua scripting

See lasers.io for videos of my laser projection work.

• Laser Asteroids, my first Python laser projector game
• Laser Testbed, my earliest laser experiments in Python including interactive animations, OpenCV, Graffiti Markup Language, and more.
• Laser Client, simple laser shows that cycle. I actually wrote this to run "advertisements" or text displays. Some parts of the code are based on "Laser Testbed", and much remains to be backported.