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- From: andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell)
- Subject: Re: Lasers/collimated light in RGB?
- Message-ID: <scyrz3a@SantaFe.edu>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 15:49:16 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
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- In article <rgarito.726227989@reef> rgarito@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Robert Garito) writes:
- >
- >Having many years of concert lighting experience, I can tell you that
- >it is unlikely that a night-club is using real lasers. Several lighting
- >companies (notably Intellabeam) market devices that use incandescent
- >light with optics to SIMULATE laser beams. They have a much wider
-
- Just a quick note, Intellabeam is a product name, not a company name. The
- Intellabeam does not look like a laser at all, more like a scanner. The only
- product I know of on the market at the moment that produces output which
- actually looks like a laser is the Emulator.
-
- Both the Intellabeam and Emulator are made by Lightwave research, Austin, TX
-
- Andy
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