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hi-farm is doing various kinds of laser performance.

Straight beam and light like aurora, this is the laser performance.

Recently, chances that you encounter laser show in not only live show, but also exibition, sports, outdoor event, jncludes synchronizing with illumination are increasing.

hi-farm is doing high-quality performance that synchronizing with music by elaborating lasers, because of experiences of live, outdoor event, CM, etc…
Furthermore, I propose suitable plan to fit your budget and performance.
And I can create interactive laser performance reacting to external elements that motion and music because I am programmer, too.
I can co-exist interactive feature and elaborating laser program seamless, that I developed feature.

various type of laser performance

It is becoming difficult to understand what is good, and not good at, though there are many people who are familiar with laser performance.
First, I introduce general type of laser performance.

Laser beam performance

It is the most common laser performance.
It is able to perform powerful that is different from movie and light by using laser over audiences head.

Example of beam performance

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Laser graphic performance

Laser is good at line drawing. So laser can draw characters and graphics.

However, drawing laser graphics needs high quality scanner than laser beams. For example, if the scanner is not enough quality, laser graphics are flickering that is hard to see them.
I design laser performance tuning and working up purpose of performance, and aim for satisfying with clients by working out the best solution in budget and other sides.

Example of graphic performance

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Various types of laser performance

I introduce you other types of laser performance though it is similar to type that I mentioned before.

1. Fusion with projection mapping

I did laser performance that synchronizing with movie and music, projection mapping show held in Yugawara-cho.
I did beam/graphic laser performance and aurora with lighting drones.
I created some part of drone’s light.

2. Outdoor laser performance

I projected towards to garden at Shinagawa season terrace.I confirmed the area that enable to enter / not enter with client.

3. Interactive performance

This movie shows projected interactively cooperate with TouchDesigner that is develop environment for media art and interactive content and Kinect.
Besides this, it can coorperate with audio input and Ableton live.

This movie shows that convert movie file to laser.

4. Overall type

I perform combining with various types of performances completely synchronizing with movie.
In this movie, I projected laser to the cube type screen and performed spaces with making use of laser beam and graphics.

hi-farm can propose laser plan and propose to fit client’s order.
If you are interested in laser, please feel free to contact me via Contact.

About handling laser machine and safety

Recently it becomes easier to buy laser machines because prices of lasers are cheap and easier to operate laser.
However, laser beam is the light that high density, so laser operator needs to create plans to understand the risk of laser firmly, before they operate laser.
In worst case, it may cause accidents such as damage to the lens of camera and projector and blindness.

hi-farm has a LASA safety administorator license to handle laser projector correctly, and will operate with careful attention to safety.
And I can do operate after solving the issues to operate laser overseas in law and regulation because I have experience operating laser in US and Tanzania and I have friends overseas.


Reference movie: You can check the damage by laser beam in this movie.

And also please check it:
Related works

Beyond is software for laser operation released by Pangolin.
Unlike Quickshow, it is suitable for full-scale use.

There are more kinds of tools for producing beams, and Quickshow has only one type of timeline or it was hard to copy, but in this case it can be operated more easily, shortening production time,
In addition, functions such as mesh warp which can be used for mapping and sync system such as MTC(MIDI Timecode) are also enriched with external communication functions.

When it comes to higher version, 3D correspondence is also done, and it is possible to produce a show with high quality quickly.
Just a price … is expensive… However I understand the quality of Beyond..

About Beyond:
http://pangolin.com/product-category/software-license/

QuickShow is an application for operating lasers released by Pangolin.
I think that it is suitable software as an introductory one that can operate the laser very easily using this software.

Quickshow mainly uses ILDA for control.
Moreover, it can not control with just only this software, and a device called “FB3” is essential between the ILDA cable and the USB cable from the PC.

This is because of the nature for beginners, or the features of the details are not enough.
Although there is no problem if it is only to issue an existing laser, when creating a beam by yourself or controlling the timing of the laser according to the time axis, there are lack of detailed functions such as copy and multiple movements and so many useless You will be using working hours.

If you do it in earnest, it may be better to buy the upper software Beyond.

About Quickshow:
http://pangolin.com/shop/fb3qs-quickshow-hs/