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You may remember I posted on Patreon a while ago about Seb and I checking out an arcade pub in South London which had an original Asteroids machine. Today we were back to set up a massive screen next to that machine and recreate Asteroids using a high-power laser (4 watts, for those wondering). The photo is one of the test patterns when we were setting up the laser.Here is some quick footage I took on my phone:https://youtu.be/Ec2d3Pw0-twIt is a laser drawing a game of Asteroids in slow motion. It is white when drawing and red when moving between objects. It draws the score at the top of the screen, a few asteroids and space ship and a series of bullets being fired.The full video will be out early next year. Along with behind-the-scenes footage. Seb even shows his C++ code which controls the RGB laser. Thanks again for making this possible!

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Rémy GRANDIN

It's like a rainbow... of geometry..., sooo beautifull ^^

Matt Parker

A rainbow generated by the one laser beam (moving incredibly quickly)!

Rémy GRANDIN

Have you used smoke or chalk dust to make the ray visible like that ?

Matt Parker

Yes, we had a smoke machine (technically: water-based vapour machine) to put a bit of haze in the room and make the beams visible.