In February 2016, NASA announced the LIGO experiment detected gravitational waves caused by the merger of two black holes. The accompanying illustration showed an accretion disk with a helix of energy emitting from the center. Since the LIGO detector is basically a giant laser interferometer, I decided it would be fitting to do my own illustration using lissajous and lumia laser effects.
this is a photograph i made using laser projection. no photoshop compositing or effects. i used one laser projector running LSX with an etherdream dac to create the stars and the lissajous lines. the other laser projector made the lumia "galaxy". i built both of the laser projectors.
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this is a photograph i made using laser projection. no photoshop compositing or effects. i used one laser projector running LSX with an etherdream dac to create the stars and the lissajous lines. the other laser projector made the lumia "galaxy". i built both of the laser projectors.
