Comment by Vakaiser
10 hours ago
While this is interesting, what I really wanted to see was more 'graffiti' and less 'laser'.
Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property as a form of artistic self expression. To that end, why not combine this with a laser engraver instead of a laser pointer?
Imagine hooking this up and then literally carving your graffiti into the side of a brick building. Or burning it into the paint on a metal container car.
Obviously such a thing has the potential for serious bodily harm and could start building or wild fires inadvertently, to say nothing of the energy consumption requirements such a laser engraver would necessitate.
Counterpoint: rule of cool.
You’ll probably burn your retinas with the backscatter
"Can you tell the jury what you told investigators when you decided to use computerized directed energy weapons to target civllian infrastructure?"
"...rule of cool?"
Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.
Ask the people who have to clean it off.