LD2000 A-LA-CARTE Feature Scheme

Instead of upgrading to the next Pangolin LD2000 version, why not just add the features that you require?

1. TRACKS AND SCANNERS (LD & Showtime)
   LD Intro allows editing of 3 tracks and LD Basic allows editing of 16 tracks. If you want to purchase additional tracks for either package, the costs is calculated per track. When you reach 16 tracks you can assign tracks to 2 scanners, and when you reach 32 tracks you can assign tracks to up to 20 scanners.
   
   
2. ABSTRACT GENERATOR (LD & Showtime)
   LD Intro comes with one oscillator bank and LD Basic comes with two. Both of these only allow basic waveforms such as sine, triangle, square etc. You can purchase additional oscillator banks individually, or have total access all waveforms and frames.
   
   
3. FRAME TYPES (LD)
   LD Intro allows the creation of point-oriented frames only. You can purchase the ability to create vector-oriented frames and raster frames.
   Vector Frames - Classic laser frames are point-oriented, i.e. they are made up entirely of points that are placed in the draw area. A line may have a dozen points along it, to help smooth the scanner velocity and to add anchor and blanked features. Now, frames can also be vector-oriented; they are made up only of line vertices. A line has only two points in memory, the end points. The computer automatically add velocity, anchor and blanked points, which you control via the Projector settings/Vector display menu item.
   Raster Frames - This allows you to turn photographs (bmp, jpg or gif files) into TV- type raster pictures for unique special effects; you even have a choice of raster pattern types to choose from.
   
   
4. COLOURS (LD)
   LD Intro allows for the use of up to 24 colours and LD Basic allows up to 60 colours. If you have a LD Intro you can upgrade to having 60 colours, and Pangolin also give you the "Paint Roller" tool also.
   If you have LD Basic you can upgrade to an unlimited number of colours, including faded line endings effect.
   
   
5. 3D FRAME CREATION WITH FOUR VIEWS AND Z AXIS DATA (LD)
   Neither LD Basic nor LD Intro have the capability to create 3D frames.
   
   
6. SURFACE MAPPING TOOLS (LD)
   LD Intro basically has no surface mapping or image warping tools. LD Basic has 2D image warping tools, but no 3D surface mapping tools. You can purchase the 2D image warping tools (curves, fisheye lens, spiral, etc) and Pangolin would also include the "Numberic resize-rotate-move" tool as well; or if decide you want to purchase the 3D surface mapping tools (map onto a cube, sphere, cylinder, cone, etc) this is also available at an additional cost.
   The following images shows how a basic text projection of "Laser Visuals Ltd" can change when a simple image mapping tool is applied, remember if you have the 3D tools your projector will rotate them in 3D space:
   

   Fisheye Tool	Sphere Tool	Black hole Tool	Cube Tool

   
   
7. QUICK 3D FRAME CREATION TOOLS (LD)
   Neither LD Basic nor LD Intro include the Extrude, Spin or Lathe tools to quickly create 3D geometric objects; these capabilities can be added.
   Extrude: An extrusion takes a basic 2D shape and "thicken" it into a 3d object, i.e. like a 2D square into a 3D square - as shown below.
   Spin: Create interesting flat 2D patterns by spinng a 2D shape; i.e. a 2D rectangle spin 8 times creates a more interesting pattern - as shown below.
   Lathe: Create complex 3D lathes that will then rotate in true 3D space.
   

   Extrude Tool	Spin Tool

   
   
8. MICROSCRIBE 3D INPUT (LD)
   Neither LD Basic nor LD Intro have the capability of supporting the Microscribe 3D input device; upgrade to allow full usage of this input.
   
   
9. EXTRA EFFECTS (Showtime)
   LD Intro does not include certain perspective and depth cue effects, nor does it include the MIDI output or AUX output effect. These addtional effects can be purchased together.
   
   
10. OUTPUT A SHOW AS A SEQUENCE OF ILDA FRAMES AND AVI FILE (Showtime)
    LD Intro can not output a show as a series of ILDA frames or as an AVI multimedia file.
    AVI - Output to an AVI file is a great way of showing your laser show to a potential client. An easy way to show your customer what their corporate logo can look like rotating and zooming up from a dot. Simply select the output from QM2000 to AVI File and adjust the video properties to your requirements, to create a file that can easily be played back via Windows Media Player.
    ILDA - Output to an ILDA file so you can export and play your shows back on any other ILDA compatible laser controller.
    
    
11. TRANSITION SHAPES AND MORPHING (Showtime)
    LD Intro does not have the ability to accelerate, decelerate, ping pong, etc. Nor does it have the ability to do real-time morphing, these effects can be purchased.
    
    
12. IMAGE MASKING (Showtime)
    Neither LD Basic nor LD Intro include image masking. The masking propeties allows the laserist to design shows that have masked areas; either as blanked inside or visible only inside, as shown in the following images:
    

    Image shows that the star has a mask that is "Blanked Inside"; therefore any effect will not show inside the masked area.

    Image shows that the star has a mask that is "Visible Inside"; therefore any effect will show only inside the mask area.