Blaize 3

Software to turn your projector into a safe disco laser
Blaize 3 Demo
Blaize 3 HowTo

Releases

You can find prebuilt binaries for each release on the release page.

Note for mac users:
If you download the prebuilt releases, they are considered suspicious and receive a quarantine flag. This results in errors such as The application is corrupted and should be removed and the application not starting. This can be prevented either by installing Processing 3 yourself and running the program from source OR (quicker) by removing the quarantine flag from the app. To remove the flag open a terminal window (Spotlight search [CMD+Space], type "Term...") and execute the following commands:
Navigate to where Blaize was downloaded. You can partially type the directory names (e.g. "Blai...") and press TAB multiple times to autocomplete:
cd ~/Downloads/Blaize_v3.0.1_macos-x86_64
Remove quarantine flag:
sudo xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine Blaize_V3.app

Users

You'll need a standard projector and a fog machine. Head over to Blaize 3 Demo to see what Blaize can do and to Blaize 3 HowTo to learn how to download and use it. Have fun and feel free to share some pictures/videos when it's working!

Pro tip: Set the contrast and saturation of your projector to maximum for even more vivid colors.

Developers

Blaize 3 is currently not under active development, although I plan to integrate some feature requests from users in the YouTube comments in 2022 and unclutter the code in general. Feel free to integrate your own ideas or even re-structure the code. It's not the cleanest, as it started as one of my first Java/Processing projects. If you have any questions or requests, you can contact me via email (bodgedbutworks<(at)>aerotrax<(dot)>de) or on Instagram (@bodgedbutworks).

You will need Processing 3 to run the code: Processing download

If you're missing libraries, you can simply install them using Processing's built-in library manager.