At times I swear I'm almost better at making (random?) connections than James Burke. It's one of those mental exercises where everything is a puzzle piece that may fit in certain ways. The downside at times it can lead to kooky sounding ideas or catching onto trends or ideas years ahead of time. A useless talent, because I can't really put it in the context of a story like a good sci-fi writer.

I hope I don't put too many spoilers out there because of that. In this case I predict awesomeness no matter what.

BTW, I managed to find a guy on Youtube that made an XY laser scanner as a hobby project and even said he tried one of the things I was thinking of. Apparently there were problems (no details - other than certain things get garbled), I figure inertia seems to be one of the roadblocks on the small budget level. I suspect resonance and secondary vibrations within a rig might be another one. The seemingly easy answer would make the thing as small as possible with the least mass to throw around. But then budget becomes an issue while maintaining the precision it would need to work. The economics for certain things may not favor the typical non-commercial hobbiest approach.

Now if you can figure out how to rapidly and precisely alter the focal plane... That's even cooler! Anyhow, that's getting too tricky quite fast and seems outside the realm of more traditional mechanical approaches (my imagination wanders into hypothetical lenses using the optical properties of fluids and altering their densities), so I won't go there.

Ok...  That was offtopic for Carrara. But if Carrara is used as an element of something that integrates neat visuals into a sucessful display technology project - that's cool! Right?

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