{"id":1628,"date":"2007-03-11T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:28","slug":"large-scale-tagging-with-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/11\/large-scale-tagging-with-lasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale tagging with lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/123\/396081005_aeeec1c854.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/169\/396081705_25539b75fc.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nCheck out the building in the top photo &#8212; it possibly has the largest graffiti tag ever on a building.<\/p>\n<p>But, it also had hundreds of other tags on its side that night. Dutch multi-media artist Huib Van Der Werf hooked up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/\">Graffiti Research Lab<\/a> and created this WMD &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/?page_id=76\">weapon of mass defacement<\/a>. Simply put, you can project light on to a surface, in combination with a laptop, some kind of open source software, and a hand-held laser pointer, that creates the illusion of writing or drawing anything you want onto the side of a building. The photo above is the apparatus created for this project.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out how to do it by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/muonics.net\/blog\/index.php?postid=15\">this website<\/a>. 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