{"id":3534,"date":"2018-04-19T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2018-04-19T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:33:28","slug":"vector-graphics-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3534","title":{"rendered":"Vector graphics are back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the arcade game <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asteroids_(video_game)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asteroids<\/a> or the vector-based <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars arcade game<\/a>? How about the vector-graphics based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vectrex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vectrix<\/a>\u00a0game console?<\/p>\n<p>Say hello to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlasers.com\/laseros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LaserOS<\/a>. It that allows you build really cool, high quality vector graphics dreams &#8211; on real laser projectors. You can build visual laser shows, visualizations, control and create musical compositions, and play some great old games.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a developer that re-created Asteroids with a high-quality laser system (bonus points for talking about the difficulty of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Travelling_salesman_problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traveling salesman problem<\/a>):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FkHjG759ABY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one reviewer giving LaserOS a go on his laser projector:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nPzeglKFgMs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the arcade game Asteroids or the vector-based Star Wars arcade game? How about the vector-graphics based\u00a0Vectrix\u00a0game console? Say hello to LaserOS. It that allows you build really cool, high quality vector graphics dreams &#8211; on real laser projectors. You can build visual laser shows, visualizations, control and create musical compositions, and play some great old games. Here&#8217;s a developer that re-created Asteroids with a high-quality laser system (bonus points for talking about the difficulty of the traveling salesman problem):&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3534\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technicalprogramming","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-V0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}