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Vakaiseryesterday at 7:22 PM3 repliesview on HN

While this is interesting, what I really wanted to see was more 'graffiti' and less 'laser'.

Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property as a form of artistic self expression. To that end, why not combine this with a laser engraver instead of a laser pointer?

Imagine hooking this up and then literally carving your graffiti into the side of a brick building. Or burning it into the paint on a metal container car.

Obviously such a thing has the potential for serious bodily harm and could start building or wild fires inadvertently, to say nothing of the energy consumption requirements such a laser engraver would necessitate.

Counterpoint: rule of cool.


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grufkorkyesterday at 7:29 PM

You’ll probably burn your retinas with the backscatter

trashcan_manyesterday at 11:50 PM

"Can you tell the jury what you told investigators when you decided to use computerized directed energy weapons to target civllian infrastructure?"

"...rule of cool?"

brianpanyesterday at 9:27 PM

Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.

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