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--- examples:zone-files [2026/02/23 22:25] – [Live Control Zone Files] Lyra Letournea
+++ examples:zone-files [2026/02/24 19:20] (current) – Bob Varkevisser
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 ==== Live Control Zone Files ====
-[[https://download.pangolin.com/beyond-files/32-Laser-Busking-Template.bzones]]
+[[https://download.pangolin.com/beyond-files/32-Laser-Busking-Template.bzones|32-Laser-Busking-Template.bzones]]
 This zone file is designed to be a very good template zone file for live shows. Broken down into 4 groups of 8 lasers, it can serve many setups very well.
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 ==== Graphic Zone Files ====
+One thing people may want to do is use multiple lasers to create one large zone of output sometimes known as a "canvas". This zone file uses 8 lasers together to create a large format display for a sports stadium.
+https://download.pangolin.com/beyond-files/Canvas-Zone-Example-File.bzones
+Canvasing is a great way to blend multiple lasers to solve different problems.
+You can stack lasers for brightness, just straight up layering them on top of each other
+You can stitch to make a larger projection then your scan angle can do, which is also to with resize
+And you can Distribute, where two lasers are stacked on top of each other, but drawing different parts of the same image to reduce flicker.
+Canvasing is doing any of them or all of them together to create a large format display.
+{{:examples:canvas_zone_example_file_picture.png?600|}}
+Each individual laser gets its own zone, meshed to reference points on the field, with a reliable overlap over each zone. This allows us to have an overlap for our seam. Using Auto Mesh, we can mesh our zones on top of each other with clean overlaps without too much fiddling.
+{{:examples:canvas_zone_mesh.png?600|}}
+Once all zones are layered it will look like this
+{{:examples:canvas_zone_all_zones.png?300|}}
+After all our zones are meshed properly, and overlaps set in the also to settings in our Master Canvas zone you will get an output from your master canvas that looks like the below picture.
+{{:examples:canvas_zone_canvas.png?300|}}
+Finally we can smooth out the edges with effects on each of the component zones over their overlaps.
+{{:examples:canvas_zone_faded_edges.png?600|}}