Ultraviolet Laser Turns Humans Into Zombies [Lasers]

Apparently, firing a 405-nanometer ultraviolet laser beam for your face doesn’t kill you. It just turns you into a creepy zombie, using a system called Fade Out. This can be how it works.

Invented by Japanese artists Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, Fade Out creates images that glow at the hours of darkness using a 405-nanometer laser beam. First, their software analyzes the source image, turning it to grayscale and determining the intensity of each pixel. Then it fires the laser to different points inside the canvas-inside the case above, on a face-timing the firing so the pixels fade in synchronization. By the time the last pixel is fired, the ones fired in the beginning have already faded to the point within which they may be almost gone. The process creates the highlights and the shadows necessary to create the image.

You can see it more clearly in this other video:

According to the artists, the process might be used in entertainment. Because firing ultraviolet lasers at your face is a number of fun. [ WBS via Pink Tentacle ]

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