| Lighting a sculpture / Glow [message #61928] Wed, 13 February 2013 05:22 UTC |
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Does anyone have any experience with installing
miniature lights (LED) inside a 3d sculpture?
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #61932 is a reply to message #61928 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 06:29 UTC |
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What are your questions? It's not all that difficult if the geometry of the model allows it.
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #61954 is a reply to message #61932 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 14:52 UTC |
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Hi,
My sculpture is 12 inches in height and has a number of curves
to it (picture two figure 8's as a reference).
Ideally I'd like the 3d sculpture to glow, with the light
starting at one point and progressing along inside till
the entire piece is lite.
or
a simpler version would be that the glow starts off very dim
and slowly grows in intensity inside the entire piece.
I realize now that just putting in small LED lights is not the
look I'm going for because that won't give me the glow
look and be more of a spot light look.
If you have any thoughts on how to do this I would
greatly appreciate it.
thanks,
bob
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| Can a 3d sculpture Glow [message #61956 is a reply to message #61928 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 14:55 UTC |
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Hi,
I'm making a 3d sculpture that's 12 inches in height
and has a number of curves to it
(picture two figure 8's as a reference).
Ideally I'd like the 3d sculpture to glow, with the light
starting at one point and progressing along inside till
the entire piece is lite.
or
a simpler version would be that the glow starts off very dim
and slowly grows in intensity inside the entire piece.
I realize that just putting in small LED lights is not the
look I'm going for because that won't give me the glow
look and be more of a spot light look.
If anyone has any thoughts on how to do this I would
greatly appreciate it.
thanks,
bob
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| Re: Can a 3d sculpture Glow [message #61957 is a reply to message #61956 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 14:59 UTC |
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Paint it with glow in the dark paint? The glow of the paint won't charge itself, but it will charge faster/brighter closest to the light source. Just an idea.
The Mad Moder
michael@shapeways.com
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 Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #61962 is a reply to message #61961 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 15:47 UTC |
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Hi Mhagan,
Terrific!!! That's the ticket! Also appreciated the website that had the video of how they lite the pumpkin. Thanks!!!
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #61963 is a reply to message #61954 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 15:51 UTC |
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Can you make it hollow, and thread LED strips inside ? (I seem to remember that someone posted
images of a translucent nautilus shell in "full color sandstone" sometime last summer - ah yes,
here it is)
For lighting from below, i.e. putting the sculpture on a small stand with an LED inside (seen this for
sale with some more or less esoteric glass or plastic object on top) one of the acrylic materials
(detail/ultra detail) is probably your best bet.
EDIT: garbled url...
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| Re: Can a 3d sculpture Glow [message #61968 is a reply to message #61965 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 16:26 UTC |
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This is what I've been looking for, without knowing exactly what is was. Thank you so very much.
I give the Electroluminescent Wire a glowing review!!! Thanks again!
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #61977 is a reply to message #61969 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 18:16 UTC |
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That's an interesting thought, about making the whole sculpture
into a light. Having it made in Neon would probably be way to expensive.
Can Shapeways print in glass?
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #61979 is a reply to message #61963 ] Wed, 13 February 2013 18:43 UTC |
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So very helpful! Thanks for the link to the Nautilus Shell
and placing the sculpture on a lite base.
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #62019 is a reply to message #61977 ] Thu, 14 February 2013 11:58 UTC |
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They did print in glass but recently abandon that material cuz of lack of interest.
[Updated on: Thu, 14 February 2013 11:58 UTC]
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James
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture / Glow [message #62029 is a reply to message #61928 ] Thu, 14 February 2013 12:34 UTC |
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I have merged your two topics about the same subject.
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| Re: Lighting a sculpture [message #63327 is a reply to message #62019 ] Wed, 06 March 2013 03:31 UTC |
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Thats terrible news, I spent quite some time fixing the model so I can get it printed in glass....
Is it possible to do a custom material request for glass?
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