Essentially these are just the RGB sections that will be used in the mega-tree wired up as a 3m (9foot) wide Icicle string. Nothing fancy RGB Icicle string Cheers Phil
That was using the 5050 leds, as shown in the video 75mm spacing horizontally and 160mm vertically, it's a neutral light colour wall behind the leds so there is some light reflected from the wall. I suspect it would look really good with some sort of opaque material in front of it to diffuse the light. There are no covers on those leds yet Cheers phil
Phil good work with the curtain, looks awesome for just something you quickly slapped together. My CCR matrix uses the same RGB SMD 5050 LEDs. The light has been diffused by putting the lights in between two sheets of corex. The back sheet helps reflect back the light and the top sheet helps diffuse the light, ends up looking very good.
Someone had to ask.... The Led's are being driven from Vixen, the sequence is one i have been using to stress test the firmware code on the controllers, with 25mS timing and nearly all ramps up and down, there are some 25mS long white all on flashes that i did not include in the video sequence that really test processing of the DMX stream, they make good strobes. As i had the sequence it was easy just to use it. Working on a LSP sequence. Cheers Phil
It would be interested in knowing the time differences between the time to develop a LSP sequence and a Vixen sequence for the curtain (I already know but others would be curious) But a great effect you have with the curtains, it will have a lot of people rethinking now.
So how long for Vixen and LightShowPro Vixen: I have two years experience with this including a lot of RGB work from last year, the sequence as shown was built up over a period of weeks as we tested firmware, if i started from scratch heres a rough estimate. Based on a single 120ch controller, no music involved One minute Sequence Vixen Configure the track orders in Vixen to easily work with the RGB channels: 30-40 minutes, this includes multiple sort orders. actual programing time: about 40 minutes, this is with considerable experience in doing RGB work in Vixen. So between 70-80 minutes from a clean sheet. Two minute animation sequence LightShowPro Add new RGB controller and configure after clean install: a couple of minutes create sequence including incremental testing of effects as i went: 60 - 90 minutes maybe a bit longer. This is with little experience in LSP. Actual time would drop FAST with some time under the belt, i would expect to be able to do the same thing with some experience under 15-20 minutes, maybe even quicker. Now Vixen becomes nearly expontentially harder above 400-500 channels whereas LSP in the RGB world immediately cuts the total to a third. Cheers Phil
Sounds about right Phil, the great thing is that there is still many months away from show time for all of us to start to harness the power of LSP 1.7. I know for me I'm getting better and faster at controlling LSP 1.7 every time i play with it. For me the time taken to setup a matrix from scratch to seeing a transition actually on the matrix only takes me 5 minutes (that's including setting up controllers and the matrix in the visualizer). I couldn't even compare that to LOR or Vixen in terms of time difference because LOR and Vixen would be just damn to hard to sequence approx 192 RGB channels (576 Channels) in a matrix.
