nutz4lights
Full time elf
Hey all,
I have been posting some of my builds going on this year of late... gearing up to finish with the wiring for the year and start with the programming / sequencing (I guess I am an oddball in that I don't like to sequence anything until I know what I will have built). The last couple of posts have focused on the couple of different mini tree types that I converted to RGB this year. This post is focused around a dozen wreaths that I picked up at 90% off at Walmart the one year after Christmas and stuck in my attic until now... I decided to wrap them each with 50 of the bullet style WS2811 pixels (black wiring) and am happy with the test results. Each wreath is around 75cm (30") in diameter.
https://vimeo.com/105617092
I am using LSP to sequence them and have done a couple of things so far... the first is just drawing a vertical line for each of the wreaths and spreading that out horizontally across my display. That allows for some decent sweeps back and forth. The second idea I came up with (and this required me to wrap each of the wreaths in the same direction) was to create a left and right half of the tree (represented by vertical lines to the left and right of the center vertical line representing the entire wreath). The "left and right half" lines are for pixels 26-50 and 1-25, respectively (the wreaths are wrapped clock-wise from top-dead-center, so the first 25 pixels are the right half of the wreath). I created separate "elements / controllers" in LSP for the (1) full wreath, (2) right half, and (3) left half of the wreath... and repeated that 12 times. As you will see in the sequence above, that allowed me to do a pretty cool sweep wherein i have the left half of the wreath sweep to the right as red and the right half of the wreath sweep to the left as green... I am still trying to come up with other cool things to do with these... I don't think I want to go as far as "quartering" the wreath... the next thing I want to try and figure out how to do is to have all 12 wreaths "fill" in a clock-wise (or counter-clock-wise) fashion... basically, each wreath will have to turn on pixels 1-50 in order. Any suggestions on cool effects would be appreciated!
Thanks for looking.
-Louie in Melbourne
I have been posting some of my builds going on this year of late... gearing up to finish with the wiring for the year and start with the programming / sequencing (I guess I am an oddball in that I don't like to sequence anything until I know what I will have built). The last couple of posts have focused on the couple of different mini tree types that I converted to RGB this year. This post is focused around a dozen wreaths that I picked up at 90% off at Walmart the one year after Christmas and stuck in my attic until now... I decided to wrap them each with 50 of the bullet style WS2811 pixels (black wiring) and am happy with the test results. Each wreath is around 75cm (30") in diameter.
https://vimeo.com/105617092
I am using LSP to sequence them and have done a couple of things so far... the first is just drawing a vertical line for each of the wreaths and spreading that out horizontally across my display. That allows for some decent sweeps back and forth. The second idea I came up with (and this required me to wrap each of the wreaths in the same direction) was to create a left and right half of the tree (represented by vertical lines to the left and right of the center vertical line representing the entire wreath). The "left and right half" lines are for pixels 26-50 and 1-25, respectively (the wreaths are wrapped clock-wise from top-dead-center, so the first 25 pixels are the right half of the wreath). I created separate "elements / controllers" in LSP for the (1) full wreath, (2) right half, and (3) left half of the wreath... and repeated that 12 times. As you will see in the sequence above, that allowed me to do a pretty cool sweep wherein i have the left half of the wreath sweep to the right as red and the right half of the wreath sweep to the left as green... I am still trying to come up with other cool things to do with these... I don't think I want to go as far as "quartering" the wreath... the next thing I want to try and figure out how to do is to have all 12 wreaths "fill" in a clock-wise (or counter-clock-wise) fashion... basically, each wreath will have to turn on pixels 1-50 in order. Any suggestions on cool effects would be appreciated!
Thanks for looking.
-Louie in Melbourne
