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Offline abell

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Wow!
« on: January 05, 2016, »
I saw this in a mall. It's a Santa photo spot but the walls were made out of a led like surface. I wish we could move to this eventually.

This would be nice to have as certain elements to the show. I wouldn't want it as the whole thing.


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Offline XmasLightGuy

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Re: Wow!
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2016, »
Quote from: abell
I saw this in a mall. It's a Santa photo spot but the walls were made out of a led like surface. I wish we could move to this eventually.
This would be nice to have as certain elements to the show. I wouldn't want it as the whole thing. 
I saw something like that in a mall too (actually looks like its the exact same unit).

I went and looked at it right up close, the walls are covered with are LED display panels. (looked to me like it was multiple smaller panels put together to make a large one for each wall)

Pretty cool stuff

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Re: Wow!
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2016, »
If it really is LED, are they producing a brown color?
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Re: Wow!
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2016, »
could it be back-lit material?  was it animated?
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Offline tbone321

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Re: Wow!
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2016, »
It was probably built from LCD panels.  They could be OLED panels but that is currently rather expensive. 
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Offline XmasLightGuy

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Re: Wow!
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2016, »
@Steve Gase:
It was indeed animated, every so often 'pictures' would change, sometimes looking like a log cabin, sometimes more like a Victorian cottage. (they didn't just swap out, the change would start at the bottom and 'build' up the walls..someone really put some effort into that thing!)

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Like  I say I looked at one right up close (like 6 inches away) because I needed to see what it was :) , definitely not LCD.. they were tiny RGB LEDs spaced around 1/4" apart (I had meant to take a closeup pic, but forgot)

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The brown was made with a combination of red/green/blue


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Offline chrisatpsu

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Re: Wow!
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2016, »
If it's producing brown, then it's using a special controller that's capable of adjusting HSL, as well as RGB.

To the best of my understanding typical RGB christmas lights stuff, cannot get a brown out of the RGB LEDS, since they only adjust for RGB levels.
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Offline tbone321

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Re: Wow!
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2016, »
As you said, RGB Christmas stuff can't produce brown because there is no black.  Without black, you cannot control HSL.  These panels must be composed of clear lensed LED's on a black background.  Our nodes are white or clear lensed LED's on a white or tan board and where there is no black, there is no brown.
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Offline XmasLightGuy

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Re: Wow!
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2016, »
Quote from: chrisatpsu
If it's producing brown, then it's using a special controller that's capable of adjusting HSL, as well as RGB.
I have a feeling that whatever they were using works more like a screen/display type setup, than just a controller & RGB LED matrix.

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These panels must be composed of clear lensed LED's on a black background. 
Yep they were just that. clear LEDs, black panel.

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