I did a stained glass mosaic on an old window and hung it from a hammock chair stand. This was done for Flipside, the largest Texas burn. I had a removable back panel that I took off during the day for light to shine through. The glass was ungrouted, but I covered the back in diffusers for an office fluorescent light. The LEDs were in a 5 x 20 matrix of P9813 square pixels. It was a last minute projects, so it still needs some work. I’d like the pixels to be further away to help with diffusion. I also need to work on which patterns to use and the brightness settings. This ran all night though on a USB battery and was a good hippie catcher.
I think the programs that were running were Matrix Ray from @Andrew_Tuline 's examples and NoisePlusPalette from the main FastLED examples.
I sometimes add polyester fiberfill to assist with diffusion if the LED’s aren’t quite far enough away.
Great idea. I’ll give it a shot.
Oh wow, that is a cool idea.
I always thought addressable leds would be awesome with glass art.
Cool. It’s interesting how the color of the light changes the whole look and feel of the glass.
@Sam_Guyer It really does. I’m hoping to get it set up this weekend for more testing and I’ll post some more videos with some more subtle patterns. I had hoped to get that done at the burn, but it was a heat index of 107. I was in no mood for tinkering or lugging around my laptop.
One thing I’m doing for a sculpture artist acquaintance is to make a slow routine and to only use SK2812 WW (warm white) addressable LED’s. The warm lighting colour is consistent across all brightnesses and combined with just a hint of animation makes for a captivatiing piece of artwork.
@Andrew_Tuline I’d love to see it. Sounds great.
@Chris_Creel His collection is at http://www.fiftyshadesofglass.com/
although none with the animation, but you can see why he requires something that’s subtle.
@Andrew_Tuline Holy crap that is awesome. Yes I can see why subtlety is required. Quite a name too, ha.
Oh and by the way, I really love your stained glass windows.
Thanks @Andrew_Tuline . I plan to perfect the design and lighting on this one and then make a bunch more. The ultimate goal is to have an installation at Flipside next year where I have five or six of them. I’d like to have them arranged like they were in a house made of scaffolding with no walls. There would probably be a shade covering and seating area. You can get the windows for about $15 to $20 bucks and then use glass scraps. Overall, it’s a fairly inexpensive project and only took about 10 hours from start to finish.