Not LED’s but, next year, it could be! This was my wife’s idea for a non traditional christmas tree. At the moment it’s two strands of white incandescent (ewwww, I know) christmas lights secured to the wall at each corner point.
I thinking about making this with LED’s and the shape of the traditional christmas lights really has pleasantly bushy organic quality that I would over conventional strips.
Do they make addressable strips in christmas lights like packaging? I don’t any reason why not.
I still love incandescent bulbs. Even if you simulate this color on LEDs, if you move your eyes quickly you still see them break into RGB. That’s a great tree!
@Mark_Ortiz : If you grab the very latest FastLED v3.1 branch, you’ll get a new color definition: CRGB::FairyLight, which is a rough color approximation of incandescent fairy lights. If you’re not using FastLED color correction, you might prefer CRGB::FairyLightNCC. None of these are perfect, for a lot of reasons, but it’s convenient to be able to code for an approximation of ‘that color’ quickly and easily.
Hi @Mark_Kriegsman - yes those colour corrections are great, and I do use them. What I mean is that they still could never be like real incandescents due to the flickery nature of LEDs. I love those old lights. Did you ever catch the Frankenstein production with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller? A main feature of the set was hundreds of huge incandescent lights. It was beautiful Here’s a rubbish picture:
Here’s a rubbish picture: