Pretty Lights

Posted Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:27 PM

I like LEDs for their simpleness. They don't look very exciting when you see those so-called animations while waiting for the subway train, but given the right touch, they are the most beautiful things. For example...

The Bloomberg installation is probably the closests to what I would like my project to be like. Of course, it's gigantic and uses who knows how many LEDs and infrared sensors so it's definetely out of my budget range.

I like how HeHe handled it by spacing apart the LEDs and covering each of them with a paper cup to diffuse the light.

I'm leaning towards the same idea of spacing the LEDs further apart and covering each with something translucent (to reinforce the "pixel" idea). I think the effect would look great with clear, non-coloured 8mm LEDs (instead of the typically sized 5mm) within a clear (not translucent) plexiglass encasement.