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GENERAL => Challenges & Competitions => Topic started by: Shockwave on November 27, 2008

Title: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Shockwave on November 27, 2008
Here's a quickie from me to start off with :)

I will do something better I promise, this one is just to get me off the blocks :D

Thanks to rbz for ptc_ext, stormbringer for sc68 and jochen hippel for the song.

:)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: benny! on November 27, 2008
Nice starter. Music rocks of course. Good one, Shocky!
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Hezad on November 27, 2008
+1 :) Very cool ball ! and cool music too :D


 :clap:
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Shockwave on November 27, 2008
Hey thanks fellas! :)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: hellfire on November 27, 2008
Cool! The motion-blur and colour-scheme make it pretty authentic.
I think it's more LCD (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Color-LCD_Display_Macro-View.jpg) than LED, though.
How about adding some glow to the brighter lights?
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Shockwave on November 27, 2008
Hehe yeah I guess I could have made the graphics look more like LCDs :)

In my childhood I remember there being a shop on the way to the town center, it was just a converted house but it had a sign like this (without the dot ball), the sign had this text that used to blink off and on, the lights were orange. Only when you got up quite close to the window you'd notice that it was made out of little LED's.

Back then it was really unusual to see such a sign, it must have cost them a few quid.
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: ninogenio on November 27, 2008
i really like this!! :goodpost:

i think it might have looked better with a diffrent color system maybe a bit more viberant red and id like to have seen the led's slightly bigger and rounded, but its definitly cool for a first go!
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: va!n on November 27, 2008
very nice! :)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: AnimalMother on November 28, 2008
Looks really nice. I like the babypoo colours  ;)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Shockwave on November 28, 2008
Looks really nice. I like the babypoo colours  ;)

A future cometition theme maybe? :)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Xalthorn on November 28, 2008
That's really cool, I love it.

However, the black dots in the sphere (normal of 0?) spoil it for me.  Perhaps either ignore those points or after you've done the normal calculation for brightness, add a static value to bring the 0 values to the value of the 'inactive' LEDs?

Just my two penneth
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Shockwave on November 28, 2008
Fair point about the black dots, It's just a warm up though. The real one is coming ;)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on November 30, 2008
Looks solid. Great job.  :clap:
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: bikerboy on November 30, 2008
wow great job man really nice :goodpost:

may i suggest a colorchange in the ball a really smooth one, those days leds come in many colors so there are a lot of color variations to choose from.
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on November 30, 2008
"You may use any combination of colours for your leds but each led must be a single colour only. for example a red led is red and not any other colour."

1 hue per light looks like. ;)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: bikerboy on November 30, 2008
yeah you're right didn't notice that one :)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Shockwave on December 01, 2008
The next thing is looking a bit better...
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: bikerboy on December 01, 2008
can't wait to see it :clap: looks really nice :goodpost:
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Hezad on December 01, 2008
Looks really cool shockie ! :D
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: benny! on December 01, 2008
Thats look indeed very techy and old-schoolish. Really
looking forward to see it in motion!
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Shockwave on December 01, 2008
It looks kind of different now. Pointless me showing it yet as it still has a way to go, but needless to say that it is in 3D and in opengl. :)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Optimus on December 04, 2008
I really like this one!
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Hotshot on December 06, 2008
that good one  :)
Title: Re: [LED] Diodeball
Post by: Praecor on December 23, 2008
Nice shocky!