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My New Hobby - Animated Christmas Lights
orion:
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--- Quote from: saint on December 18, 2008, 03:28:35 pm ---Is there such a thing as a gobo that will do animated scenes? I guess that would make it a projector.... I have a gobo (one of those relatively inexpensive ones they sell with pre-cut holiday scenes you can use), I also have one of those animated snow flake things but it's fairly lame. I saw one once on the side of a building in downtown Atlanta, with huge snowflakes gently falling against a green lit background, snowflakes were very sharp. I want to do something similar at home.
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you can get what you call an animated gobo, a wheel with loadsa snowflakes on it and as the wheel turned different parts of the image on the wheel would pass by the light and project that part of it, making it look like moving flakes, then add a different wash light just for the green. what your talking wouldnt be that expensive to hire for a season.
one k4, a gobo ,a single channel dimmer for each light , couple a codas for the wash. ill find some pics :D
orion i wasnt trying to be rude, more of a joke to you as you seem to be aware of the kit you're talking about, i was just trying to say 'no not a martin for christ's sake', for a joke, cos martins piss me off.
and ego would be me saying i'm one of the best, that i have worked with the best is just ,well, true . i'm not trying to gain anything by it, it was just meant to be a complement to markrvp
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By no means did I think you were being rude! It's kind of cool that you have a background in lighting... not many people do. Yes Martins can be a real PITA when they want (I really enjoy it when you spend hours programming a few scenes, turn them off for the day and when you fire them up again they are pointing nowhere near where they are supposed to... fun times) Please don't think I was implying that you have an ego... it was just a joke about LD's in particular. I do agree that markrvp has done a great job! At first glance I realized how expensive it had to have been for him... he must really enjoy it! He has taken Christmas lighting to a whole new level and is obviously very good at it. I would predict that he is going to try to keep pushing the envelope year after year, and the next logical thing for him to start playing around with is some more theatrical style lighting. Oh and by the way, the low power FM transmitter is a nice touch!
polaris:
aha seems a fair bit of misunderstanding from me then, how could i miss a joke about LD's and egos :laugh2: :cheers:
orion:
--- Quote from: polaris on December 18, 2008, 04:18:02 pm ---aha seems a fair bit of misunderstanding from me then, how could i miss a joke about LD's and egos :laugh2: :cheers:
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Yea I was wondering about that! :)
patrickl:
Wow that is quite cool!
On the other hand, I think I'm quite happy my neighbours don't have this hobby though :P
Is this hobby becoming more widespread in the US? I've seen several examples of people doing there house like that after that first house a few years ago.
markrvp:
--- Quote from: patrickl on December 18, 2008, 04:47:20 pm ---Wow that is quite cool!
On the other hand, I think I'm quite happy my neighbours don't have this hobby though :P
Is this hobby becoming more widespread in the US? I've seen several examples of people doing there house like that after that first house a few years ago.
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Yeah, it's a growing hobby. Not growing rapidly, but growing nonetheless.
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