StippleGen LED - Universal Monsters

[bwente]

I created some more Stipple Portraits to get in the spirit of Halloween. They are more vivid in person. They are svg files cut on 5x7 chipboard.

[evansd2]

Well executed.

Got a pic of the internals? (if you care to share)

[timjedwards]

Nice! Are you putting them in your windows?

[Jules]

Awesome!

[bwente]

Here is what looks like with the lights on. It is ridiculously simple. I just put a LED light strip in a box.

At the bottom I made a “light maze” so that light won’t leak out the bottom. It has enough space to fit a ESP8266 so I can control it with IFTTT.

[jfruhling]

Prize to the first person that can tell the name the first portrait…

[timjedwards]

so I can control it with IFTTT

Hey Google, bring forth Frankenstein’s monster!

[bwente]

Here are the files…

Light Box Gobo Holder Frame

Here are the files for the “light thing” I made. [lightbox_gobo_cutfile-01] [lightbox_gobo_cutfile-02] Construction photos. [IMG_2806] [IMG_2807] [IMG_2805] [IMG_2808] [IMG_2816]

[Jules]

William Henry Pratt.

[bwente]

He is in the last one too.

[cynd11]

Wow, amazing! They really convey the mood. I think my favorite is the Count Dracula one—the mood lighting is very subtle.

[n_dawson]

W O W ! ! Very cool technique. (I’ve seen stippling before, but never with cut outs of every dot!)

[evansd2]

Prize to the first person that can tell the name the first portrait…

You mean Boris Karloff?

[AhnoldZ]

I think timjedwards called it right:

Hey Google, bring forth Frankenstein’s monster!

Jules called the actor’s real name:

William Henry Pratt.

[evansd2]

Ah I didn’t realize Boris Karloff was a stage name. Interesting.

[ptodd]

Very intense!

[scott_trahey]

@bwente thanks for sharing your your project. I love them. would you mind discussing your workflow on creating the “light brite” effect from a photo? I’m not that experienced in that area so would greatly appreciate it.

[evansd2]

would you mind discussing your workflow on creating the “light brite” effect from a photo?

If you search the forum for “stipple” or “halftone”, you’ll find a bunch of resources about how this sort of thing is done.

Here are a couple of the results:

Halftones in inkscape

Short version: There’s a way to make halftone images in Inkscape. [image][image] Long version: I remembered this technique from a few years ago when I was playing with a pen plotter (No, not a polargraph, but I still kind of want one). Basically, you use Inkscape’s tiled clones feature to get the result you want. This allows for crazy control, but one warning: Be careful of how many nodes you have in your “dot”. It scales up incredibly quickly, and pretty soon you’ll have a beast of an SV…

Anyone know how to create the pictured halftone-like effect?

The other day I saw a fence that used holes of various sizes to render an image. It was a neat effect. Any ideas on how to turn a normal bitmap image into a bazillion vector cuts? [image]

Converting to halftone with stipplegen

Was looking at some of the big oversized halftone dot prints done with CNC routers and was wondering about how that would look on the GF. Ran a picture through a program called stipplegen and did a 7x7 test print. At this scale, the larger dots are about 2mm. [image] Now I’m wondering how this would look at 4-5 times this size.

Pulled from these searches:

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=halftone

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=stipple

[bwente]

" The Man of a Thousand Faces"
I had time tonight to add another one…

[timjedwards]

Magical!