StippleGen LED - Universal Monsters

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.











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Well executed.

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

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Nice! Are you putting them in your windows?

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Awesome! :grinning:

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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.

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

Hey Google, bring forth Frankenstein’s monster!

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Here are the files…

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William Henry Pratt. :wink:

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He is in the last one too.

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

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

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You mean Boris Karloff?

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I think timjedwards called it right:

Jules called the actor’s real name:

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

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Very intense!

@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.

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:

Pulled from these searches:

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

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

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

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Magical!

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