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Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

leMel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:33:58 EDT

Needs 3D pong.

leMel

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

The Great Aussie Evil — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:55:23 EDT

I'd like that as a coffee table!

The Great Aussie Evil

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Subterfuge — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:24:51 EDT

Why not just stack 16 OLEDs far enough apart to make a cube shape, then only use the pixels spaced out 1/16th of the screen size away from each other to create the same effect.

Subterfuge

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

SigmundTheSeaMonster — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:54:10 EDT

Now RGB Leds are about $10/ea (4 leads needed for R, G, B and Ground). Surface-mount RGB LEDs are about $1.20 each (6 leads needed)

So if they used 4096 LEDs, that's only $40K just in LEDs (and maybe less for the bulk order). However, if they used surface mounted LEDs (RGB), it would be cheaper (but not as bright).

This site has some interesting LEDs and prices...

[www.ledtronics.com]

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

twilight-arc — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:31:49 EDT

Looks cool, though I would be interested to know how to build one myself.

twilight-arc

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Sockatume — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:58:56 EDT

"Very little will happen at first, and then a spark will pop into existence. It will hang for an instant, hovering in space, and then it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again... a detonation beyond all imagining, the big bang on a small scale."

Well, that's what I thought when I saw the neat little snow thing going on.

Sockatume

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

CPFReviews.com — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:54:00 EDT

Nice, but LED size is one of the issue, so is the connecting wires. the display seems to be impractical.

A True 3D Display should have 1mm x 1mm or LESS in size of LED, atleast 800 x 800 and wires connecting to LED's should be at most .01 mm.

I believe with todays technology, this should not be that far.

CPFReviews.com

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Frederik — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:33:46 EDT

I see dead pixels (anybody remember Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense?).

Frederik

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

FinalValgas — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:16:18 EDT

It's cool, but it's seizures too.

FinalValgas

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

DozeUser — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:15:37 EDT

@malaklaze: that would be because cubes don't have "nice" round edges

DozeUser

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

malaklaze — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:02:06 EDT

How come no one thought about nice round edges for that cube?

malaklaze

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

jamesuschrist — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:28:46 EDT

@Steve Hollasch: You wouldn't think they pay list price if they're using ungodly amounts of them.

jamesuschrist

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

technabob — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:55:17 EDT

@Jango: From what I could tell (my Chinese isn't very good), they're using multicolor LEDs, so it is just 16x16x16 (not x3).

technabob

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

QWERTYthon — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:54:47 EDT

I was excited about the 3D possibilities of this device. Then I watched the video. This needs some work...

QWERTYthon

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

technabob — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:53:44 EDT

@Wess:
The video shows the 16x16x16 (4096 LED) prototype. Seekway plans on building models up to 48x48x48 (a whopping 110,592 LEDS, not 11,000).

technabob

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

LittleJon — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:40:42 EDT

Give me... now!

LittleJon

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

way_down_east — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:23:33 EDT

Wow, you write as if you are sleep deprived. Get some rest. Mix in a spell check. Write a blog in the morning.

way_down_east

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

GiltProto — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:05:11 EDT

You'd really have something if there could be an extra transparency bit for unused LEDs. This might work better with thin fiber optics delivering the light to each 3D location to a little translucent or clear sphere. This an obviously good application for a MATLAB based controller.

GiltProto

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Steve Hollasch — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:58:31 EDT

The tricolor LED's mentioned above cost $1.35 a piece. I went and looked at an LED site, and that's about the same price as a triple of common red, blue and green LED's in big lot sizes.

Going with $1.35 per pixel, that's $1.35 * 48^3 = $150k for the LED's alone. Now throw in several miles of wiring, and you end up with a pretty expensive lava lamp.

Steve Hollasch

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

jamesuschrist — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:36:07 EDT

It looks like they're using something like this:

[www.elexp.com]

jamesuschrist

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Jango — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:20:46 EDT

Your math fails you. 16 * 16 * 16 * 3 = 12,288 individual diodes. Since each pixel contains red, green, and blue diodes.

Jango

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Step666 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:08:15 EDT

@Wess: he's talking about the proposed 48x48x48 version which Haroon has listed as 11,000 LEDs.

Step666

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

judacris — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:06:14 EDT

@itb: Yes. Its Logic is Undeniable.
Spooky.

judacris

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Wess — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:55:25 EDT

@stargatefan.0418: But the vid says 16x16x16 which is 4096. Im confused now.

Wess

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Amiash Loves You — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:46:51 EDT

LED cubes? Dean Koontz mentioned this at one of his novels...and it was a old book. (could dean koontz be the next messiah?)

Amiash Loves You

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

aaj111 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:15:54 EDT

I want.

aaj111

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Rususeruru — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:56:09 EDT

Keeping up with the Joneses just took a whole new dimension this holiday season.

Rususeruru

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Papsky — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:39:11 EDT

whoooa dude... totally rad!

Papsky

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

itb — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:39:05 EDT

Those remind me of V.I.K.I. from I, Robot.
You know, with the small boxes with the faces?

itb

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

gStar — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:29:36 EDT

This venture of which you speak has been achieved, en masse.

gStar

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

Jesustron — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:23:25 EDT

The combination of this and lsd/mushroom would be an exciting venture.

Jesustron

Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

stargatefan.0418 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:23:11 EDT

You might want to recheck that last math. It should be 111,000 diodes.

stargatefan.0418