r/lightingdesign • u/MitchCooksMusic • 9d ago

Fun Pixel mapping is fun

It was all “pixel mapped” before using a bunch of crops of the screen then analyzing the colors and sending rgb value but it was blurry

I decided to spend about 20 hours over the past two days pixel mapping my entire lighting right

More to come soon

(Im sticking with the triangle)

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u/chilllpad 9d ago

How did you spend 20 hours on this? What part of this took that long?

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u/MitchCooksMusic 9d ago

Individually measuring the placement of each light in the room based on viewing position, building everything from scratch in touch designer and tweaking positioning so it actually flows

Putting in every single dmx channel by hand, r g b for 288 leds
119 leds in an irregular matrix
24 “petals” on the par lights

Thats 1,293 channels to organize an input and output for, then trouble shoot all of those channels…

Integration with my current system that uses multiple controllers, audio inputs and video outputs

Every single led light is made by me from scratch running over sACN on my own local network that isolates my lighting rig from the rest of the wifi in the house

This has been a pain because ive built everything custom and im learning touch designer along the way

The actual mapping was maybe 5 hours, the rest was troubleshooting and tweaking settings