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led cube displays 3d images in color

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posted: April 6th, 2008 7 comments author: technabob

A while back, I reported on James Clar’s cool 3D cubes which could display images using a grid of about 1000 LEDs connected to a computerized controller. While Clar’s cubes are simply amazing, they can only display monochrome images. Now, a company in China has taken the same concept and created a multi-color version.

3D LED Cube LED Display by Seekway

Created by Chinese display manufacturer Seekway, this prototype 3D LED display cube was created using a 16×16x16 grid of interconnected color LEDs (that’s a whopping 4096 individual diodes).

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The system is capable of displaying animations at up to 30 frames per second and each dot can be individually addressed for both color and intensity.

Now that the prototype is complete, Seekway is gearing up to produce versions with grids as large as 48×48x48, which will require more than 110,000 LEDs. Wow.

7 comments comment

1. manchicken | April 7th, 2008 at 9:39 am

So where do you go to buy the home edition?
2. technabob | April 7th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Yeah, I’d love one for my living room, but only the 110k LED version.
3. Pauluis | April 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

I’d like to modelize the 3D activity in a neural network, and to address questions as
- hypothethical cellular switch between excitatory to inhibitory effect
- distribution of inhibitory cells vs excitatory ones
- migraine activity
4. Pauluis | April 17th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

Each LED would be a cell, red would be excitatory, green inhibitory.
Connection grid would be proximity by modelized synapses.
Modelization would also address the membrane time constant, as I did in 2D (pauluisQ.,BakerS.,OlivierE.1999)
5. technabob | April 17th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

Hmm. I don’t think you can do any of that with this cube.
6. Velkro Smaak | May 21st, 2008 at 11:52 am

It does say that “each dot can be individually addressed for both color and intensity” so in theory, you cCAN do that with this sort of cube.
7. javad | May 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 am

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