Lithophane illumination
Lithophane illumination
My name is Frank and I'm a first time Forum user. I would like to pick some brains. The accompanying Pic will be a Christmas wreath of family Lithophanes. The LEDS that I chose have hot and cool illuminations. Can anybody advise me as to how to achieve uniform illumination across a 2.70" diameter lithophane? Should I be trying to use a translucent diffuser material? And what kind of LEDS would one choose? Also the final design will be the PIC plus additional wooden Christmas ball like surroundings. If this is not enough dimensional information { will add whatever is necessary. Thank you very much!!
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Re: Lithophane illumination
Can be very tough to achieve uniform illumination, especially if they are stand alone lithos without some type of enclosure.
Diffuser film can help but from my experience, cannot eliminate or even greatly reduce hot spots.
The best way I have found is to use the LED strip [rather than 1 bright bulb] around the edges, but once again, you would need to make backing enclosures to go this route.
Would not be too difficult, I would think you could even buy some thin metal [or PVC] rings of sorts [or cut your own out of a tube], glue them on the back and run the LED strip on the inside. Probably be best to enclose it with a backing, you would end up generally with a hollow hockey puck shape perhaps 1.5" thick at the most..
Some have used LED pads, not sure exactly what they are called but they offer uniform backlighting - Downsides is they are expensive and limited size options.
Diffuser film can help but from my experience, cannot eliminate or even greatly reduce hot spots.
The best way I have found is to use the LED strip [rather than 1 bright bulb] around the edges, but once again, you would need to make backing enclosures to go this route.
Would not be too difficult, I would think you could even buy some thin metal [or PVC] rings of sorts [or cut your own out of a tube], glue them on the back and run the LED strip on the inside. Probably be best to enclose it with a backing, you would end up generally with a hollow hockey puck shape perhaps 1.5" thick at the most..
Some have used LED pads, not sure exactly what they are called but they offer uniform backlighting - Downsides is they are expensive and limited size options.
Doug
Re: Lithophane illumination
Xray: Thank you for the response! Are you suggesting that the LEDS should be mounted perpendicularly, in a circle, to the LEDS in this enclosure? With or without diffusers?
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Re: Lithophane illumination
The LED strip would be run along the entire inside perimeter of circle, or at least however many will fit [the strips can be cut every 3 leds so it might be 6 or 9 ect].
Then you'd have to craft a power solution, which you'd have to do anyhow.
Then you'd have to craft a power solution, which you'd have to do anyhow.
Doug
Re: Lithophane illumination
Thanks for now! Good luck!!