Ian Johnson
11-28-2016, 5:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tno6aV8byLo
This person is mimicing a nixie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube) tube by edge lighting individual sheets in a stack. Each sheet is etched with a numeral in the style of the stacked number-shaped cathodes in a nixie tube. I was thinking a cool next step would be to scale it down, put it upside down into a glass jar, and fill with a clear epoxy that has the same index of refraction as the acrylic. Would that succeed in making the individual sheets and their edges disappear? I was thinking that it might allow the light of one sheet to spread to another more easily, but that could be mitigated by shining the LEDs through deeper channels to restrict their angle of view.
This person is mimicing a nixie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube) tube by edge lighting individual sheets in a stack. Each sheet is etched with a numeral in the style of the stacked number-shaped cathodes in a nixie tube. I was thinking a cool next step would be to scale it down, put it upside down into a glass jar, and fill with a clear epoxy that has the same index of refraction as the acrylic. Would that succeed in making the individual sheets and their edges disappear? I was thinking that it might allow the light of one sheet to spread to another more easily, but that could be mitigated by shining the LEDs through deeper channels to restrict their angle of view.