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freecartoonporn · 07-30-2012, 11:54 PM

When i was a kid , i went to exhibition of some kind, there on desk , there was this electrical thing with wire attached to it,

it had few leds on a single arm, then the guys started it and the arm started to revolve in the globe/circular motion and the leds made few words floating. looked very awesome.

anybody ? know what that thing is called ?

thanks

2MuchMark · 07-31-2012, 12:01 AM

I forget what its called, but I know what you mean. It's based on the old persistence of vision illusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision). It is 1, 2 or 3 rows of light that display words or images that are only visible when they are moving or spinning.

A company tried to turn this into rims for cars a few years ago.

Talk about tacky...

The illusion is called something like

KRosh · 07-31-2012, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by freecartoonporn

When i was a kid , i went to exhibition of some kind, there on desk , there was this electrical thing with wire attached to it,

it had few leds on a single arm, then the guys started it and the arm started to revolve in the globe/circular motion and the leds made few words floating. looked very awesome.

anybody ? know what that thing is called ?

thanks

Programmable LED message display?

freecartoonporn · 07-31-2012, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by **********

I forget what its called, but I know what you mean. It's based on the old persistence of vision illusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision). It is 1, 2 or 3 rows of light that display words or images that are only visible when they are moving or spinning.

A company tried to turn this into rims for cars a few years ago.

Talk about tacky...

The illusion is called something like

thanks man.

Quote:

Originally Posted by KRosh

Programmable LED message display?

thanks.

this is it.,

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