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    Default Wave lumia tubes

    For sale , for the next two weeks, starting Jan 13th

    Wave Lumia tubes, 5$ each plus postage for a 2" 18 mm OD tube. You'll need to supply your own motor. No two will be alike, your choice of twist or poked. I can also fill one end with casting plastic if you need a way to make a mount that fits on a mother shaft. Larger or smaller diameters by special request.

    here is a really sped up example:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1U8YFFY57A, note it repeats, so you can move the beam up and down the tube and have reasonable repeatable but different lumia. Video is 250 mW 658

    Pm me if interested

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    I'm interested but would you be willing to take a picture of what the laser image will look like? I want to see how different it looks than a normal lumia wheel before I invest in it.

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    Hey Gents -

    Quote Originally Posted by carmangary View Post
    I'm interested but would you be willing to take a picture of what the laser image will look like? I want to see how different it looks than a normal lumia wheel before I invest in it.
    May I suggest a nice, albeit, WAAAY-not 'exhaustive', 'ref. library' of a few lumia / grating fx...

    http://www.laserium.com/gallery/

    Uh, 'Professor' (Steve) this might be a good 'chalkboard' for us to refer guys to, for specific lumia refs... ie: Gary, I am pretty-sure THIS was done with a 'torture tube' (the 'Sun') ...

    Anyhoo, hope this helps...
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    Quote Originally Posted by carmangary View Post
    I'm interested but would you be willing to take a picture of what the laser image will look like? I want to see how different it looks than a normal lumia wheel before I invest in it.
    You'd need a movie, its a motion effect, back and forth, back and forth in a line perpendicular to the tube axis.

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    Uh, 'Professor' (Steve) this might be a good 'chalkboard' for us to refer guys to, for specific lumia refs... ie: Gary, I am pretty-sure THIS was done with a 'torture tube' (the 'Sun') ...

    I dont know about that one. should be more of a line then a ring.

    Steve.

    heres a sped up one of mine:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1U8YFFY57A
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    Quote Originally Posted by carmangary View Post
    I'm interested but would you be willing to take a picture of what the laser image will look like? I want to see how different it looks than a normal lumia wheel before I invest in it.
    Invest? At five bucks I'd have one just to see what it looked like. Steve, I'll buy one if I can get that pair of optics coated. Chad at Meredith says it will be ok to send them to you if I buy, so the tube can cross the ocean with them.

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    Those images look a lot like the output of a Laserpod.

    I have one and they're quite relaxing to look at.

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    i'll take one of each! Just for fun! I have always liked mine twisted and poked
    Pat B

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    Been there, done that, got the t-shirt & selling it in a garage sale.

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    Interested!! you might get more hits if this were in the buy/sell trade section?

    Hmm larger and smaller diameters.. Would it work well to have concentric counter-rotating tubes, or would the light become too scattered and ruin the effect?

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    Its really a art tuning the glass with the torch for a given divergence. ITs easy to get big splatter, hard to get a small beam. I Imagine its possible to do counter rotating tubes, I had not thought of that. Greg Makhov at LSDI has something he calls a Zoomia, with a big lens, so I suspect if you add a lens to get the divergence down, two disks or two tubes would work just fine.

    Never tried it.

    Steve

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