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Would it be possible to make it look like the light was coming in at an angle from above and the side like real sunlight?
by woah 2y ago
Would it be possible to make it look like the light was coming in at an angle from above and the side like real sunlight?
- fouronnes3 2y agoI've given some thought to this, I agree it's one of the obvious improvements. I think with a refractive design like this one it's difficult, because of the way a lens works. Most other projects like this including commercial ones like CoeLux use a reflective design, and I believe that's partly for this reason.
- hinkley 2y agoI’ve seen the video he links at the top of the article, a few years back. They took an old satellite dish, silvered the surface, and put a giant LED where the receiver had been so the light produced was nearly parallel. Otherwise the shadows look wrong. In his case he sacrificed a doorway or a closet to make a window with “real light”
- j_bum 2y agoI was thinking of the same video! Link: https://youtu.be/6bqBsHSwPgw?si=nV7nGdRhGvkivc1p https://youtu.be/6bqBsHSwPgw?si=nV7nGdRhGvkivc1p
- ericmcer 2y agoThere was a project posted here awhile ago with something similar, but the light was larger and he positioned it outside a fake window with a curtain across it.
- goda90 2y agoWould moving the box itself help provide that effect? Maybe put it on a track to move throughout the day?