alessandra
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Hi! I initially started thinking about this topic in a thread over at the FX-Sabers forum, I just was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how to do this, or if it is even physically possible. It's just that lightsabers in the movies have a much lighter core and it's the edges that are colored. Your standard LED lightsaber will look that way in photos and videos because the center of the blade will overload the camera sensor, but the blade looks much flatter (single colored) in person. I really am interested in maybe capturing the sense of heat and radiating energy that having a white core would give to a green (or any color) blade!
My initial idea was to combine a LedEngin or Luxeon LED with a strip of LEDs in a pair of nested thin polycarb tubes like so:
The main problem here being that the light would still just combine to form a light green blade, with maybe a small bit of a white center. That's not even considering power and heat issues.
Anyhow, I just thought I'd cross-pollinate and see if anyone over here had any ideas on how this might be accomplished.
My initial idea was to combine a LedEngin or Luxeon LED with a strip of LEDs in a pair of nested thin polycarb tubes like so:
![WhiteCoreBlade.jpg](http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g410/urmnothanks/WhiteCoreBlade.jpg)
The main problem here being that the light would still just combine to form a light green blade, with maybe a small bit of a white center. That's not even considering power and heat issues.
Anyhow, I just thought I'd cross-pollinate and see if anyone over here had any ideas on how this might be accomplished.