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The Fibrovisor

Ancient
56.5K subscribers
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1.9M views 2 months ago
Turning a dollar store fibre optic wand into a low resolution display. The odd layout at the driven end is to maximise the brightness and refresh rate. The whole display can be refreshed in just 4 row updates, which means it's capable of 90,000 frames per second (at an extremely low resolution, admittedly). I thought I could use this for a volumetric display, but it turned out to be more stiff and fragile than I'd hoped. Instead it's just a curiosity. The pixel mapping code is available here: https://gist.github.com/AncientJames/... Bonus footage here:    • Fibrovisor Test Footage   ...more
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The Fibrovisor
58KLikes
1,901,055Views
Feb 262025
Turning a dollar store fibre optic wand into a low resolution display. The odd layout at the driven end is to maximise the brightness and refresh rate. The whole display can be refreshed in just 4 row updates, which means it's capable of 90,000 frames per second (at an extremely low resolution, admittedly). I thought I could use this for a volumetric display, but it turned out to be more stiff and fragile than I'd hoped. Instead it's just a curiosity. The pixel mapping code is available here: https://gist.github.com/AncientJames/... Bonus footage here:    • Fibrovisor Test Footage  

Ancient

56.5K subscribers