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Over the past few months I have been using aqua glow powder with a few 445nm lasers to produce various "halo" and other glow effects.
I don't start threads very often but I figured I would change it up a little and post some pictures.
The picture quality isn't great because I'm just using a phone camera in these photos, but the pictures still demonstrate the effects.
One of the first things I did with the powder was to coat the inside of lenses.
This allows a very large amount of light to contact the powder fully charging it almost instantly.
When the laser is then turned off the inside of the laser has a glow that lasts for hours.
Pure Aqua Glow Powder now available for purchase in small, cheap quantities! Click Here!
I've recently created a more complex effect with some of my finer lasers by using the same material in combination with one of my custom machined focus adapters. (I have all machining done by the experienced hands of FlayminPyro.)
If you want more information on these particular lasers I will be posting a thread on them soon. I will have several of them for sale and they are unique in more ways than can be shown in photos (details will be included in the coming sales thread).
When I do post the sales thread, I will post a link to it in this thread.
While experimenting I also stumbled upon an interesting effect.
I was able to produce a different colored ring around the dot of the laser.
This colored ring is mostly just visible through safety glasses as the ring is much dimmer than the laser.
So the below pictures were taken through blue-blocking glasses.
Another effect I had been looking forward to trying to produce is a "Red Hot" effect.
I'm actually very pleased with the way this turned out. I knew the effect couldn't last too long or the laser wouldn't look like it was cooling down.
The below video demonstrates this "Red Hot" effect. The red glow is more noticeable than what the camera shows.
Here I used the same mixture as in my lasers in place of normal white sights. It looks great in low light conditions and almost the same as it did before in daylight (white).
That's all for now. Please feel free to post any questions or comments.
If anyone else has any other projects they've done with glow powders also feel free to post them here.
I don't start threads very often but I figured I would change it up a little and post some pictures.
The picture quality isn't great because I'm just using a phone camera in these photos, but the pictures still demonstrate the effects.
One of the first things I did with the powder was to coat the inside of lenses.
This allows a very large amount of light to contact the powder fully charging it almost instantly.
When the laser is then turned off the inside of the laser has a glow that lasts for hours.
Pure Aqua Glow Powder now available for purchase in small, cheap quantities! Click Here!
I've recently created a more complex effect with some of my finer lasers by using the same material in combination with one of my custom machined focus adapters. (I have all machining done by the experienced hands of FlayminPyro.)
If you want more information on these particular lasers I will be posting a thread on them soon. I will have several of them for sale and they are unique in more ways than can be shown in photos (details will be included in the coming sales thread).
When I do post the sales thread, I will post a link to it in this thread.
While experimenting I also stumbled upon an interesting effect.
I was able to produce a different colored ring around the dot of the laser.
This colored ring is mostly just visible through safety glasses as the ring is much dimmer than the laser.
So the below pictures were taken through blue-blocking glasses.
Another effect I had been looking forward to trying to produce is a "Red Hot" effect.
I'm actually very pleased with the way this turned out. I knew the effect couldn't last too long or the laser wouldn't look like it was cooling down.
The below video demonstrates this "Red Hot" effect. The red glow is more noticeable than what the camera shows.
Here I used the same mixture as in my lasers in place of normal white sights. It looks great in low light conditions and almost the same as it did before in daylight (white).
That's all for now. Please feel free to post any questions or comments.
If anyone else has any other projects they've done with glow powders also feel free to post them here.
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