Step4WhatisaLEDcube(LED光立方是神马东西).docVIP

Step 4What is a LED cube（LED光立方是神马东西） A LED cube is like a LED screen, but it is special in that it has a third dimension, making it 3D. Think of it as many transparent low resolution displays. In normal displays it is normal to try to stack the pixels as close as possible in order to make it look better, but in a cube one must be able to see trough it, and more spacing between the pixels actually its voxels since it is in 3d is needed. The spacing is a trade-off between how easy the layers behind it is seen, and voxel fidelity. 一个LED立方就像一个LED屏幕，但它的特殊之处就在于它还有一个第三维使之具有立体感。将它想象成是很多透明的低分辨率的显示器。对于正常的显示器，自然而然我们都尽可能的将像素点安排的近一些以便于使其显示效果更好，但是对于一个立方，我们必须能够“看透”它，所以像素（因为这是三维的，实际上应该称之为体元素）之间留点间隙是必需的。Since it is a lot more work making a LED cube than a LED display, they are usually low resolution. A LED display of 8x8 pixels is only 64 LEDs, but a LED cube in 8x8x8 is 512 LEDs, an order of magnitude harder to make! This is the reason LED cubes are only made in low resolution.即便LED光立方是低分辨率的，做一个LED光立方也比做一个LED显示屏需要更多的工作。一个8x8的LED显示屏只要64个LED，而一个8x8x8的LED光立方需要512个LED，这可要难上一倍。这也就是为什么LED光立方的分辨率做的这么低的缘故。A LED cube does not have to be symetrical, it is possible to make a 7x8x9, or even oddly shaped ones. 一个LED光立方不一定要做成对称的，可以做成7x8x9，或者奇形怪状的都可以。 Step 5How does a LED cube work This LED cube has 512 LEDs. Obviously, having a dedicated IO port for each LED would be very impractical. You would need a micro controller with 512 IO ports, and run 512 wires through the cube.该LED光立方有512个LED，很显然，为每一个LED分配一个IO是不现实的，这样你将需要一个具有512个IO口的单片机，然后在光立方中连接512条线。Instead, LED cubes rely on an optical phenomenon called persistence of vision POV .相反，LED光立方依靠一种称之为视觉暂留的视觉效果。If you flash a led really fast, the image will stay on your retina for a little while after the led turns off.如果你让一个LED快速闪烁，当LED灭掉的时候，图像将停留在你的视网膜里一小会儿。By flashing each layer of the cube one after another really really fast, it gives the illusion of a 3d image, when int fact you are looking at a series of 2d images stacked ontop oneano