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HAL 9000
I am Planning to build a HAL 9000 Panel for the outside of my room, but I am having a problem with the lense. I was wondering if anyone knows how they diffused the light so well, without blurring the lense. (In case you didn't know I am talking about the Movie Space Odyssey)
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12 years ago
the lens is just a piece of glass underneither it is probably a sort of acrylic, and under that is either an led or a lamp.
Reply 9 years ago
I know this is a really old post, but the lens isn't glass or acrylic, the movie prop used a Nikon Nikkor 8mm F8 camera lens for the eye
Reply 12 years ago
The lens is a lens as well (bi-concave, like a magnifying glass - look at the curved reflections). Find an old over-head projector and rip the lenses out of the head. The metal frame could be a bevel from an old clock or barometer. The red glow will be (as GF7U said) a piece of red plastic, fogged somehow (sanded?), with a bright yellow lamp behind that. If you want this flush in your door, you're going to need to poke a hole in the door. That, however, gives the option of adding a hinge, so that you can swing the lamp / red plastic back and peer out of the lens at any visitors.
Reply 12 years ago
Forgot to add - 2001 is one of my all-time favourite films.
12 years ago
Do they sell Acrylic at home depot or Lowe's?
Reply 12 years ago
ctually I just had a thought, it might be betterto use silicon. And I'd use a lamp instead of an led cause it might give iyna more warm glow.
Reply 12 years ago
Or eBay?
12 years ago
If you have an old TFT screen laying around, inside they use a series of thin films, designed to defuse the light.