RGB Panel for grid hardware?

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AcdNrg
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A standard RGB panel is something I understand, x by y matrix and then you can display things. Pretty much what a computer display works like.

However, if your LED Hardware is something like shown in the attachment, ie a grid of LED strips, this is much like a display with a boatload of dead pixels :). On one hand, you need to take them into account for proper calculation like "draw a circle", but then again the majority of "calculated pixels" can never be activated in the real world.

How can such an installation be addressed and mapped in a meaningful way?

And what can be done about the crossing points, as this would result in double pixels? Anything outside leaving the vertical strips alone and chopping up the horizontal ones, so there is a gap at each crossing? Or physically blacking out one of the two at each crossing?

I´m a bit lost here.
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GGGss
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Oliver,

Welcome to the forum.
Please be realistic... the picture you are showing is like 400+ DMX universes ... Even the big brothers (chams, GrandMA, ...) desks don't have enough parameters to drive them...
IMHO you will need Resolume or Madrix to drive these.
And do you have a budget to realise this? We are talking at least 4 figures $$.
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mcallegari
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That is MADRIX in a club in UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHC9E0FSzDM
https://itp.nyu.edu/classes/leds-sp2015 ... htclub-uk/

64,000 pixels, 375 DMX universes.
2 x MADRIX ultimate

QLC+ is not even close to that.

As for layout, with patience, you can achieve a grid, like this
Immagine 2021-06-28 133000.png
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sandinak
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So mapping is my project for QLC this year.. I hope to be able to allow one to edit a showfile and create better RGBMatrix maps so that you can do some of what you suggest on a small scale. I've run ~60 DMX U with ~7k RGB leds off of QLC just fine .. tho it took quite a bit of time ( And delicate mouse work ) to select things in order so that the matrix mapped correctly across fixtures. Ihave some intentions of expanding and testing bigger .. but need better visual mapping tools to work. I'll be sure to post here as that project moves along :)
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