what to use to get the best purple blade

**Jedi-Loreen** · 04-04-2007, 11:15 PM

You can't really do a different colored core, either, the 2 colors would just blend together.

**Barmic Rin** · 04-05-2007, 12:28 AM

I know you can't ATM, i'm just saying it'd be cool if someone found a way of doing it.
If anyone decided to download the KOTOR mod i'm sure they'd agree it looks very cool, especially the light trails some of them leave behind.

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**UltraSWG** · 04-05-2007, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by supertrogdor

This has been mentioned several times in the past, and you are more than welcome to try it to test the theory, but as i understand it blue light carries no red within it, so filtering it just cancels out the light. Same for red filtered by blue. White light carries all light frequencies and therefore filtering it red, blue, purple whatever only allows those frequencies to pass through. It does therefore dim you white light, but only because it is keeping the other colors from passing through the filter. Again, feel free to try it yourself, but that is what has been mentioned previously

MR makes purple Windu blades by using a string of blue LED's inside a pink plastic tube.

Correct me if I'm wrong, this was a while back, but I think I remember Corbin stating that a red filter on a bin 1 cyan makes a purple as well.

**Barmic Rin** · 04-05-2007, 01:46 AM

Ultra, how do you get the purple for your apprentice sabers? Filter?

It's pretty dark, but I imagine most peeps would still be happy with it.

**UltraSWG** · 04-05-2007, 02:29 AM

Lux III white and a purple Lee filter. Certainly not as bright as an unfiltered Lux, but alot more "purply" than people are used to, so they're happy with them.

**Barmic Rin** · 04-05-2007, 02:40 AM

Cool. My Lee swatch book arrived yesterday, but haven't tested any filters out yet.

**james3** · 04-05-2007, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by UltraSWG

Originally Posted by supertrogdor

This has been mentioned several times in the past, and you are more than welcome to try it to test the theory, but as i understand it blue light carries no red within it, so filtering it just cancels out the light. Same for red filtered by blue. White light carries all light frequencies and therefore filtering it red, blue, purple whatever only allows those frequencies to pass through. It does therefore dim you white light, but only because it is keeping the other colors from passing through the filter. Again, feel free to try it yourself, but that is what has been mentioned previously

MR makes purple Windu blades by using a string of blue LED's inside a pink plastic tube.

Correct me if I'm wrong, this was a while back, but I think I remember Corbin stating that a red filter on a bin 1 cyan makes a purple as well.

This is one of them weird deals.

I have used different stuff to get the purple deal too and most of the Lee filters just don't do the deed that well. If we could use some kind of pink tinted film with a blue LED I think it would probably work like the stock MR blade does. That is just a guess and one I have not tried ONLY because I can't find any pink film wrap. They make it, I have seen it, it just seems that Richmond area doesn't have it.

The Lee filters are designed like we said to pass the light you want out of a white bulb, that is how stage lights work. I used a bin 5 or 6 blue 3w with several of the red filters and just could not get what I wanted but that doesn't mean someone else shouldn't do it too.

I pretty much do the white with the "super purple" filter like Ultra does as well. It may not be perfect but it works.