blade filler

[JediHilt]

I wonder what kind of a blade effect silica could produce?
http://www.geocities.com/wwindmills/...ilica_gel.html

[Darth Zecks]

Do you mean putting it on the lens or on the inside of the blade? By what I saw on the link that just might be pretty awesome.

[Novastar]

Try it, Jedi Hilt... get back to everyone and tell us about the results...

[valeon]

I think it would produce a very neat coring effect, as well as a pretty even blade.

[TimeRender]

What's the point? We all know what happens if you don't use a collimator lens on your saber. The blade is bright right at the emitter and quickly gets dark. Well, regardless of the physical structure of the gel, it is still just acting as a diffuser. If you put a diffuser right on your lens, you're just going to reduce the amount of light that makes it down the blade.

[valeon]

I'm talking about using it in the blade in place of film.

[TimeRender]

Well if you created a film of silica then perhaps, but if you fill the blade with it then it will just diffuse too much light right at the emitter. Since the title of the topic was "blade filler"... well you get what I'm saying...

Edit: And there is no reason to believe that this will work any better and/or differently than any other method of diffusion even if you did somehow turn it into thin films for lining the blade.

[Lord Maul]

Try it, Jedi Hilt... get back to everyone and tell us about the results...

Jedi Hilt never does the things he suggests, he just suggests them...

[Darth Zecks]

If you could some how spread or spray a thin layer on the inside of the blade just like any other diffuser it could give you a really cool looking blade, maybe.

[pipster79]

I tried some silica gel tonight in my saber blade, didnt really make any cool effects or anything. First i tried putting some on the lens, only made the blade darker. Then i tried some in the blade instead, still dark but kinda looked neat, but no cool crater lookin things or cavities, you can just see the beads thats it, no projections of any cool lookin stuff

I only tried it today cuz i rememberd reading about it here when i seen the packet of silica in the box for my new work boots i bought today