Make: Volume 91

with lights rather than highlighting a particular

element.

You’ll find that some of the lower-quality lights

have individual red, green, and blue lamps on

the fixture. While this might seem at first like you

won’t get the clean light colors you want to make,

you’d be surprised at how well they do mix with

a bit of distance. In Figure D, we used a cheaper

lamp to create an edge-lit effect by putting it on

the edge of a large piece of acrylic. At the base

of the acrylic the three colors aren’t mixed, but

after a few inches they fully mix to create really

nice colors. We covered the first few inches

of the acrylic so that only the full effect ...