Here is another script I wrote some months ago. It’s called qlc-effects-generator.py . It’s a quick and dirty hack that generate chasers, groups and scenes for QLC (a QT-based DMX lighting software) . It just produce XML statements you copy’n’paste in your .qxw QLC workspace file.

I used it to create some effects for my 4 el-cheapo Mac-Mah LED wider panels . This script helped me generate column and row presets of my 4x8 pixels LED matrix for some basic colors:

Q Light Controller workspace with four Wider Panels patched in the fixture manager, a long list of generated per-column colour functions on the right, and a console of 22 DMX faders below

Here are some photos of my preliminary tests at home:

Four LED panels on microphone stands in a tiled hallway at home, all washing the room magenta

The same four panels running deep blue, the individual LEDs visible as a fine grid

The same four panels in saturated red, spilling across the floor tiles

The same four panels at full white, showing the cold cast of the raw LEDs

And finally photos of the panels on stage ( taken by Toma Heroow during Cool Cavemen’s concert in last november  ):

The band playing under a marquee, two of the LED panels standing on end behind the drum kit as vertical red bars against blue wash

Bass player and saxophonist lit from below in blue and cyan, shot from the front of the stage

Guitarist and singer in near silhouette against a deep red stage, one LED panel glowing as a bright column between them

As usual, use and hack this script at you own risks, and feel free to send me bug reports and contributions! :)