>> I wonder if there is any such project which can drive these
>> large no. of LEDs and also provide a mechanism to design lighting =20
>> effects
>> favorably through a linux box. any such thing in this planet ?

You might want to look at the cubatron projects from 3waylabs.
    http://www.3waylabs.com/projects/cubatron/
    http://www.3waylabs.com/projects/brc/
They've done about that many LEDs, animated at 50 frames/sec, with a =20
linux box as the top level controller.  There are some technical =20
details, but it's not in any sense "published" in the details.

It seems that Mark's strategy is to make each "voxel" an independently =20
addressable RGB LED, after which it's just a matter of communications =20
protocol, wiring, and software...  And money, of course.

BillW

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