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• 1. Ross Hershberger  |  August 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  Not made of LEDs. This is phosphor based electroluminescent material. Completely different physics.

• 2. Frank the SciencePunk  |  August 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  Well corrected. I should have read the Sceptical Chymist’s article more carefully:

  In some places on the web people are saying that these sculptures are made from organic light-emitting diodes (which is what first attracted my attention). After a closer look, however, this doesn’t seem to be the case. The electroluminescent (EL) tapes appear to be a copper wire threaded through a layer of phosphor, covered in a protective plastic sheath.

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