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Guides, festival reports, and behind-the-scenes stories from the world of LED installations and live visuals.

The hanging iceberg glowing blue and pink against the dark exhibition room.

September 11, 2026

Purkutaide 2026: Immersive LED installation

What was left unsaid — Building a glowing LED iceberg in an exhibition space marked for

installation · behind-the-scenes · led-mapping

A close view of ITU's hanging plywood crystal glowing red and warm white beneath artificial greenery.

September 10, 2026

ITU: Plywood sculpture & LED light show and installation

Two plywood crystals, a room full of vines and LEDs, and a custom soundtrack made for our first independent exhibition at Galleria Myötä in Helsinki.

installation · behind-the-scenes

Filament's code editor showing WGSL source alongside a live moiré preview and parameter controls.

August 29, 2026

Write your own effects in WGSL

A custom Filament effect is one WGSL file, written in a built-in editor with live preview - no build step, and a broken shader never takes the show down.

custom-effects · wgsl · creative-coding

A Bezier curve being drawn across Filament's mapping canvas, anchor handles visible.

August 28, 2026

How to LED map with Filament: from a fresh install to video on your strips

The whole path, start to finish: install the app, draw your strips over a photo, route them to your controller, and play video onto real pixels.

tutorial · led-mapping · wled

LED curves laid out across Filament's mapping canvas.

August 22, 2026

Filament vs Resolume Arena

Map LEDs over a photo of your rig, inspect live channel output, and mix the whole show in Filament. See how it compares with Resolume Arena and bring your existing mappings along.

resolume · vjing · led-mapping