Travis Brick Stained Glass Window

 Here's one of the two stained-glass patterns I made in a rush for the convention:

I'm not sure how this came to be either? I was supposed to be doing other things that never actually got finished. But suddenly I loved the idea of having small dots being different colors than the surrounding window. 

It looked okay when lit up at the convention. A lot of kids ooh-ed and ah-ed. The convention had no electric outlets I could use, so I searched my house frantically until I found something battery-powered that would work passably well, an old light-up blue tooth speaker.

Here it is at the convention. I really wished I'd had my plug-in light.

The light I wished I could have used:

I ran out of time, but I have all sorts of ideas that I think would be fun to work on. A LEGO Lite Brite seems like it would be pretty easy to do. 

Oh look, someone made one already. (I am pretty sure that everything has already been made before.)

https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/d8d563c5-3420-45c7-85e0-5c896ba61f6b

I think that twisting the Travis bricks would be fun:

I wish I'd thought of that BEFORE going to the convention. But that was a huge rush.

Here's what it looks like underneath:

It would be so much fun to experiment with different color patterns and see what pops up. Might be easier to experiment with by printing out a black and white copy and coloring it in. 

Here was an experiment with angling the Travis bricks different ways. I liked the idea of having the colored bits be in rectangles pointing in different directions, but overall I don't think it makes much of an impact.

I wonder about all sorts of different options with colors... I'll have to get back to it sometime. Here's a tablescrap to help me remember some things I want to fiddle with:

You could mess with the color of studs and tiles and bricks and maybe dots. It would probably work best in stained glass, but opaque could be fun too? And now I need to make a list of all parts that have holes in them that could let light through. I actually need to make quite a few reference lists of parts, especially with all these new ones coming out in the last decade or so. It might help the info to stay in my head and not slide out my ear. That seems to be happening a lot more as I get older. 

One last thing:

Looking at the original from the convention at a certain angle made a certain pattern that I really liked. Let's see if I can get a photo to capture it.

Close enough!

This was another "quilt square", a pattern built on a 16 x16 plate with technic bricks on the side so that I could pin it to other squares. But in the end I didn't connect them, but left them separate in order to take up more space on the convention table. 

In the kitchen. Please forgive the window. It is permanently stained from irrigation water hitting it: