I had to google the Brazilian flag… Had never noticed that detail…
All I know is that Brazil is a heavily industrialized country, that the quality of what they make is worse than the European counterparts at a significantly higher cost, and that they have fucked up politics.
As for the quality of what many south American countries make, well, you get what you’d expect to get out of protectionism; higher costs for lower quality…
Anyways, I wasn’t expecting the Australian and New Zealand flags to be that similar!
Same here, if this works, ill expand this little guy, but lets start small
That is exactly what i was going for, this placement is a lot random, but if this works, i will expand it a little less randomly. I have a few ideas for designs id like to try, but i wanted to test the base process before getting too carried away.
As it sits, part 1 complete (for reference, top to bottom is about 60mm and side to side is about 35mm area):
Very good question.. no idea.. the only thing that could be of concern would be x-rays actually. I don’t see any problems with MRI but x-rays are much higher energy than UV, and in theory if the powder reacts with it and absorbs any of its energy, it could actually generate heat.
Thankfully we don’t live in the 1900s anymore and pretty much every x-ray system in use today uses a digital sensor and not actual film. The amount of x-ray energy required by digital sensors to obtain a descent image these days is orders of magnitude less than what’s required by film x-rays. Even so, the exposure time and intensity of the radiation even for film x-rays is quite low. Either ways, you might get a very bright “flash” from your powder when the x-ray source pulses.. but it should not be a concern.
The only serious concern in this area, if the glow powder does actually absorb x-ray energy, would be radiation treatments for cancer. These emissions are very high intensity and if any reactive powder was in the path of the radiation source, it could heat rapidly.. maybe even sort of “explode” in a way.
We should try to get some testing done. I think @Satur9 has access to some x-ray equipment. I think cancer treatment radioactive sources still use x-ray but the machines that do this type of treatment are highly controlled and difficult to get access to (or so I hear). I’m willing to put up sample powder for testing purposes if anyone has access to various x-ray or even gamma radiological sources.
I have access to a dental X-ray device, 60kv tube, so not as high penetrating as other xrays, which might increase how much it dumps into the powder.
I don’t think too many people have glow powder in and around their mouths, but I can see if I can test if it heats the powder I got from the DT store, before I put it in my body. Don’t know about giving myself an xray dose tho. Its possible tho that you might not be able to determine based on the glow powder itself, heat might dissipate too fast to really tell when not in a body.
I think whether or not it fluoresces at all in the presence of x-rays is the bigger indicator that it’s absorbing energy from the x-rays. Easier to test for than heat with such a momentary source.
I had the fun thought of keeping some glow powder on hand and working it into any wounds as they occur through circumstance.
As time progresses, one would end up with many differently glowing patches and cuts across their body which document some history. I suppose it’d also document clumsiness.
I really love the idea ! But it should be done carefully, because I guess you won’t like having the glow powder getting somewhere you wouldn’t want because the cut or the wound was deeper than initially thought.
Not too much to update about, but I came up with a new idea with the dermal punch method and started with a test dot, which during healing got smaller and healed up with not even as much as a tiny spec of glow left. My skin really don’t like this stuff. Kinda running out of ideas here but not giving up yet…
Questions for those who have posted photos and/or those with glowing scarifications:
How much justice do these photos do, are they as bright as the photos make them look?
Whats the smallest cut/line/scar would you say is the minimum size? Would ~3mm be too small (about the width of a NExT implant)?
For context, Im swapping out my debit card conversion in my hand soon and was thinking of getting a tattoo of the tap to pay symbol next to it. But after seeing this thread, Im thinking of pivoting to glowing scarification instead and possibly designing something more like circuit board lines instead.
healing well, the small dots are 99% healed, the large ones are getting there (details bellow).
On fresh scaring, id say it does justice, its supper bright and last really long time.
I would say the smaller (1.5mm punch) are better. The 3mm punch are much dimmer than the 3mm. Everything was super bright, but once the scab came out, the remainder powder in the larger scars was very minimal. The body is REALLY GOOD at getting foreign bodies out of wounds.
It seam if the wound can close over the powder it retains it and heal around it, while if the scar is too large, the body push everything into the scab witch eventually gets pushed out (note i am not a doc, im just a rando on the internet, there is no medical or science here, just “science” ). I think you would get a better powder retention if you do a thin cut, stuff it with powder and hold it as tight as possible so the skin can heal over the stuffed powder.
The small dots are aqua and the large ones are green. the aquas are much cleaner and brighter than the larger ones.
This picture makes the glow “pop” a bit more than it appears by eye, but overall, its pretty good.
I also drizzled powder in the needle and the opening when i installed my xSIID, the picture looks pretty good, but its barely visible after “charging”, even in a dark room. Note @Hamspiced have a better result than i did with mine.
I also have an X-glow i need to install, i think it will have much better brightness over the long term due to the density of the actual powder. ill post side by side eventually.
To make it clear, i am not disappointed in any way, this is a very new product and it is performing exactly as it is intended. I will keep playing with this and will probably add a few dots on the spread.
Get some and sprinkle it in during the install?
For me I think it shows better on camera. But yeah, it is really bright when fresh and not covered by skin.
I think that if it’s a thin cut, it could potentially be as short as what’s still long enough to be considered a cut, as long as it can trap some powder in it? If that makes sense.
First thing I did was going down the almost forbidden road, poking the stuff. Like a ”stick and poke” tattoo. (what I do best) Turned out to be very hard as it’s not nearly the same as ink, but I still got some to stay. Then, the cutting on my pinky, some is still in there, but nothing wants to stay on the palm side. Tried removing skin, nothing. Cut and poke the powder in deeper with a needle, still noting.
The dermal punch, (on my wrist) well I kept it covered during the whole healing process basically, so it did not even form a proper scab. Not a spec left.
I second this. A clean cut deep enough closing on the powder trapping it in seems to be it. My artistic soul is crying. Filling areas this way and make it look solid?? Oh my…
Im going back to my first attempt, see if I can figure something out that way. But I do not recommend it. (It’s explained in detail why, and i’ve experienced it even with just hand poking.)
It’s a good working alternative. I thought of doing this when I installed the xg3 but I wanted more thoughtfully shaped stuff, don’t get me wrong!
But whatever glows your boat I guess, did I get it right this time @amal? Haha!
Just another sign of addiction I guess. 
