Sorry for filming on a potato … the autofocus fucked me once I turned on the UV light and I didn’t notice. Thankfully we don’t care about fine detail here, only lumosity over time.
This is a green xGlow next to a sample of our green glow powder.
To me it looks like the first 20 mins or so has a similar brightness profile… the powder might be at a slight advantage, but if I was smart I would have limited the amount of powder to the same approximate volume as the xGlow … I do think the simple large surface area of powder visible to the camera lends it a fractional advantage over the xGlow.
What I can say is that we tested several “glow in the dark” filaments like what you might see for 3D printers and the like, and man there is no contest… this is the best possible light output for the longest amount of time in a polymerized rod you can find.
In the future we may just cast our own glow powder resin rods, but for now we are sourcing these polymer rods from a specialized factory. The glow rods are a form of PLA with a similar glow powder “impregnated” into it (their words). This is then encapsulated in our bio-resin.
