# 3d mapping a Christmas tree **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas and Tips\ **Created:** [December 2, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647 "2022-12-02T22:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/u/munkisquisher)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647/1 "2022-12-02T22:12:13Z")
RIghto, the tree went up last night, 250 of the little bullet lights I had running on wled last year, before I came across pixelblaze. Now what are people’s best approaches to 3d mapping them? I see this has done this in the past amazingly well with pixelblaze [XYZ sweeps on 3D mapped tree - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuN5sdo6DW4) And there’s this online calculator [https://led3dmap.lights0123.com/](https://led3dmap.lights0123.com/) does anyone have a pixelblaze pattern that can make this work? Otherwise I was thinking 2d mapping it and fudging the 3rd dimension by hand ---
**Author:** ![jeff](https://forum.electromage.com/user_avatar/forum.electromage.com/jeff/32/3473_2.png) [@jeff](https://forum.electromage.com/u/jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647/2 "2022-12-02T22:33:15Z")
Hey @munkisquisher! I made the video you linked. I published more info this year about it, including the map, [in this post](https://forum.electromage.com/t/20-decent-christmas-tree-patterns/2629). Happy holidays! ---
**Author:** ![munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/u/munkisquisher)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647/3 "2022-12-03T00:07:26Z")
Yes, looping them into an easy to map ring would have been much smarter than zig zagging them back and forward into every little gap! ---
**Author:** ![munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/u/munkisquisher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647/4 "2022-12-05T09:31:34Z")
Two evenings in and man I am almost there mapping my 5 strings in Maya, making a rough model of the room, lining up 3 videos and and triangulating points by hand. ![image](https://forum.electromage.com/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6331924a0964ed7aa587f2cc365959bb0dda948e.jpeg) Is this faster than just rewiring the tree? No Would I do this again? No Does it look great on the tree? Hell yes! ---
**Author:** ![munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/u/munkisquisher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647/5 "2022-12-05T10:07:35Z")
so I placed a bunch of locators to get the paths of the lights, connected them up with a curve, rebuild that curve so it has 50 equal points, then a little python to print out the wordspace of each point ![image](https://forum.electromage.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5480ec07f756b5bf081b4f70e4ca5cee2fc7a6a4.png) Paste that into the mapper and done! ![image](https://forum.electromage.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/312fb92089d7609327426a55ab2f0cf18a4d25ba.png) ---
**Author:** ![wizard](https://forum.electromage.com/user_avatar/forum.electromage.com/wizard/32/4_2.png) [@wizard](https://forum.electromage.com/u/wizard)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647/6 "2022-12-05T16:08:55Z")
That is impressive and quite an interesting technique! ---
**Author:** ![munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@munkisquisher](https://forum.electromage.com/u/munkisquisher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/3d-mapping-a-christmas-tree/2647/7 "2022-12-05T21:01:00Z")
And of course it wouldn’t be fair to post this without some video [https://imgur.com/a/hjFC02j](https://imgur.com/a/hjFC02j)