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By: Jeremy SuttonImprint: Focal Press
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Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance and Entertainment continues to be the most trusted text for working and aspiring lighting professionals. Now in its second edition, it has been fully updated to include new advances in lamp sources such as LEDs and plasma lamps, automated and programmable displays, updates for managing color, and new methods for using electronics. Its clear, easy-to-understand language also includes enough detailed information for the most experienced technician and engineer.
* The most trusted and comprehensive book on automated lighting available!
* Easy to read with minimal "tech-talk"
* Covers the latest advances in lighting displays, such as automated LED other and programmable displays
* New methods for using electronics
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| Title of eBook: Painter X Creativity | |
| Release Date: 08-16-2007 | |
| Publisher: Focal Press |
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Painter X Creativity
Chapter One
Automated Lighting in the Third MillenniumTalent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: `Are you ready?'—Johnny Carson, television personality
In the fall of 1998, a handful of people got a peek into the future of the entertainment lighting industry. In a private showing across the street from the Lighting Dimensions International (LDI) trade show in Phoenix, Arizona, a group of employees from Lighting & Sound Design (LSD) unveiled a prototype of the Icon M. In that rarefied air, a select group of lighting designers witnessed the promise of the first digital luminaire with "soft" gobos that were designed and projected digitally using a graphics engine driven by Texas Instruments' Digital Mirror Device (DMD). Not since the Genesis tour with original Vari*Lite automated luminaires in 1981 had such a monumental paradigm shift taken place in the industry. But not in the way the participants expected.
Even though the Icon M was never fully realized as a commercial success, it was a groundbreaking luminaire that sparked a revolution in the lighting industry. It enabled a massive expansion of expressive freedom in lighting and set design, and helped overcome the limitations of "conventional" automated luminaires. Now, instead of having a fixed palette of gobos in a luminaire, the lighting designer could design custom soft gobos by the thousands and call them up at will. Not only could they rotate, like a gobo rotator, but they could also morph, blend, change, move, and do anything that could be done with video. In fa
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