soundlight
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Here it is - my last huzzah for the Dept. of Theatre and Dance Open House. (Make sure to watch in high quality, it's ever so much better!) There will be other light shows this semester, but none of this scale. I realized halfway through building this rig how big it was, how much copper it would take to cable it, and how much weight I had to throw (let me tell ya, I got a good work out from this!), and how long it was going to take to program the four-hundred-and-eighty-some cues I had planned during my epic timecoding session.
This rig is made up primarily of interlocking triangles. There're two triangles of Seachanger Washes, the center triangle of the Intellabeams, the 4 triangles of S4 Pars with scrollers up top, the v-shapes that the mini-floods make, the v-shapes that the S4 Pars in the mid levels make when lit, etc. Just a lot of triangles.
We got some ETC IONs recently, so I programmed the show on one of those. Made things so much faster than the Obsession. And I was able to use follow times because the follow times go down to two decimal places. The console still hiccuped a little bit at times because of how much I was telling it to do (over 2 cues a second). All told, the show has almost 500 cues in under 3 minutes.
I love the seachanger washes. I zoomed them all the way down, and was able to do so much with them. The intellabeams, as usual, are the core of the show; but the Seachangers provided me with so much versatility. I also used the crap out of the mini floods and pinspots. Those things are awesome when sequenced right.
My favorite part in this show is the red and tungsten/halogen section. Wall of red with punch lights of various sorts coming through. I love it.
The video does not do this rig justice - it was huge! I spent far too much time on it and would never spend that much time on a light show rig again, but man it was a nice rig.
Also, the RP screen was an amazing effect live - it was in until the first full rainbow, as you see. Amazing effect.
I will admit that I did try to set the standard so astronomically high that it won't be met for a few years. There is a rather ambitious sophomore though who will be around for a few years to try to top me, though...
Creative criticism accepted, appreciated, and encouraged!
This rig is made up primarily of interlocking triangles. There're two triangles of Seachanger Washes, the center triangle of the Intellabeams, the 4 triangles of S4 Pars with scrollers up top, the v-shapes that the mini-floods make, the v-shapes that the S4 Pars in the mid levels make when lit, etc. Just a lot of triangles.
We got some ETC IONs recently, so I programmed the show on one of those. Made things so much faster than the Obsession. And I was able to use follow times because the follow times go down to two decimal places. The console still hiccuped a little bit at times because of how much I was telling it to do (over 2 cues a second). All told, the show has almost 500 cues in under 3 minutes.
I love the seachanger washes. I zoomed them all the way down, and was able to do so much with them. The intellabeams, as usual, are the core of the show; but the Seachangers provided me with so much versatility. I also used the crap out of the mini floods and pinspots. Those things are awesome when sequenced right.
My favorite part in this show is the red and tungsten/halogen section. Wall of red with punch lights of various sorts coming through. I love it.
The video does not do this rig justice - it was huge! I spent far too much time on it and would never spend that much time on a light show rig again, but man it was a nice rig.
Also, the RP screen was an amazing effect live - it was in until the first full rainbow, as you see. Amazing effect.
I will admit that I did try to set the standard so astronomically high that it won't be met for a few years. There is a rather ambitious sophomore though who will be around for a few years to try to top me, though...
Creative criticism accepted, appreciated, and encouraged!
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(Though I still don't understand why he insists on using follows instead of the more common, and in my experience easier, 
