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Artistic Licence Wins PLASA 2005 Award with Visual-Patch
Visual-Patch, developed by Artistic Licence, has won a PLASA 2005 Award for Innovation. Combining video recognition technology and newly developed software, Visual-Patch can map and patch even the most complex lighting arrays.
A digital camera is positioned before the array and detects the size, position and shape of each pixel to be used, in both symmetrical and random patterns. This information is then analysed by Visual-Patch, which generates an automatic lighting plot on screen.
Visual-Patch uses Remote Device Management (RDM) to set the start address of each fixture during the patching process. RDM is a new control protocol that allows lighting fixtures to talk back to the controller.
When Visual-Patch completes you are left with a lighting rig that is fully patched and a lighting controller that knows the position and address of every fixture. All that without entering a single number!
Visual-Patch is relevant to all types of lighting control, not just LED applications. In fact Artistic Licence is already developing the next generation of Visual-Patch which uses multiple camera positions to generate a 3D map of the stage.
Visual-Patch is built into Artistic Licence's Colour Tramp lighting control system and will also be available under licence to other manufacturers.
http://www.artisticlicence.com
22nd September 2005
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