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Color Kinetics Introduces New Lighting Medium With iColor Module FX
Color Kinetics has introduced iColor Module FX, a new lighting medium in the form of a 6” (15.2 cm) square modular unit for wide-ranging designs that call for singularly controllable points of light from interior surface designs, to backlit fabrics, to three-dimensional objects.
iColor Module FX incorporates nine or 36 tri-color LED nodes, mounted on a printed circuit board, and driven by Color Kinetics’ custom Chromasic microchip. Each LED node within iColor Module FX is individually controllable, whether applied across one unit or a large-scale, multi-unit installation. As a result, designers have a creatively flexible, extensible medium with which to bring complex lighting designs to life, including scrolling text and images, video and animations.
iColor Module FX features simple through holes and board-to-board connectors for versatile mounting options, whether the units are positioned apart or conjoined to form grids and customised shapes. Applications range from simple, color-changing effects to more intricate designs and animations that require the refined level of detail made possible by individually controlled LED nodes.
It is compatible with most Color Kinetics controllers and third-party DMX controllers. To realise its full potential for sophisticated effects, iColor Module FX is optimally controlled by Light System Manager 1.6 – Color Kinetics’ next-generation, Ethernet-based control system. The integrated software/hardware solution facilitates the authoring, management and control of show effects that span multiple DMX universes, including animations imported from graphical design packages like Macromedia Flash. The newly enhanced software component of version 1.6 features the following advantages: importing enhancements; the ability to import a still image, image scroll and scroll a still image up, down, left, right, and diagonally; Ethernet keypad support; the ability to connect multiple keypads to one installation; orientation options including rotation lights within a map; DMX triggering - supports third-party hardware for DMX triggering; new graphical user interface which simplifies triggering, scheduling and playback parameters; iColor Module FX support with map wizard to simplify the map layout.
iColor Module FX will be available in August. Light System Manager 1.6 and Ethernet Controller Keypad are now available.
28th July 2004
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