ABSTRACT
A long time agowhile attending a lighting convention, I sat in on a discussion of the newest innovations in automated lighting technology. At the end of the seminar, a well-respected LD was asked what he thought was the Holy Grail of automated lighting. He said that in the next 10 to 15 years all lights would be digital. He described a systemwhere instead of usingmechanical functions and glass to change the output of a fixture, everything would be generated in a video-like format. These digital lighting fixtures would bemore than just a video projector on a yoke, as they would contain specific software to enable them to behave as lighting fixtures. Any image, any texture, any color could be projectedwith no limits. I was thrilled by this vision and hoped it would come true sooner than later.
