ABSTRACT
Once there was a time when the bringing-forth of the true into the beautiful was called technology. And art was simply called techne.—Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
The year 1999 was a watershed in automated lighting. At LDI in November of that year, Light & Sound Design (now part of PRG) displayed the fi rst digital light, called the Icon M. It was a moving yoke fi xture that projected “soft gobos”—gobos that could be created with software rather than hardware-and animation created by the use of a Texas Instruments Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) under the control of a microprocessor. It was the fi rst time that the idea of marrying automated lighting and video was presented to the industry, and after it was demonstrated, it was clear where automated lighting technology was going in the next few years.
