ABSTRACT
In the mid-1990s, Light & Sound Design (LSD) debuted a product called the Icon M (Medusa). When it came on the scene, it was a revolutionary breakthrough in the lighting industry. While it only saw limited use and remained an in-house product due to reasons like the fixture’s DLP micromirror technology (not used in today’s digital lighting luminaires), low output, and its need for proprietary control, it did prove that the industry could create a fixture with a much larger library of digital images. High End Systems (HES) continued the research and development on solving the digital gobo problem, and in the late 1990s, HES teamed up with hardware developers WWG and SAM Show Control software developer Richard Bleasdale to develop a prototype digital lighting product, code-named Vertigo.
