Trace Lighting Prepares Launch of LimeLIGHT, PC Based Controller at PLASA

In just a few weeks, the PLASA show hits London with a slew of new products being announcement.  Trace Lighting is joining in with the announcement of their PC based lighting control software, LimeLIGHT.

LimeLIGHT is a PC-based lighting controller, consisting of a small and reliable output unit combined with powerful yet easy-to-use software.

LimeLIGHT is designed to be quick and easy to program, whilst allowing you to do more than other consoles. Features such as LimeLIGHT’s “auto-chase wizard” (pictured below) allow the user to create large complex chases over 100’s of fixtures. These chases can at their simplest take the form of consecutive lights, through to complex swirls and expansions over large banks of LED’s through to colour chases on CMY moving heads. Such chases can be run either relative (e.g. flash the brightness up then return to it’s previous level) or absolute (e.g. blue then white). The complexity of chases that can be accomplished with a few simple, self explanatory selections will astound you.

Features included in LimeLIGHT

• Colours can be represented and faded in any colour space.
• Attributes can fade at different speeds in any cue
• An unlimited number of cue lists
• Accurate tap based speed control – any number of taps, not just the average of the last two.
• Plug ins allow cue’s to come from other programs e.g. media players

LimeLIGHT is only available for Windows based PC’s. To learn more about Trace Lighting’s LimeLIGHT control software, visit their website at www.tracelighting.com.

Tuesday Twitter Trivia Winner – Limelight

This weeks Tuesday Twitter Trivia took us back in time once again to see where the industry came from. So a quick recap from yesterday with the trivia question:

What is a Limelight and how does it work?

So what is a Limelight?

A Limelight is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created when an oxyhydrogen flame is directed at a cylinder of quick lime (calcium oxide), which can be raised to 2572°C before melting. The light is produced by a combination of incandescence and candoluminescence. Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be “in the limelight.”

How about some history of the Limelight.

The limelight effect was discovered in the 1820s by Goldsworthy Gurney, based on his work with the “oxy-hydrogen blowpipe,” credit for which is normally given to Robert Hare. In 1825, a Scottish engineer, Thomas Drummond (1797–1840), saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday and realized that the light would be useful for surveying. Drummond built a working version in 1826, and the light is sometimes known as the Drummond Light after him.

Limelight was first used in public in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1837 and enjoyed widespread use in theatres around the world in the 1860s and 1870s. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots. Limelight was replaced by electric arc lighting in the late 19th century.

So who had the correct answer in yesterday via twitter.  With the 140 character limit, Mr. Josh Allen or @JoshAllen was first in with an mention reply rather then than a direct message and wins a iSquint Prize Pack. Thanks for playing, look for more Tuesday Twitter Trivia next week and beyond here on iSquint.

Have an idea for a Tuesday Twitter Trivia question that might stump us?  Send me your ideas via the Contact Us page on iSquint.

Thanks Wikipedia for the history lesson!

Tuesday Twitter Trivia – Limelight

Tuesday is here once again and that means it is Tuesday Twitter Trivia Time!  This week we are going back in history once again to see how much you know about were lighting came from.  It is important to know where and how lighting got it’s start and how it shaped the industry that we love. So this weeks Tuesday Twitter Trivia question is:

What is a Limelight and how does it work?

Last week I changed how to submit your response.  Rather then sending a direct message through twitter, send an reply to @iSquint with your response.  The first one in the the correct answer wins an iSquint prize pack. The winner will be announced tomorrow along with a little history of the question.

Have a Tuesday Twitter Trivia question that might stump us?  Let me know by sending me a message through the Contact Us page here on iSquint.