{"id":282,"date":"2011-05-10T07:06:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/?p=282"},"modified":"2011-07-11T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T18:32:46","slug":"lighting-design-and-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Design and Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I used to run lights and sound for bands \/ magicians \/ comedians etc. on a cruise ship and for a short while I taught lighting at a digital arts college in Emeryville, CA. So it&#8217;s been interesting for me to see some projects roll in where people are using Control to manipulate lighting setups. Joey Ferguson, a lighting designer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaurora.com\">Theatre Aurora<\/a> used the MIDI transmitting capabilities of Control to feed a ETC Express board (I used an ETC Expression board back in the day). He posted <a href=\"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/forum\/topic.php?id=25\">a forum entry<\/a> about his interface that you can check out.<\/p>\n<p>More recently forum member Paul who does lighting design for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagerstheatre.net\">Villagers Theatre<\/a> created an interface that is over 3,000 lines in length using a Perl script to automatically layout banks of sliders, buttons, and labels. He also wrote a nice script to translate OSC messages into messages that can be understood by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanbox.com\/\">LanBox<\/a>, a DMX control devices that can be controlled over ethernet (DMX is the protocol most smart-lighting devices speak). He created a short video of this script in action, with the cellular automata demo that comes with Control being used to control the lighting setup at his theatre:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/chakobsa.net\/Control\/OSC%20Control%20to%20Lanbox%20demo.mov' >Control with the LanBox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/forum\/topic.php?id=96\">the forum thread where he talks about his setup<\/a>, and below is a screenshot of the interface he created. The interface includes some custom scripting to throttle OSC transmission to a rate that the LanBox can handle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chakobsa.net\/Control\/Faderboard.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I used to run lights and sound for bands \/ magicians \/ comedians etc. on a cruise ship and for a short while I taught lighting at a digital arts college in Emeryville, CA. So it&#8217;s been interesting for me to see some projects roll in where people are using Control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlie-roberts.com\/Control\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}