Features
An automated light, properly called a luminaire, fixture (or sometimes moving head), is a versatile and multi-function instrument designed to replace multiple conventional, non-moving lights. Depending on the venue and application, automated luminaires can be a versatile and economical addition to a stock of traditional lights because, with proper programming, they can swiftly alter many aspects of their optics, changing the “personality” of the light very quickly. Lighting is typically pre-programmed and played back using only simple commands, although moving heads can be controlled “live” if the operator is sufficiently experienced.
Most moving heads have all or some of the features, each feature is set to a channel number, such as this:
- Pan
- Tilt
- Fine Pan
- Fine Tilt
- Dimmer
- Shutter
- Gobo1 Select
- Gobo1 Rotation
- Gobo2 Select
- Gobo2 Rotation
- Gobo3 Select
- Colour1
- Cyan
- Magenta
- Yellow
- Prism 3,5,9facet
- Prism Rotation
- Effects Wheel
- Gobo Animation Wheel
- Zoom
- Focus
- Iris
- Lamp Shut off, fixture reset
- Remote patching channel
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Famous quotes containing the word features:
“Art is the child of Nature; yes,
Her darling child, in whom we trace
The features of the mother’s face,
Her aspect and her attitude.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
““It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with overeagerness
To see what people found so interesting
In one another, and had gone to sleep
Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)