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Chroma-Q ColorWeb 125<br />
Barco MiTrix<br />
PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS<br />
Low-Resolution LED Displays<br />
If you need any convincing that we’re entering<br />
a period of amazing technology, try<br />
visiting www.ted.<strong>com</strong>/index.php/talks/<br />
blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.<br />
html and watch Blaise Aguera y Arcas demo<br />
Photosynth. You’ll see a powerful piece of<br />
software that grafts together a variety of images<br />
and links them in 3D space. It’s amazing<br />
to watch the pixels fly.<br />
This is just one example of how far video<br />
processing and imaging has <strong>com</strong>e. Every year<br />
we seem to cram more and more pixels onto<br />
displays by blending, adding resolution, expanding<br />
systems, and piling pixels on top of<br />
pixels. So why, then, are video, lighting and<br />
set designers fascinated with low-resolution<br />
displays? Probably for the same reason that<br />
Henri Matisse was fascinated with bright<br />
color, and why he favored expression over<br />
detail.<br />
Low-resolution LED displays provide ample<br />
opportunity for the Matisse in all of us to<br />
cut loose with bright color and bold shapes.<br />
While Henri permanently <strong>com</strong>mitted pigment<br />
to canvas, the modern-day Matisse uses<br />
LEDs on a variety of surfaces and a <strong>com</strong>puter<br />
to generate any image that can be imagined.<br />
But the way the canvas takes the image depends<br />
on a variety of factors; the type of LEDs,<br />
the pixel pitch (how far apart they’re spaced),<br />
the way the LEDs are held in place and how<br />
they are fed video content. Of course, there<br />
BUYERS GUIDE<br />
are so many other considerations that Henri<br />
didn’t have to worry about — how they are<br />
rigged, the size and weight of the display,<br />
their suitability for indoor or outdoor use and<br />
more. This Buyer’s Guide will help you pick<br />
the proper canvas for your masterpiece.<br />
Matisse, along with Maurice de Vlaminck<br />
and André Derain, were called “les Fauves,” or<br />
“wild beasts” by a French art critic for their bold<br />
use of color. If ever there was a more apt group<br />
of artists who deserve the label of “wild beasts,”<br />
it has to be the video, lighting and set designers<br />
of today. Thanks to the power of <strong>com</strong>puters<br />
and the ingenuity of low-resolution LED displays,<br />
Matisse, who once said that the future of<br />
art is light, lives in all of us.<br />
Daktronics ProPixel<br />
Elation Low-Res LEDs<br />
Lighthouse LEDscape Bar<br />
Martin EvenLED panel<br />
PixelRange PixelLine1044<br />
Robe StageQube 324<br />
Staging Dimensions High-Resolution Pixel Panel<br />
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