City theatrical lightwright install#
City theatrical lightwright software#
City theatrical lightwright series#

City theatrical lightwright series#

LIGHT AND OPTICS – This is an excellent series of documents (with graphics) dealing with the nature of light. Also included are formulas and nice color CIE diagrams. This article helps find the CIE value of a color and then relates it to its RGB value. (Author: efg).ĬOLOR RENDERING OF SPECTRA – This is a short (technical) introduction to the CIE color system. For the intermediate and advanced reader. Topics include color science, color theory, vision, color temperature, color calibration, color gamuts, color palettes, tutorials, projects and much more. (Author: Jeffrey Hightower).ĬOLOR REFERENCE LIBRARY – This single page has links to hundreds of color related documents, charts, graphics and tools. This simple (Java) application allows you to mix ‘in real time’ the 3 primary colors of light (red, green and blue) providing a nice demonstration of ‘additive’ color mixing. (Author: Charles Brush).ĬOLOR MIXING DEMONSTRATION – (Java Gel) Prove that Red and Green light really do mix to make Yellow. Links to graphics and photos are included – from The Museum of Electricity. (99 pages) (Author: Bill Williams).ĪRC LAMPS – a single page document that describes several early electric arc lamps (from about 1870). This document is intended as a serious research tool for the lighting student or the experienced lighting professional. Lightwright 6 is distributed exclusively by the City Theatrical network of dealers worldwide.A HISTORY OF LIGHT AND LIGHTING – Lighting, from pre-history to modern day, all arranged in chronological order. John McKernon’s new Lightwright 6 gives users even more data exchange features, and more ways to make the life of the designer, design assistant, and electrician easier and more secure. New worksheet features such as Gaps, Headers, and Short make seeing and manipulating data faster than ever and Lightwright 6 includes support for Apple Macintosh Retina displays.įor the last 18 years Lightwright has been used on over 90% of all Broadway and touring productions. Source Four bodies is quick and easy with Lightwright 6. Many facilities maintain large quantities of Source Four fixtures and lenses. A busy production electrician can print as many as 60,000 labels per year! Lightwright 6’s built-in label design and printing features will cut hours from the time it takes to create and print labels, utilizing a built in Avery® label database. To organize their shows and to provide easy identification of gear, production electricians carefully label everything, including lights, cables, breakouts, power supplies, dimmer racks, and data distribution gear. Lightwright 6 has dozens of other new features for lighting users, including a built in label maker. Lightwright 6 brings us Console Link for ETC’s Eos family, which changes the way we work in the theater by allowing console data to flow back and forth between Lightwright and the lighting console, including the ability to control console channels directly from Lightwright. Lightwright 5 brought lighting users Data Exchange between Lightwright and Vectorworks, changing the way thousands of designers develop their light plots by allowing Vectorworks lighting data to be brought directly into Lightwright, and allowing design changes to flow back and forth between the two programs. Lightwright 6, for the first time, fulfills a longtime industry dream of controlling the flow of lighting data from design to console without needing to enter data multiple times by hand, while documenting up to 45,000 universes of data.

City theatrical lightwright install#

More details from City Theatrical ( Lightwright is an iconic industry standard on Broadway and in other areas of live entertainment, and was created to help designers and electricians record and keep track of the vast amount of data needed to install and maintain a lighting installation.Īs the lighting world has increased in complexity due to the proliferation of moving lights and LEDs, the organizational demands on lighting designers, design assistants, and electricians has continued to grow. John McKernon will be on hand all three days to demonstrate the new features and to speak with present and future Lightwright users. Lightwright 6 will be launched at USITT 2016 on March 17-19th in Salt Lake City.

City theatrical lightwright software#

John McKernon and City Theatrical have announced that Lightwright 6, the newest version of software for managing entertainment lighting paperwork, will be released in April 2016.