ShadowMagic vs livetoolkit Usage & Stats
A virtual light lab, or Black Box theatre for visualizing lighting, color, shadows, and scenery.
The lab has a 40’ x 30’ stage and a 40' x 20' cyclorama. The theatre space is 80’ wide, 40’ high, and 80’ deep.
Designers can choose up to eight fixtures to light a very basic scene. Two types of lights are available. The Source Four® Spotlight is available with 14°, 26°, 19°, 36°, 50° lens barrels. The The Source Four® 7” Fresnel may also be selected and zooms from full flood at 65° to spot focus with a beam angle of 20°. All of the beam spreads are photometrically correct.
The lamp for both fixtures is a 750 W HPL, and when it is dimmed the color temperature decreases from 3200° K at full down to 2300° when the light is at 4%. Each light can be dimmed individually or the entire scene lowered using a grand master. Intensity has a resolution of 1%.
A theatre lighting simulator would not be complete without gels and we have over 1600 colors to choose from the 4 major manufacturers. The gels can be assembled into a collection called a gel string and any color from the string can be applied to each light.
Each of the lights may be positioned anywhere around the theatre to simulate booms, shinbusters, or the balcony rail. Resolution of the position is 0.1 feet. When focused on the actor, the lights are auto-focused so you can move the light’s position and see the resulting angle. Lights focused on the backdrop are focused manually by touching the cyc.
When you move or rotate the actor, the lights will follow and stay focused right in the center of the body.
Scenes may be saved and organized into projects. Both can be shared as a .pdf report with colleagues and friends to show off your ideas.
While simple in concept and operation, ShadowMagic has subtleties such as reflections from a matte gray stage covering and the coloring of shadows from other light fixtures. From beginners to seasoned professionals, ShadowMagic makes visualizing and lighting a scene much quicker and easier and more fun.
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Everybody working in the live concert business has experienced situations like this:
You've just arrived at the venue. According to the local promoter everything should have been put up before you arrived, but it hasn't. Now it'll take an hour or more to set up the PA-System and Lighting-gear before you can start to do your actual work. All has to be done as fast as possible. You don't have time to get your laptop out of the car and working just to do some necessary calculations. Now you can just take your iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad® and start doing your calculations with LiveToolkit.
LiveToolkit helps audio technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like:
• Delay times for your PA-system: Conversion between time and distance.
• Stacking distance of your subs: Conversion between frequency and wavelength.
• Getting your PA-Settings into the controller: Conversion from Q-Factor to Bandwidth and back.
• Setting up your controller: Limiter calculations depending on speaker capacity and amp output.
• Getting the musicians tempo: Tap Tempo calculation with different note weightings.
LiveToolkit helps lighting technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like:
• Getting the start address for multiple fixtures based on quantity, channels, and first address used.
• Setting the DMX-address right using a DIP-Switch, or identifying the address value of a DIP-Switch.
LiveToolkit helps any technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like:
• Universal useful conversion between feet and meter and lbs to kg.
• Conversion between Watt, Ampere and Volt.
• Calculate the voltage drop in your cable based on length and profile.
• Trigonometric calculation on heights based on angle & distance.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
• Although good tested - this application remain a piece of Software: rockbaby engineering will not take any responsibility for any issues that may occur using LiveToolkit.
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ShadowMagic VS. 
livetoolkitDecember 15, 2024