Technical issues in the supply and use of LEDs.

Let us look at fixtures first. Generally theatrical use means running fixtures for a few hours a day quite often at less than full intensity. This is a dramatically different pattern of use to that experienced in an architectural environment where prolonged use is more common. Some theatrical fixture manufacturers are now addressing the architectural requirement in the design of fittings, however they do not check every ...

In all the fields of lighting design Rock & Roll concert lighting is the one area where the lighting designer becomes a performance artist. In many ways the lighting designer taking his place behind the lighting board is doing the same thing and experiencing many of the same feelings as the musicians. At its finest the changes of lighting follow ...

Artificial Lighting is a key part of our daily life, a key component of our environment that has in the last century and a half extended our living time from between dawn and dusk to a potential 24 hours in every day. It has also permitted the construction of increasingly dense work places, no longer governed by the requirement for large areas of glazing to bring daylight to the work place. The proliferation of artificial ...

Proceedings of workshop help at Lightfare 2005

It is very rare for a new technology to arrive and become established in light sources, once every twenty years or so we see a real and viable advance, and in the first years of this century it looks to be LEDs. These devices have been around since the nineteen sixties and we are all familiar with them as indicators on domestic technology. Riding on the wave of the silicone revolution they are very rapidly heading for ...