www.limelightwired.com: Earlier this year, we invited lighting designers to get creative and submit ideas as part of the X-Laser LD Challenge. LDs sent in their favorite moving light effects, challenging us to recreate them using lasers; first to prove it could be done, and second to show just how much Mercury can deliver.
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Lasers are so cool! What an interesting and fun way to push innovation and creativity through a playful design challenge. Lasers scientifically and creatively are so interesting! are these beautiful rays of lights that can also be extremely dangerous at the same time, like most things in life I suppose. I wonder if after LED lasers be where the lighting industry is headed next. I don't know enough about the current industry trends, but it would be interesting for sure. After all if they're able to create all of these School effects using layers, maybe those are all that's needed. I wonder how lasers would compare to the warm light of traditional fixtures, something even LEDs struggle to replicate. As cool as lasers are, I wonder how this balances with the safety concerns of lasers. After all it would be really bad if lasers accidentally blinded audience members. I'm certainly not the shock we're looking for.
Lasers are so cool I really wish they were more accessible to a common theater market then they currently are. I understand why they are as expensive as they are because of how new they are and the training someone has to have to be able to utilize them in a production safely without blinding anyone. All sensible logic aside they are still so cool and I'd love to get to use them someday. I really like this challenge though, the idea to replicate a very expensive tool with more commonly accessible tools. Arguably this still doesn't make sense because moving lights are still very expensive, they are just less expensive compared to lasers but still I really like the sentiment. I've always thought that some of the best artwork people can create comes from a lack of resources and personal ingenuity, I think this challenge most likely showed that.
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