Light it Up

What you Need to Know about LEDs

by Boaz Rubin | Published in April 2007 Focus on Production

LEDs are becoming an increasingly popular type of lighting, showing up in events, nightclubs such as Hush in Houston (pictured above) and theaters, as well as in hospitality and architectural applications.

Conceptualized by Greg Christy and Nathan Jones of Irvine, Calif.-based Brite Ideas, this lighting employed intelligent LED lighting from Color Kinetics.

Approximately 1,300 Color Kinetics iColor Cove MX Powercore units became individually controllable, 1-foot “pixels” in this Target Interactive Breezeway, which connects the Rockefeller Center’s observation decks.

International Laser and Event Productions used Color Kinetics’ ColorBlast LED fixtures to light this room.

A controller allowed the company to program anything from an instant change to a slow, almost unnoticeable fade from one color to another.

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In the last few years, LED event lightin

About the author: Boaz Rubin

Boaz Rubin is a freelance writer based in Richmond, Va.

Contact: rubinb@vcu.edu

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