Four of the new High End Systems DL.2 digital light intelligent instruments made their public debut at the 2007 Social Book Gala held at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. LD Systems lighting programmers AJ Freysteinson and John Dickson took advantage of the hemispherical ceiling at the Burke Baker Planetarium to unleash the DL.2's controlled by the MA Lighting grandMA lighting console. The non-flat surface presented a challenge but the results speak to the power of the instruments and the talent of the programmers.

View streaming video of the show.

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Scroll down to see still images of the event.

This still from the video linked above was recorded using a wide angle lens shot in 16:9 format. To record the full effect, the camera was placed at the edge of the planetarium and resulted in the odd shape above due to the hemispherical shape of the ceiling. However, from audience seating the image was more normal and filled the viewers' entire field of vision. The image is a composite of four images: two-high and two-wide, all edge-blended.

This image was nearly 40' wide and 10' deep. This shows four DL.2 images side by side and edge-blended to produce one image.

This still shows both the projected image and the beams created in the hazed room.

The LD Systems logo was created in 3D Studiomax and exported as an ActiveX object. The DL.2 graphics engine then mapped MPEG-2 video onto the object that could be rotated, sized, and remapped in real-time by the programmers.

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