Lighting Design — As Reviewed by Industry Media
Las Vegas Conference Center, October 18-20, 2002
LDI 2002: THE ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY SHOW
LIVE DESIGN, LDI Report
LDI 2002 Award Winner
Product of the Year Award
Lighting Tools and Software
As an industry we have embraced the computer as a tool to make our work easier – as a way to integrate our plots; our paperwork; and our visualization of the finished product. People can be passionate about in their loyalty to the platform they prefer to draft on. Outside of our industry, AutoCAD has emerged as a defacto development & exchange standard. For adding the powerful 3D rendering tools of Viz 4 and Lightscape and credibility of IES standard photometrics to entertainment designer’s toolboxes – and making them user friendly enough to use without three new textbooks – we recognize Design and Drafting’s LD Assistant Ac with VIZlink.
Publications
This journal documents our foundational development within the professional lighting design industry. Preserving the early ideas, architectures, and experiments of a premier system in its domain, this archive serves as a vital reference for understanding how our current approaches emerged and how our software philosophy has matured over time.