From Comments: Rosco iCue for Projection Tips
I talked a bit last month about my woes trying to use a Rosco iCue “intelligent mirror.” The short version: skip the lighting board and the lighting op / designer, and do what Jamie Jewett suggests here, via comments:
I am also using a hacked I-cue with projection and am quite happy with it -
for folks interested in DMX you might also look into the LANbox products - depending on what product you get you can send it DMX, MIDI, USB, ethernet as well as digital and analog sensor data - it’s pretty sweet - it also comes with a piece of free (download-able) software which functions as a light desk on your laptop…
It also has preprogrammed objects for connecting directly to both the Max/MSP/Jitter world (which I am using) and to Isadora (which I have used and would recommend highly - the learning cure is no where near as steep as with jitter…)
my main issue with the I-cue has to do with the difference between the x and y range and the transation between the ‘Cartesian’ world of my 2d desktop and the quasi 3d/polar world of the I-cue - I am finding moving video in a straight line to be quite a pain in the back side…
but between the I-cue and the Lanbox there has been no issues at all…
Sounds like someone needs to build a patch that translates to the iCue … maybe even via joystick input.
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Jamie Jewett
Hey Peter
the patch is not the hard part - using the LANbox it is all remarkably easy - and yes - I am running my own DMX cable and just bypassing the theater’s lighting system all together - though this is also quite straight forward to control from Max using the LANbox - just one too many hats for now -
I would STRONGLY suggest using a trackball rather than a joystick with this set-up -
I tried the joystick route at first and it proved to be one of the more spastic UI experiences I have ever had -
The track ball works well - I am using it both to pre-set cues and for live manipulating in my performance -
also - because of the digital and analog sensor in ports you can use sensors to control the LANbox as well - for those of use who dream of being total cyborgs…
Come see us if you are in the Providence RI part of the world in two weeks:
http://www.lostwax.org/pages/upcoming.html
best
jamie
October 15, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
Peter Kirn
No, the patching / LANbox arrangement makes sense — I just wondered when you talked about orientation if a patch that did some intelligent translation might make sense.
And, oh yeah, the trackball does sound like a better idea. :) Joysticks I will say depend largely on quality … not that I’d spend the money, but I’ve felt some $300+ joysticks that felt fantastic. They might still be the wrong hardware paradigm, though.
I’ll have to see if I can get up to RI; ever in nyc? (maybe will catch you at the Joyce Soho in March!)
October 15, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
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