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World Lighting Fair Exhibit

Tokyo, Japan

In a remarkable showcase of the capabilities of intelligent LED lighting, this colorfully illuminated 30 by 20 foot (9 by 6 meter) exhibit drew big crowds at World Lighting Fair in Tokyo.

At the heart of the exhibit was a 360 square foot (33 square meter) space that applied an eye-catching combination of Color Kinetics’ advanced products and control technologies. A total of 113 iColor® Tile FX units lined the exhibits walls, forming a checkerboard-like canvas upon which morphing colors, patterns, and animations were displayed. Each two by two foot unit incorporates 144 individually controllable tri-color LED nodes, enabling intricately designed effects across the entire multi-unit display, and spanning an extraordinary 16,272 nodes. If not for the use of Color Kinetics’ Ethernet-based authoring and control system, Light System Manager, this would have required 113 DMX universes.

In another demonstration of sophisticated control, 107 randomly dispersed strands of iColor® Flex SL lit the exhibit’s transparent floor from below. Each strand is comprised of 50 individually controllable tri-color LED nodes that collectively produce a number of color changing sequences in varying speeds.

These grand-scale lighting effects were programmed and triggered by Light System Manager, which made it possible to drive the individual pinpoint-sized LED nodes with ease, thus achieving elaborate effects across the many thousands of color changing nodes. In addition, a sequence of animations was designed in Macromedia Flash and imported to Light System Composer to run on the iColor Tile FX display. Light System Engine was used to store and play the customized light shows for both the iColor Tile FX and iColor Flex SL displays.

In an exhibit hall filled with lights on display, the visual impact of highly controllable LED systems makes the biggest statement.