Less than a month after PLASA, Artistic Licence had even more new innovations on its stand. The latest product is Visual Patch - a fabulous invention for those using lots of fixtures with plenty of channels per fixture. Combining RDM protocol, a lighting console and a video camera, the system allows you to simply point the camera at the stage and press the Visual Patch button. The console then uses RDM to turn each lamp on, analyzes the position, shape and size of the lamp via the video camera, adds it to the patch and automatically sets the lamp start address, solving that dreadful problem of complex number crunching when patching. Soon it'll be possible to forget the boring numbers bit for good!
