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ZEN GUIDE v4
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ZEN Terminology
HSL Colour model
ZEN makes extensive use of the
HSL
colour model to provide easy access to a wide
range of attractive colours and effects. This model specifies colour using three
components familiar to artists:
Hue
,
Saturation
and intensity
Level
.
Whenever ‘colour’ is mentioned in this guide, it should always be thought of as being
a particular combination of various levels of
hue, saturation and level resulting in one
of the two million colours that ICELED light sources can produce – including pastel
shades, white and even black. The following diagrams should make the role of each
component easy to recognise:
Hue
adjusting the value of
hue shifts the colour along the visible spectrum e.g. from
magenta to blue.
0%
100%
Saturation
for any given
hue (e.g. blue in the example below) increasing the
amount of
saturation produces a purer hue – or more vivid colour.
0%
100%
Level
for any given combination of
hue & saturation (e.g. pale blue in the example
below) increasing Level boosts the overall amount of light produced.
0%
100%
In the above examples, the full control range is arbitrarily depicted as spanning from
0% to 100%. This represents the lower and upper limits of the remote control range
during colour editing operations.
Home Colours
In order to establish a particular lighting theme for
each program, all zones may be assigned individual
‘home’ colours in
HSL
format. Home colours
provide a starting point for the various effects and
are set up in
Program Edit
mode. Each ZEN
controller holds a total of 44 home colours.
ZEN Operating Modes
Standby
– ready for switch-on with remote control
Program Play
– Zones lit according to program
Demonstration
– programs played at random
Program Edit
– home colour and option definition
NOTE –
Levels should normally be
kept at maximum except for when
deliberately dimming-down certain
zones or making them completely
dark.
Lower
Saturation settings result in
brighter, whiter, colours. However,
some effects like the sweep function
will be unable to influence colours
with very low saturation. To adjust
the
Hue of such colours, first
increase the saturation so the hue
can be seen.