Phantom Abstract Attributes
Natural Language Control's ability to provide additional attribute controls the
fixture manufacturer didn't allow for makes controlling some types of lights more
convenient. An ideal example of this is RGB LED fixtures. Traditionally, the only
controls the users can adjust are Red, Green and Blue. Distinctly absent is an
Intensity attribute. The undesirable side effect of this is that if you pull down the
Grand Master, the LEDs intensities remain unchanged. To blackout the fixtures,
you have to adjust three parameters rather than one. This becomes inconvenient
when you just want to lower the lights' level or take them out in one cue only and
restore them in the next. You must look up the RGB values from the preceding
cue to restore them.
Natural Language Control adds a phantom attribute to RGB lights. This intensity
attribute does not appear any different from that of any other lights, but it does
control the overall brightness of the LED without affecting its Hue. Another
benefit of having this attribute is that if you ever do replace an RGB fixture with
another, more traditional type of fixture, the Fade Up/ Fade Down dynamics of
the light are already in the cues.
Another attribute that is gaining more and more significance, especially in
architectural applications is the color of white. As we know, white is made up of all
the colors in the rainbow, but if one is more dominant than the others, it can tint
the white towards one end of the spectrum or another. Using a Phantom Abstract
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