7 июля в Амстердаме было присуждение наград Международной лазерной ассоциации (ILDA).
Первое место в категории "Концертный перформанс" взяла трехмерная призма для Dark Side of the Moon Tour 2008 от фирмы Lightwave Int.
http://www.laserist.org/awards2009.htm
Подробности из pdf'а:
Laser server programming: George Dodworth (Lightwave); GrandMA programming: Martin Potoczny (Lightwave);
Lighting designer: Marc Brickman;
Original design team: George Dodworth, Martin Potoczny, Marc Brickman, Kelly Sticksel (ETC), Mike Dunn (Firstlight Laser Productions), Chris Nyfield (Hindsight Studios), Rob Mudryk (GCN Technologies), Casey Stack (Stack Technical Services), Steve Jander (Showlasers)
Music: Roger Waters playing various songs from the tour
These video clips were captured during various European stops during the 2008 Dark Side of the Moon World Tour.
The 2008 Tour featured numerous power, control and visual upgrades over the 2007 effect. The intent of the laser sculpture, the iconic prism with entering laser and exiting rainbow, was to recreate the album artwork from "Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon" as originally designed by Strom Thorgerson as a three-dimensional artform.
One of the main goals was to have a dramatic reveal of the prism -- so the structure could not resemble a pyramid until activated. This prevented the use of traditional light sources such as LED or neon. In fact, lasers were more of a means to an end. The effect was never intended to look like a laser effect.
The pyramid itself was sculpted from large up-collimated beams from high-powered RGB direct-diode lasers which followed a series of mirrors to form the prism. Popular belief is that the pyramid was formed by neon, LED or other lighting technology. In fact, the space between the prism legs was empty. Lasers, when activated, filled this space and created the actual prism design in true 3D. The white beam and rainbow were formed by two additional LED systems.
During two important shows, the entire laser sculpture was translated on an overhead trolley system. The most impressive version of this implementation raised the prism from a hidden position behind a massive video wall, which then moved downstage while still rotating and executing all of the programmed effects.
The system was designed for rapid tour deployment. Thus, all the electronics and lasers rode inside the metal housings for the duration of the tour. Highly rugged and reliable solid state technology was essential to this timesaving step, and of course reduced the power budget from many hundreds or thousands of kilowatts to a few thousand watts, while negating the need for any water cooling.
Lasers: Two 34W RGB (white light and rainbow), three 12W RGB (prism-forming lasers).