Today I had the opportunity to get my hands on some Pixelline 1044, "MASSIVE thanks to Stage Electrics Tynside" which enabled me to work on a patch i had written in vvvv specificaly for Pixelmapping media to these fixtures. The setup is relatively simple if you know your way arround vvvv and have the right gear. I was using my ASUS G1S laptop running Vista through my Enttec USB Pro DMX Dongle, which proved to be a great compact setup although I expect i will upgrade my DMX interface for a multi I/O Ethernet version relatively soon.
The setup was really easy, the hardest thing was navigating through the Pixelline menu's but once all of the fixtures were setup, addressed and given DMX, everything worked perfectly! Here are a few pictures and videos of it in action.
The bouncing blobs, rotating line and text were all, also generated within vvvv too. Mapping video live across these does not look good due to the way the pixel color translates, although not impossible you would need allot of color correction and tweaking as well as being selective about only choosing high contrast and brightly video. The best media to put through something like Pixelline, Colorweb, Shcnick-Schnack is generally brightly colored, contrasting generated media.
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