Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Bringing the world of technical theatre to you.
West Side Systems has released an update to its BeamCalc app, adding iPad compatibility and other improvements. The popular iPhone app now fills the expansive iPad display with a detailed graphic view of up to three light sources, and a sidebar list which allows quick selection from a library of over 100 fixture types. Fixtures [...]
West Side Systems has released an upgrade to its Virtual Light Lab software. Virtual Light Lab 2010 adds dozens of models, hundreds of filters, movie recording, chromaticity mapping, and more. Upgrades are available from any prior version. Virtual Light Lab provides a simple system for quickly placing lights around a model, dropping in standard filters [...]
Show Timer is a stopwatch, timer and logging application for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It improves on the built in Stopwatch in a couple of interesting ways. It offers the option of counting down to a specific time and will show you how long is remaining until then. So if you have an event [...]
Need an app to calculate the cost of your power usage? PowerSaver from West Side System might just be the thing you need. PowerSaver will calculate the cost and savings associated with reducing the wattage of your lamps as well as how much you could save if people would only turn the lights off when [...]
West Side Systems has announced the immediate availability of two new iPhone apps for entertainment professionals who deal with time. And really, who doesn’t? Show Timer Show Timer is a multi purpose timer designed for stage and event managers. It provides them with dual timers to count up and down simultaneously, and to automatically record [...]
When you are planning your lighting design, are you ever unsure what angle you are going to need to get that perfect spot from your Source4? Should it be a 10 or 19 degree? How about what height to trim your lighting bars before focus? What you need is the latest in a line of [...]
Have you ever had the need to address dozens of moving head fixtures, scrollers, haze machines or any other DMX device? Have you ever sat down scratching your head trying to figure out the DIP switch settings for your equipment? How about needing to know what the absolute value of your device on universe 3 [...]
