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5. Shapes  - Page 59

 

 

 

 

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shapes which are running.  
The Pearl, in common with other Avolites consoles, has a shape 

generator (sometimes known as an Effects Generator on other 

consoles). This allows you to quickly create exciting light shows using 

lots of movement and changes, with the minimum of programming. 
A shape is simply a sequence 

of values which can be applied 

to any attribute of a fixture. A 

circle shape, for example, 

applied to the pan and tilt 

attributes, would cause the 

fixture to move its beam 

around in a circular pattern. 

You can set the centre point 

of the circle, the size of the 

circle and the speed of the 

circle movement. 
In addition to position shapes, there are a large number of other 

shapes available in the Pearl. The shapes are defined for a particular 

attribute such as colour, dimmer, focus and so on. Some shapes will 

not work with some fixtures; focus shapes, for example, can produce 

nice “focus pull” effects on fixtures which have DMX focusing, but will 

do nothing on fixtures which don’t have focusing. 
A further category of shapes is the Block Shape. This type of shape 

blocks out other shapes, preventing them from running. For example, 

if some fixtures are running a Circle shape, and then a playback is 

fired which has a Block Pan/Tilt shape on some of the fixtures, those 

fixtures will stop running the circle shape. This can be very useful to 

modify playbacks at showtime when used with the playback priority 

feature (see section 6.7.5 on page 76). 
When you use a shape with more than one fixture, you can choose to 

either apply the shape identically to all the fixtures, or offset them so 

that the shape runs along the fixtures creating “wave” or “ballyhoo” 

type effects. This is called the Phase of the shape.