LightingDesignSource
LightingDesignSource is a resource for lighting design students at the University of Virginia. Some resources, such as the lighting glossary and list of bibliographical sources may be generally useful to all students in lighting. Other information may be more specific to course work within the graduate and undergraduate lighting curricula, or individual ongoing research projects. Internet visitors are invited to make use of any information accessible from this site. If you are browsing from outside the University you may encounter access restrictions to certain information. Access is usually only blocked to documents referencing private material or objects for which copyright issues have not been resolved. Please see copyright information page

Available Resources:

Lighting TechNotes: Random notes about cue writing and other stuff.

Lighting Unit Specifications: an indexed searchable database of lighting instrumentation and photometric and technical data useful to the lighting designer and electrician. Currently the database is limited to equipment in the inventory at the University of Virginia.

Stage Lighting CAD Symbols: Several libraries of CAD symbols useful for creating light plots. Files are currently provided in DXF file format only.

Bibliography of Lighting Resources: An accumulation of resources on a variety of lighting subjects including stage lighting, film/television lighting, and concert lighting. The bibliography is indexed by author and includes subject headings for browser searches.

Glossary of performance lighting terms: Glossary of common lighting terms.

Quotes: A list of quotes from all disciplines about light, darkness, art, vision, and sight.

Web Lighting Resources: This is a general list of over 600 lighting resources on the web. Also see the Bibliography of Lighting Resources for links to electronic works on some specific subjects or Rock n Roll Lighting Links on the USEM 170-12 site


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