store the intent, let the brain choreograph
a lighting desk stores cues. this stores what the rig is and what it can do: where every fixture hangs in real space, what each optic can reach, how the music is divided. with that truth in one place an ai can compose a look, drive it to the rig, look at the result through capture or unreal, and refine. the loop closes. nobody else ships the loop.
one controller on every byte
one controller owns every dmx byte, the patch truth, failover and safety. capture and unreal are the eyes: a live link for previz plus renders, and a full per-fixture patch so the engine can run without a cap. touchdesigner feeds generative content and audio-reactive intent over a permanent contract. the ai authors whole shows behind a deterministic validation gate, so nothing unsafe reaches the wire. the production paper, from schedules to rfps to tech packs, generates from the same measured truth.
- the capture 2026 connection: a unified output engine and beat-locked effects
- the first live unreal light on the eighteenth of july
- a fixture library of one hundred and twenty measured instruments
- xr: volumetric shadow on every beam, the room shell, bloom, driveable framing shutters, both eyes in vr
- the keys engine reads the drawing, not a list
- the channel-set road with one hundred and one golden cases
- haze in both eyes, no fixture idle
- the show video, live cameras and the bench
the design it drove
the lighting concept, the stage in its third pass, the view from the floor · complexcon 2026
a rebuild in ten days, then a season
the origin was a small server and a landing page in april. the real build started in july: five hundred and forty commits in ten days to make the capture connection, then the rig ingest, the plot stabilising through thirty-two versions, the fixture library, the vr eyes in august, the one-instrument plan in september. the first of october was the designed show, every optic reaching the rig as its own byte.
it is two:am's own product. the plots for the show were still drawn by hand with the lighting designer; the instrument watched, learned the rig, and will draw the next one.