Illumination obscurement device

Shuttered gobo device, comprising:

• a light source;
• a control circuit, producing a control signal indicative of a desired gobo shape;
• a rectangular controllable reflector, receiving said control signal, and reflecting a desired light part indicated by said control signal in a first direction and reflecting an outer undesired light part in another direction;
• and
• a controllable light blocking element, selectively blocking at least a portion of a beam including said desired light part, said controllable light element controllable between an entirely open state in which a rectangular shape of said rectangular controllable reflector is transmitted, and a blocking state, in which only part of said rectangular shape of said rectangular controllable reflector is transmitted, said only part having a round truncated outer shape.

An illumination device comprising:

• a light source producing a light beam;
• an array of controllable reflectors which are adjustable in response to control signals to selectively change some aspect of reflection of said light beam, said array having an overall controllable shape which is a non-circular, said array producing a shaped intermediate light beam which is shaped into a desired gobo shape with an outer shape defined by said control signal;
• and
• an illumination output element producing an output light beam, said illumination output element positioned so that at least a portion of said shaped intermediate light beam strikes said illumination output element, where said illumination output element is an array of cells which reflect light only of a certain brightness or greater.