Intelligent projectors are a special type of lighting equipment used in theatre and concerts, which are used to project a beam of light onto a specific location on the stage. Intelligent projectors, also called moving head projectors, and a unique kind of digital lightingâ?? they have no actual lens, and so the spread of the light beam is always very narrow.

Moving digital luminaires such as these intelligent projectors are very popular with lighting technicians, as the narrow beam of light allows them to define a very small portion of the stage, while leaving the rest of the performance area in darkness. This effect is referred to as a â??godspot effectâ?. They are often combined with special effects such as fog or haze in order to create very atmospheric conditions on the stage.

Intelligent projectors use two reflectors â?? a parabolic reflector for organizing the light into beams that are virtually parallel, and a spherical reflector at the front of the digital lighting, which reflects the light beam onto the parabolic reflector, thus lessening the amount of spill.

This design results in intelligent projectors producing an extremely intense and very narrow light beam, which is neither easily modified or controlled.