Hotel = Big Screen

Post by **bart** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:49

We were commissioned by our friends from LUST to help turn a hotel into a video screen. We are placing a DMX controlled moving head in front of the window of 49 rooms to create a 7x7 'pixel' screen. Edwin wrote some custom software that analyses the colours of a 7x7 pixel flash movie and then sends DMX signals to each light to make them chance colour. Loads of fun to make and we just can't wait to see it in action. The installation is part of the TodaysArt festival (we also made the CMS for this website) and it is running from 20:00 to 01:00 this friday and saturday on the Mercure hotel (Spui plein) in The Hague.

Here is a video of the hotel:
www.resolume.com/projects/todaysart

Danger · Post by **Danger** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:00

hope the will be a movie of that

pifco · Post by **pifco** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 13:34

but I still want to see it.
movie?
stills?

VjSky · Post by **VjSky** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 13:39

now, that rocks

What do u think about implementing basic dmx support into resolume. just some fings for blackout an triggering several stored programs.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 15:41

VjSky: that would be a cool idea

VjSky · Post by **VjSky** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 21:33

and maby some support for dmx via paralell (so we can build a dmx controoler for small $ )

VJzoo · Post by **VJzoo** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 04:03

cant wait to see some images

Danger · Post by **Danger** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:29

edwin and bart... there is any photos or movies ?!

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 15:58

sounds a little like blinkenlights http://www.blinkenlights.de/
and subsiqent Arcade in paris http://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/index.en.html
i have always wanted to have a massive dace party in front of a building turned into a screen,

Post by **edwin** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:31

Hi Jim,
yes it does ressemble the blinkenlights projects. They even have a piece of software where people can make their own animations with.
We used flash as an interface, so you create your flash animation, we read it's pixel values and control the lamps.
The difference with our project was is that we could actually use colored lamps (CMY) to create any color we want. And that we had the possibility to TIlt and Pan the lamps as well. Wich gave it a a really nice effect.
Anyway we hope we can get some pictures and video on our site as soon as possible..

Cheers
Edwin

Hotel = Big Screen

Hotel = Big Screen

I live so far from the hague

cool