The massive LED array, showing custom video content created by Largent's company, Magic Monkey, is now being used to announce the launch of Toyota's hybrid-car, Prius, in Europe. The system runs nightly from 7pm to 7am CET until 12 April, and can be seen via the Internet on a web-cam at Toyota's official webpage (address below).
Belgian production rental company Can Do purchased and installed the brand new system. The temporary installation utilizes 608 Pro-V8 8" RGB LED fixtures, 38 wide by 16 high, giving a 2,000sq.m, 70m x 28m, low-resolution video array. Two fixtures are placed in opposite diagonal corners of 304 windows (with no interruption of regular office activity). It should be noted that one ColourPix DLP 2200 controller will run up to 4,000 fixtures, so the system could be up to six times as big! Also, higher resolution can be achieved by positioning the fixtures closer together. This array is configured in a rectangle, but any shape or shapes are easily configured and patched using the ColourPix custom software. ColourPix fixtures will display video from any video source. The fixtures are 120/220 volts and control wiring is a simple daisy-chain, using standard DMX cable with no individual addressing required. Mpegs of the Toyota installation, plus other ColourPix installations, can be seen at the TMB website, given below:
(Lee Baldock)
