I hope they use strong mounting brackets. Imagine coming into work in the morning to find the screen on the pavement...
Looks like a fun project! 'gratz. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:01 PM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > I thought this might be of interest. We won the job a while ago to write the > software to run the Your Name In Lights art installation during the month of > January for the Sydney Festival 2011. We chose WPF as the rendering > framework after the real-time twitter/flickr wall we did for TechEd 2010. > The art installation is described here (anyone can register): > http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2011/Visual-Arts/Your-Name-In-Lights-Registration > We just did UAT with the guys from Sydney Festival and Kaldor Public Art > Projects this afternoon: > http://twitter.com/#!/sydney_festival/status/7666187404054528 > So give you an idea of the "large"/interesting part: > > http://twitpic.com/39yef4 > http://twitpic.com/39xj7o > > Those pictures feature the left 15 metres of the display. The actual display > will be 30 metres wide and approximates 1.8 metres high. It is driven by a > single desktop (+ hot spares) using a XEON based server board. The display > technology is a modular matrix LED panel with an external device that drives > the panels for us. The brightness of the screen is EXTREMELY impressive. > Anyway, the app will be running on the roof of the Australian Museum from > 9th Jan through to the end of Sydney festival ... no pressure checking for > memory leaks. :) Visually, it will go here: http://yfrog.com/5o3zhjj > So, if you measure application size in square metres, this one is pretty > big. :) > This was my second monitor for a while today: http://twitpic.com/39x7m7 ... > vertical res isn't great but still :) > I have a bunch of 1080p footage which I'll put up once I knock over another > couple of jobs at work. > -- > David Connors | [email protected] | www.codify.com > Software Engineer > Codify Pty Ltd > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 > 189 363 > V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact > > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf > > _______________________________________________ ozwpf mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf
