Client: Ramus / Star Entertainment Group
Location: Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Year: 2016
We were offered the chance to help deliver two iconic artworks: the building facade and the entrance experience.
The facade projection is the result of 17 high-lumen projectors, 3D mapped and masked to the building’s balconies to avoid any light shining into hotel rooms. We integrated a media server with industry-leading projection mapping with CORE so that content could could be uploaded and scheduled without further technical assistance.
The entrance experience called for unique content mapping to make use of over 15,000 individually addressed LED nodes on living palm trees. Rather than resorting to 3D volumetric mapping and content, we saw an opportunity to create a 2D virtual canvas, enabling content creators to intuitively use the installation for far greater aesthetic possibilities. Our bespoke MNM computer vision mapping tool was used to create a pixel-perfect content map in minutes rather than days.
From the main entrance an observer sees an astonishingly legible image across the palm trees, where content appears to move through even the gaps between trees. From other angles the image becomes more abstract.
CORE provides real-time monitoring and alerts across the site, which is especially important for the environmental conditions and health status of the projectors and their enclosures.