Orri Petursson of Speirs and Major Associates says: "The media screen is 40m long x 3m high and is made up of 9,500 RGB LED nodes spanning the entire length of an atrium. The obvious way to deliver and manage the content for this LED installation was to use a media server, however, due to the unusual aspect ratio of the screen the content needed to be heavily manipulated to make it legible on the letterbox-shaped screen we had designed.
Pharos also hit upon a key issue, namely the need for individual pixel control, but at the time their LPC X was not available nor did other existing DMX control systems lend themselves to the application of handling 28,000 control channels. As luck would have it there was a window of opportunity to revisit the control system specification by which time the LPC X had been launched."
The Pharos LPC X offers capacities of up to 200 DMX universes from a single solid-state unit, also supporting DMX-over-Ethernet standards such as Pathway, ArtNetII, ETCNet2 and Streaming ACN as well as DVI and Firewire DV outputs for integrating with arrays of fixtures that require video-based control.
(Jim Evans)
