When a big company like the OMV hosts employee events, thousands of people gather to be informed, wowed and entertained. Vienna based event agency Erlebnismarketing approached Strukt to create real time generated animations built out of photographs of all attendees. Their pictures were taken on site and just shortly before they had to be displayed. Despite of the challenge to create a workflow to feed the vvvv patch with thousands of photographs within less than half an hour, also the technical set-up was something Strukt has not encountered up to that event. The developed know-how and software patch was then used in two events, first the Farewell-Goodbye Ceremony for Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer, then for the OMV Vienna Summit 2011. |
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Farewell-Goodbye Ceremony for Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer
The first event in March 2011 was equipped with a 84 meter wide screen using 8 projectors to display 15360 (minus some overlap for edge-blending) by 1080 pixels. Strukt used a vvvv-boygroup set-up of 2 rendering PCs and 1 control PC to generate a fluid realtime animation of a particle and picture universe. Additionally, during the first event, guests were able to sign a digital guestbook. Their messages were shown live on the screens and kept also in an analog way.
Ten photographers took pictures of the arriving guests starting one hour before the ceremony.
Shortly before the show started all pictures were collected to be converted and integrated into the real-time universe animation.
The Picture Universe was up and running for the entire lunch event to decorate the 84 meter wide projection area.
Two digital guestbook stations allowed the guests to sign the guestbook in an analogue and digital way at the same time.
The set-up was realized building desks with integrated Wacom tablets and using the Wacom “Ink” Pens that work as normal pen as well as a digital pen.
Vienna Summit 2011
The second event in June 2011 took everything to a higher level. 42 HD projectors were used as tandems (so 2 projectors for every segment of the screen) to fill a 245 meter wide screen. The vvvv-boygroup set-up had to grow adequately and so Strukt used 6 PCs to play back the real time generated photo mosaic and one PC as a control server. With a total width of over 40.000 pixels this definitely set a record in Austria.
Stunning 245 meter in width over 3 walls using a total of 42 projectors (21 tandem projections) brought the Halle D of Reed Messe Vienna to life.
