This week we got control of the lighting behind the projected signs on our expansion. The screen still looks splotchy but now it is not faded out on top. There is some crazy bounce back that is more noticable when the lights are dimmer. You can see from this movie the light bounces back noticably off the clear glass and again of the frosted glass giving us this rather interesting pattern on the back wall. I think that is something we are going to have to embrace as a quality not an unintended side effect. Also notice we thinner type makes these weird patterns on the mullions. Andrew mentioned the mullions were like a light show on their own.
Certain colors show up better than others due to the tinting on the glass. Looks like yellow and pink show up best but bright bright green looks pretty good too. Blues and photographic images look very weak and muddy (yes that last movie is an image of 1 Groveland projected on the new building).
You can see the type looks better but the weird bouncing we saw on the mullions is visible from the outside and the light from the chadeliers hanging inside interferes with the projectors making a new dead spot in the middle of the image.
wow this looks beautiful! the effect from inside the hall is almost trippy. sweet! what’s a mullion?
Comment by jennifer j — 3/14/2005 @ 4:44 pm
mullions are the posts in between the panes of glass. The white things that the letters bounce off of and around.
Comment by eric — 3/14/2005 @ 4:52 pm
The bounceback into the walker is cool, as you can actually read it from the inside, even if it’s somewhat abstract.
Comment by Brent — 3/14/2005 @ 5:25 pm