Well everything was in place two days before the press arrived for the official press preview. Then somehow two of the projectors got messed up when their autosync malfunctioned. The guys from SPL and Larry from AV took a couple hours to sort it all out. Everything should be good for the press preview today and donor reception tonight.
The projection is a bit splotchy but I think it ended up looking mysterious since the glass is still mostly transparent. The huge letters are legible from a long ways away and make up for most of the dim zones. We also found that if we move the letters faster it appears like the words shimmer. I was told someone from HGA could read the sign from Loring Park when the big letters were on. So far this project seems like its going to be a great place for our announcements.
Here is some documentation with real content in it.
I took some video from the sidewalk, from the crosswalk and from across Hennepin Avenue.
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[…] It seems like we have reached some sort of milestone for our biggest dynamic signage project. The giant projection on Hennepin Ave. is now using information coming out of our database. Unfortunately there is still a little bit of work I have to do every day transporting images because (1) Watchout uses windows machines that we can’t expose to our network because their settings are insecure and (2) we don’t have a VLAN set up yet to securely connect to them. So that means I still move the dynamically generated content back and forth on a physical CD. The good news is that Nate wrote a program that pulls data out of our calendar database and writes 3 big PNG graphics each containing a number of events spaced out evenly. I just have to upload graphics to the right directory on the Watchout server press refresh and it updates. Watchout doesn’t really seem to be built for this since it isn’t mentioned in any of the documentation but it does work. […]
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