InPark Magazine: Production Technology LLC (Protec), the largest live events production company in the Middle East, put d3 Technologies’ 4x4pro media servers to work on the Hamdan bin Mohammed Programme for Smart Government awards (HbMPSG) at the World Trade Centre Arena in Dubai. Protec chose d3 media servers with CAST BlackTrax realtime motion tracking to deliver the complex projection mapping element of the event.
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I have read about some of the rock tours that have done a little bit of live projection mapping of clothing onto people, but the only way that was used was to track the position of the clothing onto the actors, not the live map to 3D solids in the space. The two things that I found most impressive here was the extent to which the pre-rendering was done in collaboration with the automation for the show. The second, and I think more impressive thing, is the live mapping and rendering of previously flat content onto angled and curved surfaces. In a way I can image that it would be easier to create content this way. All of your content could be flat and merely exist in a flattened projection of the surface, and then rendered after the fact onto whatever the real space calls for. After some computational courses, I think I have a better idea of the kind of processing that it takes to do live rendering for this kind of show, and that d3 box and the CAST software must be impressive.
Wow this is so cool! Projection mapping is can be very complicated, but when it is done right it looks amazing. Not only were the shapes very complicated that they were projecting on, but they also moved. I think the BlackTrax markers are so interesting because it does the work of connecting the moving physical object to the mapping points in the virtual world. That insures that the perfect orientation of pixels is always on the surface it was programmed to be on. I think it is very interesting that there is such advanced technology to be able to projection map on 3D surfaces. It is very helpful to be able to import the 3D model into the computer instead of trying to map on the actual surface because then you cannot do any work if you do not have the set piece. I am sure that this project took a lot of time but was greatly expedited because of the d3 system.
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