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Medialon takes center stage at the
innovative Lake of Dreams attraction at the new Wynn Las
Vegas hotel where it coordinates separate video,
mechanical, lighting and audio subsystems. Furnished,
installed and programmed by Scharff Weisberg, Medialon
show control enables video projection, robotics,
lighting and sound to be combined in unique musical
interpretations.
The Wynn Las Vegas Lake of Dreams raises the bar for
outdoor spectacle design. Visible from the hotel’s
public area, the Lake of Dreams consists of a lake
backed by a man-made mountain planted with hundreds of
mature trees. Preprogrammed shows of three- to
four-minute songs are choreographed in this landscape
accompanied by video content and supported by lighting
and audio. Components of the shows include a 24-foot
head that rises from the depths of the lake, a 45-foot
tall waterfall spilling down the mountain which doubles
as a projection surface and a 27-foot disk that rises
above the waterfall.
The main show is run by a single operator from the
Medialon show-control system using a Scharff
Weisberg-developed communications protocol based on UDP
standard communications protocol over ethernet.
The video specification features an uncompressed HD/2K
video playback system based around a Macintosh dual
2.5gH PowerMac G5 with top-of-the-line NVIDIA GForce
6800 Ultra video card. A Mac xServe RAID disk array
with 5.6 TB of storage supports the needed bandwidth.
Special-purpose display software plays back, via Apple's
QuickTime, the uncompressed frames at 30 fps
synchronously across three projectors: Barco XLM H25s on
the waterfall and disk and a Barco ELM R18 on the head.
Additional Barco projectors for the waterfall and disk
are converged to enhance luminance. |
