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St Regis Tower Interactive Model

Nathan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:06:01 +0000

Urban Visuals created another interactive model control system for the St. Regis development in Las Vegas. The 50 story high rise condo will be located between the Palazzo and the Venetian hotel on the Vegas Strip, and the preview sales centre is in one of the penthouse suites of the Palazzo hotel, overlooking the building site, as well as much of Las Vegas.

The control system uses an Arduino control board and two custom built 256 channel LED control boxes. The Flash based touch interface (built by Lightroom), communicates with a Processing application which sends commands to the ardiuno and the LED controllers.

The fantastic model was built by The Model Shop in Vancouver, and included individual LEDs for each of it’s 422 suites. Each suite can be individually illuminated, as well as each floor, groups of several floors and random suite illumination (as shown). Light animations also light the entire building suite by suite or floor by floor.

The touch screen with the model in the reflection.

Nathan working on the model.

Bespoke lighting control

konstantinos — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:23:12 +0000

For each of our installations we create a custom control interface for the venue. This allows for a more user friendly and site specific approach, something that is created specifically for the people that use the system. With this approach the possibilities with respect to what the interface can be are endless. Sometimes are more raw literal interface is more practical, where the light patterns, colour and animation are clearly shown (above left) or an interface that refers to the physical design elements where the lights are imbedded (above right).

Light embedded bar top

konstantinos — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:24:34 +0000

For the Shine Nightclub redesign we created an animated bar top that appears to be filled with flickering candles. This application was especially challenging as we had to control 200 lights able to display 16 million different colours in an infinite amount of patterns. In its completed form the glowing wood bar-top can display a multitude of different animations that give it an surreal appearance that is hard to describe so please watch the clip.

light_embedded_bar_clip

Animated Wall Panels

konstantinos — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:04:43 +0000

For the Century house re-design we worked with the interior designers to integrate LED lighting into portions of the interior. Our favorite part was the creation ‘animated fabric’ wall panels, where we brought the panels to life by illumination and animation. The result was a wall of animated dots that would randomly appear within the pattern of the fabric, the animated dots can appear in any colour and respond to sound or user input via a touch screen across the room.