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Painting with Light creates projection art at Bokrijk

Painting with Light creates projection art at Bokrijk
Painting with Light creates projection art at Bokrijk

Genk, Belgium based Painting with Light has created a 3D mapped projection artwork for the Hangar 58 event space at Bokrijk in Limburg, one of the region’s most important historical landmarks and a popular open air museum. The permanently installed show was the brainchild of Hanger 58’s owner Wim Grommers, who approached Painting with Light’s Luc Peumans to create storyboards, video artwork and a library of standard content to be made available to various clients renting the space, with custom material available on request.

 

The idea is that guests can view the show through the large glass walls of the Hanger 58 in the winter and enjoy the large format show standing outside in the summer evenings. When running, the projection images measure approximately 40 metres long and 20 metres tall. They cover a series of different shaped buildings set at 90 degrees to one another in one of the historical villages replicated at Bokrijk.

 

Painting with Light undertook a 3D scan of the building facades before creating the multi-million pixel ‘map’ and then Peumans and his team, including Bart Tauwenberg from New Solid, started work on the content. The shows, lasting between 5 and 10 minutes, match the lines of the buildings. “Having the two separate surfaces offers great possibilities to split the images and tell the story with contrasting and complimentary images,” explains Peumans.

 

Peumans specified a D3 4x2 pro media server which stores and runs the content, mapping it to the buildings. He chose D3 for its mapping capabilities and also because they could take advantage of its inbuilt 3d visualizer to present an accurate replication of the proposed finished product for sign off by the client. Peumans commissioned Jo Pauly and Michel Stroobants from Visual Solutions to complete the D3 media server programming and projector alignment.

 

The projections are fed by two Digital Projection (DP) Titan Quartz 20K machines which were delivered by FACE (Foundation for Audio-Visual Commerce Engineering) who are based in Boom, Belgium, and a D3 reseller for Benelux. Both projectors are located inside Hangar 58, one pointing directly at one set of building surfaces and the other firing across at a 45 degree angle.

 

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Painting with Light creates projection art at BokrijkPainting with Light creates projection art at Bokrijk

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