Animating Frankfurt #1

written on Wednesday, 10th September, 2008

Creating images for a media facade. 2km of cabels and a UMTS internet card in a small three bed hotel room in the middle of Frankfurt, Germany.

Yesterday, Daniel, David and me moved all our stuff to Frankfurt, Germany to proceed with a project we began in 2007. A bank in Frankfurt redesigned their front facade and integrated a grid of LEDs into the glass facade.
So now we are here to animate a video for the facade. The tricky thing about this is the arrangement of the pixels. We have a grid of approx.1100 Pixels vertically and only 49 horizontally on a building that is 6 stories high and 250 meters long. So we have 49 high resolution LED lines on the building. For our animations we have to consider this lack in horizontal resolution.
Daniel and me animate the themes while David is in charge of the correct pixel conversion of the animation and all the connection to the servers we need.