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Solutions: Het Scheepvaartsmuseum, Amsterdam
Projections provide the illusion of looking out of the building to the harbour
Installed Video . Elo 19in, 22in and 26in touchscreens . Visual Planet touchfoil . NEC 42in MultiSync LCD displays . LG 55in LCD monitors . Eiki XSP2500, LC-XL200, LC-WUL100 and EIP-HDT20 projectors . projectiondesign F12SX and F22SX projectors . Sanyo PLC-ET30L, PLC-WXU300 and PLC-XU106 projectors . Canon XEED SX80 projectors . Dell 7609WU . BrightSign HD210 looping signage controllers . BrightSign HD1010 interactive signage controllers . SpinetiX HMP100 media players . Medialon Manager V6 Pro Server, V6 Lite Server and Backup Server . Rapenburg Navigator . Dataton Watchout Player V 4.3 . Dataton Watchout Production V4.3 . Dataton Watchout Player V5
Audio . Extron MPA152 and XPA1002 amplifiers . Audac Q4 4-channel 600W amplifiers . Audac DPA74 and DPA154 amplifiers . Ashly NE8250 8-channel 250W amplifiers . Behringer MA400 amplifiers . Panphonics 120 x 20 SoundShower speakers . JBL Control1 Pro speakers . Storz EH02 speakers . Visaton FRS8 and VC4.7 speakers . Seeburg Acoustic A1, A2 and A8 speakers . Richmond Sound Design SoundMan Server . MOTU 24I/O audio interface . Raapu 3d2 and 3d3 MP3 players
Lighting . e:cue Enterprise Server 3HE, Enterprise Server 2HE and Butler MicroServer . e:cue DMX2DALI converter . PLS Split7/RJ45 DMX splitter . PLS Split7/RDM DMX splitter . TTL Flatpack DMX dimmer
configuration to completely surround the audience. The projection is 15m in circumference and 3.4m high. The story takes the audience on different types of ship, ending up in a sea battle. Multichannel audio (12 Seeburg speakers plus two subs) enhance the experience by carrying the sounds of gunfire and other effects. “This room was probably the hardest part of the whole installation,” comments Sierk Janszen, partner and technical director at Rapenburg Plaza. “The walls of the building are not straight, and we were restricted in where we could position the projectors. Also, Watchout requires the same number of pixels in all the overlap areas between
projectors. We had to work around this by using theatrical foil to physically mask off parts of some images.”
via iPhone or iPad, or to manage and monitor the entire installation remotely.
Lighting control Beyond the museum One innovative attraction is ‘Mijn.Expo’, which extends the experience beyond the museum itself. Prior to coming to the museum, visitors can log on to an area of its website and design their own attraction. Then, during their visit, they can call up the results of their work using a sort of giant iPad – an interactive table built especially for the exhibition. The underside of the tabletop is covered with an interactive foil from UK company Visual Planet, and a projector fires up from under the table. Once the results are called up, they are displayed on a Watchoutcontrolled projection. The entire museum is showcontrolled; there is a master control system, and each attraction has its own subsystem. Rapenburg Plaza designed, installed and programmed the show-control network using Medialon software, KissBox interfaces and industrial network hardware and software. “Anything to do with AV had to be Ethernet controllable,” explains Janszen. As well as allowing museum personnel complete control over all lighting and AV equipment, this enables Rapenburg Plaza technicians to do on-site troubleshooting
The company was also partly responsible for the ingenious lighting control system. An open DMX infrastructure was fitted to low-voltage rails in all the museum’s rooms and showcases, providing data to more than 4,000 individually addressable spotlights. This not only applies to all LED fittings in the showcases but also to all tunable-white and RGB spotlights on the ceiling rails. Overall, there is a huge array of technologies and brands in the museum. For instance, there are no fewer than five manufacturers’ projectors across the installation. Janszen explains: “We’re not an AV distributor or dealer, so we can be brand independent. The projectors need to do different things: there are differences in resolution, in what they are showing and the way they’re mounted.” The AV budget for the project – not including show control or lighting – was €800,000. So far, says Janszen, the newly opened museum has proved very popular. The first two weekends (which were, admittedly, both rainy) saw 8,000 visitors through the doors by the middle of the day. “We’ve only heard good stuff about it,” he smiles. IE
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