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Sign Builder Illustrated // June 2013
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YESCO’s team created an elaborate presentation that included schedules, pricing, logistics, and a full-blown animation of the completed sign design. The presentation won MGM over, and after some price negotiations, work began on the sign. One of the first steps was to conduct a full site survey. “We drove up and down the Strip at every angle to determine the optimum height,” says Gietzen, who adds that YESCO also traveled off the Strip to check out viewing angles from other prime locations like McCarren International Airport and Tropicana Avenue. YESCO chose to place the sign at the front of CityCenter. The decision to make it such an impressive height was influenced by the surroundings. “It sits in amongst some very significant towers,” says Juleen, “and it was sized to fit within that environment.” Due to the large size of the display, YESCO was able to choose a lower pixel pitch. In total, about 11,000 square feet of 25mm LEDs covers each side of the sign. “What happens with really large LED displays is, when you get the pixel density at that size, you actually have the ability to go to a lower resolution,” says Juleen. “So it appears to be higher resolution, but that’s because we have such a large matrix.” As for brightness, the YESCO LED display system monitors ambient light levels real time (24/7) and automatically provides the required brightness or dimming adjustment to meet the environment. “All light level parameters (dimmest to brightest) are preset in the system during initial testing and commissioning,” says Juleen. YESCO worked for about four months to perfect the design, with an additional six months spent on figuring out engineering details. Throughout the roughly ten-month period, design and engineering frequently worked together to revise plans and make adjustments. “There was a lot of very high-level modeling that had to happen on the computers before we were comfortable building it,” says Juleen. One of the elements that needed some adjusting was the Aria logo, which features twenty-six-foot-tall letters at the top of the pylon.YESCO made some minor changes to the logo so that the letters were legible on the large scale required for the sign. They also placed a smallerscale Aria logo with eight-foot-six-inchsignshop.com