Christie, the global visual and audio technology company, has provided a range of integrated solutions to the recently reopened Chico Albuquerque Museum of Image and Sound of Ceará, including projectors, media servers, and Christie Mystique.
The technology has been used to help create an immersive room for multimedia installations at the museum in Fortaleza, Brazil. The Museum of Image and Sound of Ceará (MIS-CE) was established to preserve, disseminate, and conduct research on the audio-visual heritage of the state of Ceará, with a focus on culture, anthropology, history, and popular customs. The museum’s collection totals about 200,000 pieces, including images captured on cameras, films, videos, and posters.
Seal Telecom provided the infrastructure network, IT resources, and audio and video solutions for the project to modernise the museum. To define, install, and integrate the Christie solutions in the museum, including 12 1DLP projectors, Christie Pandoras Box show control solutions, Christie Widget Designer software, and Christie Mystique, a camera-based alignment and recalibration solution for multi-projector arrays, Seal Telecom hired ALCom Engenharia, a Christie LATAM Authorized Service Partner.
Projection solution with more than 10 million pixels
The renovated museum now features an immersive space for multimedia works. This uses eight Christie DWU1075-GS projectors that are integrated into the room’s four walls and work in pairs. Moreover, the floor is illuminated by a combination of two Christie D20WU-HS projectors. The result is projection on the walls and floor, in parallelepiped format measuring 14.16 metres (46 feet) wide, 15.5 metres (50 feet) long, and 5.7 metres (19 feet) high, with a total resolution of 11,168,928 pixels.
The projection is controlled by Pandora’s Box, which guarantees that the content fills the room consistently and gives the impression of total immersion. The projection on the four walls is controlled by a Pandora’s Box Server, while the floor is handled by a different server. Christie Mystique is also used to fast align the projection on the walls.
“Pandoras Box is a powerful system for managing and running visuals. It is proving essential for the museum,” says Adriano Luiz da Cunha, an electronic engineer from ALCom.
“Thanks to this system, in the immersive room we can run the projection with a vast number of pixels. It allows us to compose a complete image from various content archives, without the slightest dip in performance. Apart from that, it also allows us to generate content separately for each individual screen, which makes the rendering process in content creation so much easier.”
External projections draw in passers-by
Two Christie D20WU-HS projectors with a Pandoras Box Server are also used to project onto the outside of the museum. The surface, which measures 35.15 metres (115 feet) wide by 11.39 metres (37 feet) high, has a total resolution of 3336 x 1080 (3,602,880 pixels).
The projectors are temporarily mounted on mobile elevated platforms. used for special events, and then aligned. According to Luiz da Cunha, Christie Mystique is crucial for the feasibility and agility in configuring the projection on the facade for events. It saves many hours of tedious work aligning and calibrating the multi-projection system.
He also says that the Christie projectors are an ideal choice for this project: “These laser projectors don’t require lamp changes, which would have been very difficult in the immersive room of the museum because that would call for constant realignment every time they needed to change a bulb.
“In addition, and despite their high brightness, they are compact and lightweight, which makes them easier to install and position among the other elements on the ceiling of the immersive room. The wide lens shift of the projectors was also crucial in this project.”
Clayton Brito, director of Christie’s Enterprise division in Latin America, adds: “We are delighted with this project. It is the perfect demonstration of how Christie solutions can be used together to create high-impact visual experiences in museums. I would like to congratulate our partners Seal Telecom and ALCom Engenharia, and express our gratitude to the museum, for placing its trust in Christie solutions.”
Christie’s high-performance 3DLP and 1DLP laser projectors are also being used by “Jiuge-Shangui”, a new nighttime tourist attraction in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China.
