{"id":849,"date":"2018-05-01T20:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2019-03-03T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:54:01","slug":"light-city-2018-what-lies-beneath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Light City 2018 &#8211; What Lies Beneath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?attachment_id=852\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/title-drone-1024x509.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/title-drone-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/title-drone-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/title-drone-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/title-drone.png 1783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In March we teased of our massive light art project entitled What Lies Beneath. It was all consuming in both time and space.&nbsp; Now that we&#8217;re on the other side looking back at it, it seemed to go smoothly, but it took everything we had to pull it off.&nbsp; Here is a look back on What Lies Beneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motivated by the values of Formstone Castle, we brought together a group of artists and pushed them out of their comfort zone to try new things with the skills we knew they could develop.&nbsp; Justin Duvall brought his strengths as an an animator of strange creatures, Kate Haberer brought in her skills as an illustrator and Andrew Dixon brought in his skills as a graphic designer.&nbsp; Each of them created a short clip, not fulling knowing what it would look like on a first of it&#8217;s kind display.&nbsp; For backup, I filmed some clips at the aquarium to flesh it all out.&nbsp; Last but not least, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/adamtrush\">Adam T. Rush<\/a> returned to a Formstone Castle project creating a score tying it all together.&nbsp; Here is the result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WLB Drone Compilation\" width=\"529\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpvqx_g43W0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now what&#8217;s behind this magic?&nbsp; I&#8217;ll try to break down the 6 months of work and try to explain it for those that want to see what lies beneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the ground up this was designed to be modular.&nbsp; Each section is 10 feet wide and 37 feet long.&nbsp; Each module has it&#8217;s own power supply, controller and ethernet switch.&nbsp; Plug it into 120v-240v power and into it&#8217;s neighbor for signal.  We built 14 modules, but for safety reasons, we only installed 12 for Light City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3542-e1551643990761-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3542-e1551643990761-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3542-e1551643990761-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>1500 Watts (24v) with 8 channel LED control over Ethernet.  We had 12 of these installed.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep it all dry, all the LED strips are run through 1&#8243; vinyl tubing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fish-waterlevel-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fish-waterlevel-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fish-waterlevel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fish-waterlevel-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we could only supply power from one end and had to send that power from shore, the power wires were up to 20&#8242; long + 37&#8242; if you count the LED strips.  For this reason our LED strips are custom 24v with a thicker PCB foil.   For WS2811 LEDs, our 24v requirement meant each pixel contained 6 LEDs.  This worked out in our favor.  Each 10 ft module contained 16 LED strips making the length of our pixels and the spacing between our strips the same.  1:1 made mapping much easier for our animators.   Here are some spicy facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>192 LED strips (+ spares) @ 11 meters each<\/li><li>2.1km of LED strips<\/li><li>330 LEDs per strip<\/li><li>63,360 LEDs<\/li><li>192 x 55 pixels<\/li><li>1500 watts x 12 = 18,000 watts of power<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wlb-pano-1024x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wlb-pano-1024x362.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wlb-pano-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wlb-pano-768x272.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Lies Beneath - Credits\" width=\"529\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uUBNGJuwvtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> <br>Special thanks to all our friends who helped us to pull this off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March we teased of our massive light art project entitled What Lies Beneath. 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