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Architecture Gets Entertaining with G-LEC ArcLine Range
G-LEC is bringing its award winning entertainment technology to the worlds of architecture, branding and themed entertainment. Any surface can be made into a feature - heralding the end of dull walls and dark corners.
G-LEC ArcLine products can be used to create an impressive centre piece in a shopping centre, excite the entrance of a freefall ride, colour the ceiling of a hotel bar, create unique effects on a game show or set a dynamic mood in a casino. With three architecturally suitable products deriving from both the Tube and Frame families, the G-LEC ArcLine range provides architectural solutions for just about any surface.
The ClassicTube and LightTube systems allow designers to freely fix the extremely lightweight yet clear, 1m long tubes onto any surface or framework to create rich, brilliant, colourful effects. Dramatic custom designs, such as pendant lamps, can be created making full use of every tube’s 16 million colour pixels, while all electronics are neatly housed in remote, separate boxes.
The LightTube is simply controlled by DMX512 and is RDM1.2 ready, allowing control by any architectural or entertainment control system. For more complex projects the ClassicTube system provides powerful control of individual pixels at full video speed. With a powerful graphic server and high speed signal transmission control, ClassicTube can mix custom images, pictures, signage or video.
For applications that require more LED power, G-LEC’s PhantomFrame tubes are mounted on an extremely lightweight, practically invisible frame. Each 1 by 1m frame is fixed together securely, allowing huge display surfaces to be created. Images, pictures, messages and video can then be transmitted from a remote graphicserver, with two layers of graphics controlled by DMX512.
The light weight of the PhantomFrame system gives the option of attaching whole units to the side of buildings, as Mercedes Benz chose to do when it celebrated the 100 year anniversary of its Untertürkheim plant near Stuttgart. At a ceremony attended by 300 of Germany’s movers and shakers from the political, business and social worlds, events on stage were displayed on a large G-LEC system attached to the outside of the Mercedes Benz office block. Not only was the frame lightweight enough to be attached to the glass façade, natural light could still enter the building through the frame, so not obscuring the employees’ views.
Each frame supports 16 clear polycarbonate tubes, while each tube houses 16 LED pixels spaced 60mm apart. Any logo, sign or graphic can be digitized and displayed on the ultra bright 5,100mcd RGB pixels, with up to 16 million colours available. The space between the tubes is just air – giving the PhantomFrame not only its transparency, but its light weight, which is only 6kg/m².
PhantomFrame also offers the option of CoverUp, a range of Perspex covers that broaden the designer’s palette of lighting tools. Secured to the corner of each frame, the CoverUp can be mounted at different distances from the front of the frame to create a variety of effects. For example, each CoverUp corner can be fixed to create undulating or curved surfaces. CoverUp will be available with different degrees of transparency allowing smoother or more pixillated light and colour blending. Additionally, the thin metal frame can be painted any colour to subtly blend into the background.
12th April 2005
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