Sydney celebrates Christmas with spectacular video projections

St Mary's Cathedral offers a great mapping projection to recreate the meaning that Christmas has for the city of Sydney, while Martin Place attracts visitors from its iconic building, in the form of a flying saucer, that simulates a carousel where images come to life. Two projects in which TDC has participated with its video projection technology.

TDC (Technical Direction Company) has participated in the Sydney Christmas holidays by providing its video projection technology to St Mary's Cathedral and the iconic building located on Martin Place.

In the Cathedral of Santa Maria has turned its façade into a huge stage of 75 meters to make an imaginative representation of Christmas and what it means for the city of Sydney.

To this end,, TDC has created amazing animated images of 17.640.000 pixels using 264.000 lumens of light projected on the façade. To manage Full HD content images, a power of 2 terabytes for content management, 48 processing cores and 144 gigabytes of RAM.

As Michael Hassett comments, managing director of TDC, designers have had to create a special code and electronics so that this entire 'virtually wired' system can be controlled from an iPad device.

“Remote monitoring is something TDC has been perfecting for several years now.. Allows fast scheduling, fixes issues remotely in real time, uses a CCTV camera on site to see what is going on and allows the programming of the different shows and the operation of each of the events that occur each day".

Thanks to TDC management technology, projectors can be turned on or off remotely, even climate control systems can be activated, to turn all equipment on or off.

This is the sixth year that this event has been organized, called Lights of Christmas, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria, a show presented by Payce and whose contents, created by the company AGB Event, revolve around themes such as life and light.

Merry Go Round returns to Martin Place

On the other hand, Merry Go Round show returns one more year to Martín Place, the heart of the city's financial center. An event that has already been held in 2014 at the Commercial Travellers Association Building.

Using TODC Video Projection, this iconic circular building, shaped like a flying saucer is shown as a large canvas where images come to life and imagination becomes the great protagonist.

The creator of this project is the company Ample Projects that transforms the façade into a large carousel that projects the images and causing an effect that seems that the building is spinning and a cast of characters comes into action. A show that shows the possibilities offered by architectural projection.

 

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