Motion Mapping transforms the facade of the Palace of Westminster into a dynamic canvas

For this projection in tribute to the nursing service, two Multimedia Servers Hippotizer Amba+ from Green Hippo and three Panasonic equipment have been used, of 30.000 lumens each, installed to 260 meters away.

London's iconic Palace of Westminster, and specifically its façade, recently became a vast projection area, coinciding with International Nurses' Day, in which images of gratitude were shown to the workers of the National Health Service of the United Kingdom (NHS).

For this project, the experts in projection of Motion Mapping deployed two Hippotizer Amba+ media servers Green Hippo (brand that markets in Spain Earpro) to mix and display visual content to ensure it is displayed seamlessly on the building's intricate façade.

Stuart Harris, responsible for Motion Mapping in the project, says he made "good use of the Shape feature of this server to achieve great results. We had only 45 minutes on site to make the projection correctly, including all alignment and mixing with the Parliament framework, and broadcast it live to the media around the world that covered the event. Shape simplified the mixing of images so that they appeared correctly, even from such a long distance, of 260 metre. We even had to do some of this in real time., and the Amba+ handled it with ease.

Other features of these servers, "allowed us to change and modify quickly," Harris explains.. And when a problem arose, like a light on in one of the Windows of Parliament, could create a solution in seconds, which is very useful when the images are about to be broadcast all over the world".

The visual content shown ranged from thank you messages to large Florence Nightingale images., known as the 'founder of modern nursing', coinciding with the two hundred anniversary of his birth.

Installed on the south bank of the Thames, specifically in the parking lot of the Hospital de Santo Tomás, Harris used four powerful projectors Panasonic, of 30.000 lumens each, to create crystal clear images about the ornamental architecture of the building.

"As expected, there was a lot of bureaucracy prior to the realization of the screening event, which included approvals at the highest levels of Parliament, Harris points out.. But we only had one chance to get it on the site itself., that's why I needed a reliable and easy-to-configure server solution, and the Hippotizer provided the right tool to achieve this: are vital systems in the visual arsenal of Motion Mapping".

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