Christie enhances the immersive room of the Ceará Museum

In this Brazilian museum of image and sound, 12 1DLP projectors, Pandoras Box show control solutions, Widget Designer software and Mystique camera-based alignment and recalibration solution from Christie, ideal for multi-projection.

The integrated solutions of Christie, including projectors, media servers and Mystique, have been deployed in the recently reopened Chico Albuquerque Museum of Image and Sound in Ceará (MISS WHAT), located in the city of Fortaleza (Brazil), to create an immersive room for multimedia installations.

This is responsible for preserving, disseminate and investigate the audiovisual memory of the homonymous state, with emphasis on culture, anthropology, history and popular traditions. The cultural space has more than 200.000 pieces in your collection, between photographs, cameras, movies, videos and posters.

Seal Telecom has been the company responsible for the planning and execution of the museum's modernization project, providing all network infrastructure, IT assets, audio and video solutions, broadcast, video surveillance, access control and stage lighting.

In turn, Seal hired ALCom Engineering (Christie LATAM Authorized Service Partner) to define, install and integrate Christie solutions in the museum, which include a total of 12 1DLP projectors, show control solutions Pandoras Box, software Widget Designer and the Mystique camera-based alignment and recalibration solution, ideal for multi-projection.

Immersive room

The museum has an immersive room for multimedia installations. Eight pieces of equipment have been installed there. DWU1075-GS that project in pairs in blending on the four walls of the space. Besides, two others D20WU-HS, they shoot in blending on the floor of the room.

The final result is a complete projection (walls and floor) in parallelepiped format 14,16 meters wide, 15,50 long and 5,70 meters high, with a total resolution of 11.168.928 pixels.

This screening is managed with Pandoras Box, which allows the content to evenly fill the entire space, creating the sensation of immersion.

A Pandoras Box server is used to manage the projection on the four walls and another for the floor, as well as Christie Mystique to speed up the adjustment of projection on walls.

“Pandoras Box is a powerful image management and management system that is being essential for the museum. Thanks to this system, In the immersive room we can perform the projection with a huge number of pixels, allowing the composition of the total image from several content files, no performance loss. It also enables the generation of content in parts (one for each screen), which facilitates the rendering process in content creation”, points out Adriano Luiz da Cunha, ALCom electronic engineer.

Mapping on the façade

Christie's integrated solutions are also used to create projection mapping as a video exhibition on the museum's exterior façade, so that it can be seen by visitors and passersby.

For this, two D20WU-HS projectors are used that project in blending on a surface of 35,15 meters wide by 11,39 meters high, with a final resolution of 3,336×1.080 (3.602.880 pixels).

This mapping, which is controlled by a Pandoras Box server, it is not permanent, so projectors are set up and adjusted at special events, being suspended on mobile lifting platforms.

As Adriano explains, Christie Mystique software is essential for the viability and agility in configuring the mapping on the façade when different events are held., since this tool saves the user from hours of tedious work when installing, align, calibrate and maintain multi-projection systems.

The ALCom engineer also praises Christie projectors that, as he says, They fit perfectly with the project: “They are laser projectors that do not require lamp changes., which would be very complicated in the case of the immersive room as it requires readjustments with each change of light bulbs. Besides, despite having high luminosity, They are compact and light, which facilitated the installation and positioning among other elements on the ceiling of the immersive room.”