ASTANA and ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Light Converse Ltd.'s LightConverse 3D Show Platform was used for the three-hour opening ceremony at the 2011 Asian Winter Games. Staged at Astana's 40,000-seat indoor stadium, the ceremony for the event, which drew 1,100 competitors from 27 countries, required more than 30 DMX universes, 586 moving light fixtures and multiple moving scenery, static and video elements. The designers used LightConverse as a visualizer for all pre-show programming and on-site touch ups.
The designers and programmers began modeling the stadium in October, allowing for most of the programming to be complete well before the actual move-in, limiting the on-site work to programming touch-ups once rehearsals began.
The show control was via a High End Systems Wholehog 3 OS (32 universes connected with OEM connectivity driver), and the on-site programmers were able to use the console's bi-directional capabilities with LightConverse to their advantage.
Version 51 of the LightConverse 3D Show Platform promises photo-realistic visualizing of lighting, video, laser, pyro, water effects and moving objects, all in real-time, with pixel-mapping capabilities.
In terms of hardware, LightConverse Server-1536 and Server-Studio promise the ability to visualize up to 1536 fixtures (96 Universes) virtually, in addition to providing 3 to 15 live DVI outputs for real-world projection once 3D mapping is completed within the software.
For more information, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3RHXKikseQ and www.lightconverse.net.
