Danny Whetstone, owner of DWP Live, credited the 3D laser scan that the company did to create an accurate 3D model of Caesars Palace for a “whole new level” of projection precision during Barco’s Belgian Beer Bar party during CinemaCon earlier this year. Ryan Darling, formerly of Darling Geomatics in Tucson, AZ, came on board in 2015 to open DWP Lives’ 3D laser scanning division. Darling used a Leica P30 laser scanner. “HDR imaging reproduces the difference between the lightest light and darkest dark far better than is possible with standard digital imaging techniques,” Darling said. Clay Tipton, lead programmer at DWP Live, then uploaded the 3D model Darling created to a d3 Technologies 4x4Pro media server. Video Format Cards (VFC) upgraded the four outputs on the single server to 16. The laser scan and d3 server delivered a new level of accuracy for the final projection.
—From “Behind the Magic at Caesars Palace: Projection Mapped Precision” by Mike Wharton, cover story, PLSN, June 2016, page 56
