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In downtown Brussels, designers Daphné Delbeke and Marc Largent have temporarily turned the top eight floors of an office tower into a spectacular new-product announcement, visible throughout the entire city! The concept was born last October, when Marc visited LDI and saw the prototype ColourPix V-LED system on the TMB booth. Largent immediately foresaw the unlimited possibilities – somewhere between lighting and video – of this brand new technology. Since then he has been anxiously awaiting the release of the finished product!

The massive LED array, showing custom video content created by Marc and Daphné’s company, Magic Monkey, is now being used to announce the launch of Toyota’s hybrid-car, the Prius, in Europe. The system runs nightly from 8 PM to 8 AM (GMT +1) CET until April 12. It can be seen via the Internet on a web-cam at Toyota’s official webpage http://fr.toyota.be and at Magic Monkey’s home page http://www.magicmonkey.net

Belgian production-rental company Can Do purchased and installed the brand new V-LED system. The temporary installation utilizes 608 ColourPix Pro-V8 8” fixtures, 38 wide by 16 high, giving a 2,000 square meter, 70m x 28m, low-resolution video array. Two fixtures are placed in opposite diagonal corners of 304 windows (with no interruption of regular office activity). It should be noted that one ColourPix V-LED controller will run up to 4,000 fixtures, so the system could be up to six times as big! Higher resolution would also be possible with closer spacing of fixtures. This array is configured in a rectangle, but any shape, or combination of shapes, is easily configured and patched using the ColourPix custom software. ColourPix fixtures will display video from any video source. The fixtures are 120/220 volts and control wiring is a simple daisy-chain, using standard DMX cable with no individual addressing required. Mpegs of the Toyota installation, plus other ColourPix installations, can be seen at www.tmb.com/products/colourpix