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The "Wave", conceived by Siobhan Hapaska and Fiddian Warman, is an LED artwork engineered by Technographic Displays. The piece is installed in the Ilac shopping centre in Dublin.

64 five-metre-long custom extrusions house LED boards to form a full-colour display with a resolution of 64 x 96 pixels. The extrusions are attached to a specially-fabricated aluminium beam which houses the power supplies and data distribution circuits. The beam is suspended by three steel cables so that the display appears to hang in mid-air.

Technographic Displays also supplied a FibrePlex unit to convert moving images (in the form of DVI from a PC) to a fibre optic signal which could be run the 300m from the display control location to the artwork itself.

Technographic Displays designed the extrusions, LED boards, data distribution boards and the FibrePlex converter and all the final assembly work was carried out in-house. The installation work was carried out over five nights in December 2006 so as not to disturb the Christmas shoppers.

The 64 extrusions are positioned so that, when viewed from a distance directly in front of the display, images are clearly visible in a square-pixel format. From any other angle, the wave shape means that images become distorted and moving images appear to flow and undulate over the wave.

Twickenham Stadium -

New large screens control system

As part of the major development work being carried out at Twickenham Stadium, Technographic Displays was commissioned to develop a customised control system which could provide scoring, live video and graphics on the new scoreboards and video screens simultaneously, and from a common TechScore user interface (for operation by a single operator).

The two video screens, installed by CT Screenco are Mitsubishi Electric OD10 models, each one 69m² in size. The two scoreboards, supplied by Display LED are model OD25, and each measure 16m x 1.4m.

The system was used for the first time at the England vs New Zealand match on 5th November 2006 in front of a record attendance at Twickenham of 82,000.

Emirates Stadium -

The new home of Arsenal

Technographic Displays supplied the high-definition video and graphics control system to Mitsubishi Electric for installation at the Emirates Stadium in July 2006.

The two Mitsubishi Electric video screens each measure 12m x 6m and have a resolution of 960 x 480 dots. Technographic's control solution was carefully designed to maintain optimum resolution for both internally-generated graphics and external (high-definition) video inputs.

A web-browser user interface was developed specially for the project, allowing the screens to be operated from anywhere within the stadium, so that they can be controlled locally for corporate events or from the stadium's television studio on match days.

ACTIV-Banner goes large

Technographic Displays has been providing scoreboard control systems and operational services for athletics events since 2003. Until now, the scoreboards have all been 32 square metres in area but, for the longer viewing distances involved at the Gateshead International Stadium, Fast Track Events decided to commission a 72 square metre version for the Norwich Union British Grand Prix on 11th June 2006. Creative Technology provided 144 square metres of screen area in total, with half being used as a video screen and half as a scoreboard.

The large-size screen was hailed a great success and is likely to be commissioned for further outdoor events.

"FibrePlex" DVI interface

Technographic Displays has designed a new interface enabling DVI-D signals to be converted to a number of optical (glass) fibre protocols. Firmware for the interface card is currently being developed for three different applications involving both Technographic's own displays and third-party LED panels.

New full-colour LED display from Technographic Displays

May 2006: Technographic Displays has designed a brand new display product suitable for large-area indoor locations.

Model: Tech-25

Pixel pitch: 25mm

LED PCB: 8 x 4 pixels

(can be cut to 4 x 4 pixels)

Weight: Approx. 28kg/sqm

Luminance: 2,400NIT

Applications:

Indoor video displays
Backdrops / lighting effects
Full-colour text & graphics

A solid investment

April 2006: Technographic Displays has recently invested in SolidWorks, a powerful 3D product design software package. This package will complement our existing 2D mechanical design software, printed circuit board design and routing software and FPGA design software.

LED colour-changing for external architectural lighting

Technographic Displays has been supplying colour-changing LED lighting systems since 2001. The latest project, supplied in March 2006, involved a Technographic Colour Control (TCC) system comprising a total of four TCC2 boards able to control up to 2.4kW of LED colour-changing lamps. The system will be installed externally on a building in Glasgow, with the colour of the lamps being controlled by the motion of the building's lifts, external temperature and wind speed.

TechScore and beyond

TechScore has been chosen for a number of major UK stadium display applications due for completion in 2006. This will enable Technographic Displays to offer more and more features, and to develop TechScore for sports other than football. In our development work, major emphasis is being placed on reliability, ease-of-use and video handling capabilities.

Please keep an eye on this news page from time to time during 2006 for further announcements regarding TechScore as it finds new applications.

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ACTIV-Banner in action again

Technographic Displays provided an ACTIV-Banner control system together with operational services at the Norwich Union International Athletics held at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow on 28th January 2006 and again at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena on 18th February 2006 for the Norwich Union Athletics Grand Prix.