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Energy City At The Houston Museum Of Natural Science Features Cutting-Edge Projection Mapping
Opening this month at the Houston Museum of Nat ural Science, Energy City takes center stage in the new Wiess Energy Hall. This 2,500-square-foot 3D landscape represents Houston, the surrounding Gulf coastal waters, and the terrain of southeast and central Texas. Images on a vibrant 1/lS0th-scale white model are created using bleeding-edge projection-mapping technology via Green Hippo Hippotizer media servers to illustrate the energy value chain with dynamic animation as the entire tableau cycles from day to night.
Two years ago, RabCup was hired by Paul Bernhard Exhibit Design and Consulting (PBE) to bring Energy City to life and immediately got to work on assembling the best possible group of field experts. “We selected Hippotizer for its rock-solid performance, as well as the sheer ability to move over 128 megapixels of content, while dealing with a model that is over 13 million vertices,” says AJ Freysteinson, RabCup co-founder/creative director, who led the project with RabCup co-founder Justin Fortier.