slow-moving scenes stay smooth and don’t break up – and bright, high-energy moments don’t overpower the room. The Absen Venus used for the tour handles the blacks and the gradients extremely well when compared to other products.” The creative and technical teams collaborated from an early stage. Involving the technical team in the design stage meant the content was built for the screens from the start, rather than adapted afterwards. Such a cooperative approach was central to Cox’s vision for Emergence . “Regular reviews of content on the actual LED, not just on a monitor, helped catch issues
the screen configuration work across different arenas, smaller set-ups were required for some of the arenas.” The tour featured cosmology, quantum mechanics and the origins of life, combining LED screens displaying cosmological data, supercomputer simulations and graphics, with advanced lighting and sound design that bridges science, philosophy and music. According to Annibal, sequences with fine detail, such as star fields, cosmic-scale imagery or subtle gradients, are the hardest on LED because pixel pitch, brightness and banding all become visible. “We spent time tuning content and processing so that dark,
GALAXIES FAR, FAR AWAY The multimedia designed for Brian Cox’s Emergence world tour had to span cosmos to conscience
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