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Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next PageABE FMaGSMore LED projects in BeijingPanasonic, an official worldwide Olympic partner,installed 25 Astrovision LED displays at 18Olympic Games venues. The screens had a totalarea of 1291 sq. m.Neo-Neon supplied color-changing LEDpathway lighting to illuminate the walkwaysleading into the Bird’s Nest stadium, as well asother products for an LED display to entertainvisitors at Festival Walk.Chinese enterprise Shenzhen Sansun Hi-TechCo. told LEDs Magazine in March that it has supplied4 LED screens for the two highest-profilevenues at the Olympics. Two P24 LED displays,at a size of 16.42 x 9.24 m or 152 sq. m (around1636 sq. ft.), were used in the Birds Nest stadium.The two others — also P24s with a size of6.14 x 4.61 m, or 28.3 sq. m — were installed inthe Water Cube (see www.ledsmagazine.com/_______news/5/3/11).LED lighting products from GE were usedto light the Beijing Organizing Committee’sheadquarters building, and solar-poweredLED street lighting fixtures were used at theBarco provides LED screensAt the 12 Olympic Live Sites, Barco’s LEDscreens made it possible for millions ofBeijing people to watch the games in largegroups, live and outdoors.At the landmark Jingxin Building, China’slargest outdoor LED screen, at 758 sq.m, beamed Olympic images to millionsof visitors on Beijing’s 3rd Ring Road. TheOlympic soccer field in Shanghai was alsolit up by a 391 sq. m Barco LED screen.Fengtai Softball Field.Beijing Leyard installed 5 LED displays, eachmeasuring ~100 sq. m, at the Olympic CulturalSquares in Beijing. Leyard integrated its colorcorrection technology with Macroblock’s 16-bitPWM LED driver-MBI5030 in order to achievehigher display performance and enhanced colorresolution. The screens broadcast the Games liveto outdoor viewers (see www.ledsmagazine.com/press/15979).LED dragons illuminate fountainsOsram Opto Semiconductors and Tong Fang Co. Ltd. used Osram Golden Dragon LEDs to illuminate the elegant water fountainsin Beijing’s Olympic Park. These LEDs, with lens and enhanced thin-film LED components, provided the “dragon” withits characteristic golden glow. Installed in July in Beijing, the fountains are located along the north east side of the Bird’s Nestand the Water Cube in Olympic Park. The 600 m long fountain is formed by thousands of tiny water jets arranged in a long,gentle curve cutting through the Olympic Park, creating a river stretching two kilometers long. The dynamic jets launchwater columns as high as 6 m, creating a kind of rolling wave, like the body of a dragon as it glides through the air.MORE DETAILS: www.ledsmagazine.com/news/5/8/1428 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008 LEDsmagazine.comPrevious Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next PageABE FMaGS