I. Overview <br> Dalian is the warmest port in northern China. Dalian Natural History Museum is the first natural history museum in China. With a collection of nearly 200,000 specimens, it is a large museum that integrates plants, animals, fossils and geological specimens. The Dalian Museum of Nature supports and encourages scientific research, such as marine life and fossil research. The Dalian Museum of Nature has a number of spectator-participating events, such as multimedia devices for touch screens that emit a variety of animal sounds, self-test systems and other similar displays.
The Museum of Species Diversity of the Dalian Nature Museum is one of the museum's highlights. The multimedia sound, light and electricity synchronous simulation of the natural landscape demonstration system creates an immersive feeling for the audience. With the push of a button, the audience can enjoy an interactive natural landscape effect that automatically changes from daytime, evening, lightning, thunder, heavy rain, rainy weather, late night, dawn, and daytime sound, light, and electricity. With the changes of realistic stage art scenes and a variety of precious animal specimens, the audience will experience a refreshing artistic power.
The control device is the core part of the demonstration system. It needs to meet the requirements of public lighting, exhibit lighting, dance art lighting and multimedia sound, light and electricity linkage. The main control equipment selected by the natural landscape demonstration system of Dalian Natural History Museum—HDL-BUS multimedia intelligent environment art lighting control system was developed, installed and debugged by Guangzhou Hedong Electronics Co., Ltd.
This paper briefly describes the system requirements, system solutions, control equipment system components and related issues of the Natural Landscape Demonstration System of Dalian Natural History Museum. It is hoped that through this opportunity, we will focus on and discuss the increasingly prosperous museums and other large venues with intelligent lighting. And multimedia application solutions.
Dalian Nature Museum, located by the sea
| Yin Zhongde, a national first-level dance designer (left), Professor Chen (right) of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and the author (middle) of the design of the scene |
Second, the functional requirements of the natural landscape demonstration system <br> The museum provides a length of 6 minutes and 34 seconds of natural music, including a variety of birds, thunder, animal late night activities, etc., mainly in the virgin forest one day Scene changes. According to the lighting designer's lighting scene requirements, the HDL-BUS intelligent environment art lighting scene editing software is used to edit the required lighting scenes. The lighting scene changes synchronously according to the change of music time, and produces a huge and vivid dynamic visual impact effect with illumination brightness and color.
The lighting scene of the entire demonstration program is divided into day, evening, lightning, thunder, rain, rain, night, night, dawn and so on.
When the music time goes to the daytime, the lighting scene automatically changes to the white fluorescent lamp group on the background painting gradually rises to 80% brightness, the white surface light, backlight, and backlight of the animal specimen gradually rise to 50% brightness, and the color changer is automatically replaced. white.
When the music time is up to the evening, the lighting scene automatically changes to 60% of the orange fluorescent light set on the background, and the brightness of the white fluorescent light set gradually drops to 30%. The white surface light, backlight, and backlight of the animal specimen are gradually extinguished. The specimen's white surface, backlight, and backlight gradually rise to 50 brightness, and the color changer automatically changes to orange. The entire exhibition hall is immersed in a sunset glow.
When the music time is going to the lightning scene, the lighting scene automatically changes to the brightness of the blue fluorescent lamp group on the background painting gradually rises to 40%, the orange surface light, the backlight, the backlight brightness gradually disappear, the blue surface light, the backlight, the backlight gradually rises. By 30% brightness, the cloud light automatically turns on, the running cloud starts to start, the strobe light automatically turns on, and the color changer automatically changes to dark blue.
When the music time goes to the raining scene, the lighting scene automatically changes to the brightness of the blue fluorescent lamp group on the background painting gradually decreases to 20%, and the rain light is turned on. And turn on the lightning headlights, the lightning headlights draw two lightning bolts on the background. Let the audience seem to enter a virgin forest that is raining.
When the music time goes through the rain, the lighting scene changes automatically to the background. The brightness of the blue fluorescent lamp group gradually drops to 30%, the rain light, the cloud light and the lightning headlights automatically turn off, and the brightness of the white fluorescent light set gradually rises to 80% brightness, the white surface light, back light, and backlight of the animal specimen gradually rise to 50% brightness, and the color changer is automatically changed to white. Keep the audience in a fresh feeling after the rain.
When the music time is up to the night, the brightness of the white fluorescent lamp group gradually disappears, and the brightness of the blue daylight group gradually decreases to 10%. The white surface light, back light, and backlight of the animal specimen gradually drop to 20% brightness, and the water lamp is automatically activated. Let the audience experience the unique tranquility of the night in the virgin forest.
When the music time goes When going to the middle of the night, the brightness of the blue daylight group gradually decreased to 0%, the white surface light, back light, and backlight of the animal specimen gradually decreased to 0% brightness, and the brightness of the ground blue daylight group gradually increased to 20% brightness. The audience experienced the mystery in the virgin forest.
When the music time reaches dawn, the brightness of the blue daylight group gradually rises to 30%, the white surface light, backlight, and backlight of the animal specimen gradually rise to 30% brightness, and the brightness of the ground blue daylight group gradually disappears, the orange fluorescent lamp The brightness of the group is 60%, and the color changer is automatically changed to orange, allowing the audience to experience the vitality in the original forest.
The demo program can be cycled through a single button press. When there is no audience, the lighting scene automatically returns to the basic lighting scene, only a small number of basic lighting fixtures are turned on.
Third, the demonstration system solution The Museum of Species Diversity of Dalian Natural History Museum is a new exhibition hall in the museum. In the display means, it uses the high-tech of modern lighting, sound and multimedia computers. In addition to the traditional display, it also brings the specimens closer to the audience in an interactive way. The perfect combination of nature and people.
The types, functions and control methods of the lamps used are as follows:
The track dimmable downlight is used for backlighting and surface light of animal specimens. The PAR lamp is equipped with a color changer and is used as a backlight for animal specimens. The system hardware is controlled by HDL-MD1210 intelligent dimming box and HDL-MC48 IP-DMX performance controller (DMX512 signal output).
Fluorescent lamps (equipped with dimmable electronic ballasts) are used for sky changes, such as blue sky and sunset clouds; the system hardware is controlled by the HDL-MRDA06 digital dimming interface module.
Cloud lights, rain lights, strobe lights, and water lights are used to run the cloud, project the water, rain and lightning on the lake surface; the system hardware is controlled by HDL-MR 0610 intelligent switch module.
HDL audio and video control module for loading audio, video, HDL sound and photoelectric synchronization demonstration software.
The above equipments are installed in two lighting distribution boxes of the central control room. The control panel is installed in the 86-box wall mounting mode. It is the most convenient place for the lecturer to contact. The HDL-BUS environment art lighting system hardware uses an HDL-BUS. The bus realizes intelligent control, the wiring installation is very flexible, and it can be co-located and co-managed with the strong power. The HDD audio and video control module of the central control room is connected with the system hardware by the Ethernet signal.
The system is organized as shown below:
Fourth, the advantages of using HDL-BUS intelligent environment art lighting system
1. Colorful artistic effects.
A variety of lighting effects to achieve a variety of lighting control methods, can make the animal specimens in the museum have a variety of artistic effects, adding a lot of color to the animal specimens. Different colors of light give the museum vitality, making the whole scene more vivid and artistic, giving a rich visual effect and beauty. According to different time, different use, different effects, using the corresponding preset scenes for control, can achieve rich artistic effects.
2. Easy management and maintenance.
The intelligent lighting control system controls the lighting mainly with modular automatic control. The manual control is supplemented. The parameters of the lighting preset scene are stored digitally in the control panel. The setting and replacement of these information is very convenient, making the museum's Lighting management and equipment maintenance have become easier. At the same time, the entire demo program is also stored on the panel. When a visitor enters, the interpreter will simply turn off all the unwanted lighting scenes and enter a sound and photoelectric synchronized performance program with a single click.
3. Extend the life of the light source.
Extending the life of the light source not only saves a lot of money, but also greatly reduces the workload of replacing the luminaire, reduces the operating cost of the lighting system, and makes management and maintenance simple.
Whether it is a thermal radiation source or a gas discharge source, fluctuations in the grid voltage are a major cause of source damage. Therefore, effectively suppressing fluctuations in the grid voltage can extend the life of the light source.
4, good energy-saving effect Intelligent lighting control system with a variety of different "pre-set" control methods and control components, accurately set and manage the illuminance of different environments at different times to achieve energy savings. This method of automatically adjusting the illuminance only lights up or points to the required brightness when necessary, and uses the minimum energy to ensure the required illuminance level. The power saving effect is very obvious, generally up to 30%. In addition, the intelligent lighting control system performs dimming control on the fluorescent lamps in the hall. Since the fluorescent lamps adopt the dimmable electronic ballast with active filtering technology, the harmonic content is reduced, the power factor is improved, and the low voltage is reduced. Power loss.
V. Concluding remarks <br> The Natural Landscape Demonstration System of Dalian Nature Museum successfully combines intelligent lighting technology, multimedia presentation technology, dance art and exhibition art. The accuracy, reliability and ease of operation of networked and intelligent synchronization are the highlights of the natural landscape demonstration control system of Dalian Natural History Museum.
“Environmental stage, stage environment!†Under the premise of meeting basic lighting and energy saving, lighting should be considered in many places in the future, and we must consider the synchronization with AV systems and other related systems to create The perfect artistic lighting. Recently, some smart-named manufacturers in China have formed strategic partnerships, and are making a "multi-network" of intelligent environmental lighting control system, AV control system, stage lighting control system, central control system, stage mechanical control system, and musical fountain control system. "One-in-one" linkage and management platform, and draft communication protocols between different control systems.
With the continuous development of social economy and technology, intelligent lighting and multimedia application solutions for museums and other large venues are increasingly valued by owners and designers. The author believes that in the near future, there will be more and better large-scale venue intelligent lighting and multimedia application solutions!