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Originally Posted by glowrock
Now THIS is how I'd like the Cathedral of Learning to be illuminated! Not with the crazy-kaleidoscope LED lights, but something classy. A building of its stature deserves some class.
Aaron (Glowrock)
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That is using Metal Halide lighting with wide beam floods at the base of the top. It most likely would use LED lighting for the long hours, low maintenance, far superior energy use, and many other benefits. With LED grazers as mentioned can better highlight certain architectural detail. These grazers are small and narrow and can be hidden pretty well and highlight the arches really well. It would look awesome. I was driving home from work yesterday down Forbes. Highlighting the elongated arches with narrow beams would be badass and classy, but yes, keep out the LED color changers. The kaleidoscope lighting scene above at the festival of lights was a light projection, not LED lighting fixtures. I just hope it isn't the lighting designer who I think it is, and will make it color LEDs. I would like a warm color temp to almost like a incandescent feel. This would be classy for a old gothic art deco building like the old Cathedral. If always wanted to put this building in my rendering software, but would need it in sketch up first.