Locals have caught peeks of the final product over the past couple of months as producers tested the lighting system ahead of the big debut.
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What's more, this innovative hybrid light-source technology enables flexible color settings and a wider color gamut to deliver better color saturation up to 85% NTSC and offers superior color fidelity through a system of three independent color lighting sources.
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The state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system from PCK is unique to Empire State Building and allows customized light capabilities from a palette of over 16 million colors in limitless combinations along with effects previously not possible such as ripples, cross-fades, sparkles, chasers, sweeps, strobes and bursts.
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Information panels in Dari have also been installed at the site, and the building can now be illuminated at night through the addition of an electrical and lighting system.
Eight19, a start-up spun out of Cambridge University, has a similar model in which small payments, like those used to buy kerosene, allow the purchase of a solar-lighting system to be spread out.
In addition to greater control and management of the lighting, the new computerized system will deliver superior light and vibrancy levels in real-time, unlike the previous floodlights.
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The latest facelift (unveiled last night with help from Grammy-award winning singer Alicia Keys) comes in the form of a cutting-edge LED lighting system, provided by Philips Color Kinetics (PCK).
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The new Nikon HD-SLR is also a gateway to Nikon's renowned Creative Lighting System (CLS) which illuminates a whole new world of creative image making using multiple Speedlights.
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"We had problems with our lighting system which had caused many lights to fuse and needed the attention of an electrician, " he said.
It will also feature an improved air-filtration system and an LED lighting scheme that can be programmed to help fight the effects of jet lag, as well as larger overhead storage bins.
What's more, Nikon's Scene Recognition system draws upon the 420-pixel RGB color 3D Matrix Meter for outstanding exposures under a variety of lighting conditions by integrating a database of tens of thousands of sample images.
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Improvements include retrofits to 1, 500 lighting fixtures, a 200-kilowatt rooftop PV array, and an overhaul of the HVAC system.
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