NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theater Division - 3D Visualization of Theatrical Lighting Designs

FAIN: HD-248577-16

New York Public Library (New York, NY 10016-0109)
Doug Reside (Project Director: September 2015 to June 2019)
Gregory P. Lord (Co Project Director: March 2016 to June 2019)

Initial planning and a feasibility study to determine how virtual simulation software could be re-purposed to create representations of historical theater designs based on archival sources.

To emulate theatrical lighting design in a web-based 3D visualization platform that would give humanities scholars a way to see the effects historical lighting designs were meant to create. More specifically, NEH funding would make possible a feasibility study for emulating lighting design using current web-based 3-D technology. Depending on the results of this study, the project team will determine the best way to move forward to build a robust tool for serving emulations of lighting designs in special collection reading rooms.

Media Coverage

A Digital Time Capsule For Broadway Stage Lights (Media Coverage)
Author(s): ADRIENNE LAFRANCE
Publication: The Atlantic
Date: 3/25/2016
Abstract: Atlantic article covering the beginning of the project
URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/theater-history/475293/