having been asked to design a visual show for dutch singer Bente specifically for this stage, I quickly realised when looking at my LED Output map that it would become very hard to accurately design moving elements on such a complex stage. since I had run shows on this exact stage the years before that, I knew what it's challenges were. namely the warped strips and spaced out panels. that is why I decided to create a realtime pre-vis of this stage in 3D. so I can design my visual show in resolume, while having an accurate 3D representation of what it will look like on the real stage. this also helped communicate my progress to the artist and her team. I mapped the LED output map onto a plane in blender, cut up and extruded the mesh, and then UV mapped every 3D panel to the correct position on the Output mapping. using SPOUT and NDI, this allowed me to output pixel perfectly to the digital version of the stage, exactly how the real stage takes input. I modelled all truss elements exactly on size using a measured schematic of the stage provided by Paaspop