Christie launched Mystique Install at IAAPA last week, a software designed to help the company’s integrators and partners in the attractions industry with large-scale projection experiences, in both 2D and 3D.

Mystique provides automated alignment for multi-projector displays, saving countless valuable manpower hours over time. Calibration – using LEDs in the screen, test patterns and machine vision cameras – takes just one minute per projector, and can even be stepped up to align projectors in between shows, rather than once a day.

The software is also a design tool.

“Mystique Install takes away the challenge in initial design,” Curtis Mutter, Christie solutions manager, told Attractions Management. “This really helps eliminate risk from the project.”

He said: “The automated alignment takes the subjectivity out of the process so these attractions can maintain the ‘day one’ quality the creative team envisioned. These tools make the job easier, freeing up time for staff to focus on ride safety, security systems and higher priority tasks.”

Mystique Install currently works with flat or smooth screens, full dome theatres and curve screens. However, at IAAPA, Christie previewed its automated calibration technology for complex 3D projection mapping projects.

“Where we’re going next is 3D,” said Mutter. “To manually align a projection map on a building or object with complex geometry is pretty challenging. Mystique uses cameras and the light pattern to locate the object in its 3D environment, map it to a model in our software and then pass the info back to the content engineer.”

This will make calibration much simpler, making fixed install projection mapping projects more feasible in the future. That component will launch in 2017.