To mark the start of the international festival next Sunday night, a digital light show will be beamed on to Edinburgh Castle and the chiseled bulk of Castle Rock β the remnant of a volcano that erupted m years ago. The one-off show is called Deep Time, a reference to the discoveries of James Hutton , an amateur scientist from Edinburgh widely acknowledged as being the father of modern geology.
Hutton also sketched out a theory of natural selection in The producers created a highly accurate 3D-printed model of the castle β based on laser scans, aerial and ground-based photographs of the site β to help write and design the show.
They worked closely with geologists at the University of Edinburgh in devising the script for the first of three shows they have been contracted to make for the festival. Deep Time will be staged without a full dress rehearsal. Instead 59 Productions will project live segments of the show against the castle late at night this week before showing it to 27, people gathered under the rock in a cordoned off, ticketed area on Sunday night.
When we have done projection tests, it transformed what we were applying to it in a completely unexpected way. The main player is the castle and the rock. The military tattoo has been staged on the castle esplanade for 66 years and the castle will be the backdrop and launchpad for a vast firework display that traditionally marks the end of the international festival every year. Scouring Scotland , Hutton found newer horizontal sedimentary rocks over ancient layers that had been twisted or left vertical, or rocks enfolded by once-molten granite.
A computer-generated image of the digital light show that will be projected on to Edinburgh Castle. Photograph: 59 Productions. This article is more than 8 years old.
