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The boards

Every design so far, at the screen's real shape. Pick any of them in the simulator below to see it on the overpass.

The BCCI overpass board, simulated

Each board is drawn at the screen's real 480 by 288 LED grid, then put on the Sir Manuel Esquivel overpass in daylight. Slide the distance from under the board out to the far lane. The close-up shows the actual pixels, which is what a 16 by 10 foot screen with 480 dots across looks like up close.

Close-up: the LED dots, 6x

A 60 by 36 pixel patch of the board, centred on the biggest line. Thin strokes break up here; thick ones hold.

What the simulator does

  • Renders the board design at exactly 480 by 288, the screen's resolution.
  • Draws it as discrete LED dots with gaps, so edges and thin type break the way they will on the real screen.
  • Washes the contrast with sunlight. Daytime LED boards never reach the blacks you see on a monitor.
  • Shrinks and softens with distance. At 100 metres the board is the size of a thumbnail in your windscreen.
  • It cannot show the real brightness, flicker or the exact panel. Treat it as a readability test, not a photo.