Posted: August 4, 2007

Triathlon: Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships 2007

WC Dome premieres in Hamburg Hamburg, 03 August 2007: In less than thirty days the world championships will take place in Germany for the first time in triathlon history. The Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships from 30 August to 02 September 2007 will bring over 8.000 athletes from over 60 different nations to the Hanseatic City. In order to make Germany’s second biggest city aware of this sports highlight the official WC Dome is now installed in the river Binnenalster. From 03 August 2007, the \\\"world’s most beautiful natural swimming pool\\\" will be shrouded daily in a spectacular light from 09.00 pm to midnight. All four sides of the WC Dome will light up to arouse WC atmosphere within the complete city centre. During daytime strolling inhabitants and visitors will also note a digital countdown highlighting the remaining time until the start of the world championships. The WC-Dome consists of semicircular and translucent tent construction with a cupola 7.8 metres high. The dome is fastened to pontoons of 150 square metres, designed with the official logos and anchored about 70 metres off the landing docks of the Binnenalster. Main component of this unprecedented project is a spectacular 360° laser show by one of the biggest colour laser systems in the world. The total laser and light power is 59.000 watts alone. The idea and complete concept of the illuminations was developed by the artists Frank Dauer and Roman Mundhenk. Their storyboard was implemented and animated by computer scientists Dirk Grafe and Lennart Wietzke from LaserStudio (www.laserstudio.de). To project the forms and figures onto the cupola of the WC Dome two different laser sources, a sophisticated mirror system and a special micro controller, which was only developed for this project, are being used. First pictures from the WC Dome premiere on 02 August are available under: www.hamburgcityman.de Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest