Las Vegas Populous 2023

MSG Sphere

Overview

The largest spherical structure ever built and, at roughly 2.3 billion USD, one of the most expensive venues on the planet. 157 metres in diameter and 112 metres tall, the Sphere wraps its audience in a 16K interior display of around 15,000 m² — while its outer Exosphere skin carries a further 54,000 m² of programmable LEDs, making it simultaneously the world’s largest indoor and outdoor screens.

Scope

Custom Rhino plug-ins and Grasshopper definitions, written in C#, automated the full Digital Twin of the interior LED screen structure.

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Outcome

The model was generated to a precision of 0.001 mm and prepared for production fully automatically, eliminating manual modelling across the entire interior screen system.

Capabilities Applied

  • Custom Rhino plug-in development (C#)
  • Grasshopper parametric definitions
  • Full Digital Twin generation
  • Automated production-ready output