Given the project's scope and budget for the agency I guess doing this with actual threads would have made it very hard to maintain on site, magnitudes slower a

Given the project's scope and budget for the agency I guess doing this with actual threads would have made it very hard to maintain on site, magnitudes slower and result in a skyrocketing part count. So this compromise is fair and still impressive. BREAKFAST did a display before which might have been even more impressive: http://breakfastny.com/dot-screen http://breakfastny.com/dot-screen