Full screen graphical output

I am working on a project for a school where I need to do fast (relatively speaking) graphics rendering in real time.
Essentially, I have 5 computers; 1 Server and 4 clients. Each client is hooked to a projector and is responsible for one letter of the word LASA. I have the network bits working, so that each client is told what color and what position to draw the letter at, but now I am having trouble with getting it to draw quickly and smoothly.
First I tried working with just making the pane full screen using a property node and modifying its background color at runtime, this worked great, so long as I didn't try to change anything on the panel, which made moving the letter using this method impossible. Next, I thought I could use an image control since they are designed to handle quickly changing graphics and I could then just pragmatically generate the image on the fly. While this seems like a great idea, I can't figure out how to make it full screen.
Any help is appreciated.

Attached is an example of the picture control doing this by changing the origin. You can coordinate VIs by changing this origin synchronously in your displays using commands. You can change the appearance of the VI front panel so that the title bar, scroll bars, etc are all not shown, and even make the background transparent, then maximize it. The picture control allows you to easily change the background color of your text using either a rectangle in the background or with the text background itself (if the text is large enough). You can programmatically scale the picture control and font size so that it looks good on your monitor. You could also programmatically make the VI front panel slightly larger than your monitor so there are no seams. Remember to have a way to close everything. The picture control has a rich set of mouse events, so this should be pretty easy.
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