Christmas Lights Gone A Step Too Far. Amazing what people do in their spare time.
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FlyLight said:I have some insight as to how they did it. Probably a concert lighting tech such as myself had alot of spare time and did this. It is run most likely using a control protocol known as DMX -512 to link between the lighting console and a rack of probably 48 or so digital remote control dimmers. He probaby used like a console known as a Whole Hog or Avolites, ETC or something of the like to program it. It also most likely is run off of a time code whereas each lighting chase step is assigned to a certain point in time on a linear time frame. So say step 22 is icicle lights on the roof and it will fire at when the console see's time code 10.5 seconds then step 23 could be the star and that would fire at 11 seconds and step 24 could be a little tree and that would fire at 12.3 seconds, so on and so forth. And the console just fires each step at the assigned time that the cd player is kicking out on the time code. Running a show off of time code is extremely time consuming when you are in the programming phase of actually building each cue and assigning it to the code. Broadway shows of BLAST! that marching percussion show were run off of time code because there was no way to fire lighting cues that accurately and fast enough.
hope that gives you a little idea. don't worry if none of what i said makes sense either, i do that type stuff for a day job. Hope to fly someday, thats why I am here learning about all this aviation stuff.
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