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Do you have any idea if either FWsim or Finale 3D were implicated in any of the “all at once” firing errors (some may say enhancement?) that affected e.g. San D
by danw1979 11mo ago
Do you have any idea if either FWsim or Finale 3D were implicated in any of the “all at once” firing errors (some may say enhancement?) that affected e.g. San Diego 2012 or Oban 2011 displays ?
Is there any protection against this kind of problem in FireShow ?
- petee 11mo agoSomeone I know in that industry described the San Diego event as being the result of playback scrubbing; by either dragging or accidentally clicking somewhere on the timeline. Obviously heard second hand, but its a close community so I generally trust it - Wikipedia says it was a corrupted file
- alwa 11mo agoSaid Santore the firework producer in delicious bit of Jersey-Italian circumlocution: > It was a computer error. A set of instructions that were given that we didn’t necessarily create, that was created by the system. [0] Sounds consistent with a scrubbing error that they’d love to talk about in ways that sounded like it was the computer wot dunnit… [0] https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/an-oral-history-of-the-great-san-diego-fireworks-fail-of-2012 https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/an-oral-histo...
- petee 11mo agoThey describe here [1] that somehow two sets of instructions were generated, but that doesn't really make sense why that would cause zero delays between cues https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2012/07/12/july-4-fireworks-fiasco-solved-technically/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2012/07/12/july-4-firew...
- Giuseppe_Coco 11mo agoActually, in this first phase, I haven't thought of connecting the software to a control unit that triggers actual fireworks. For now, it's only supposed to be a design show software. But, I guess, that is going to be the next crucial step if pyrotechnics want to use this software
- Giuseppe_Coco 11mo agoTo mitigate this problem, shouldn't tecnicians have a sort of simulated environment where they test their shows, without triggering actual fireworks?