Not at all knocking it whatsoever - obviously a fucking dope work of art, but I assume you model it all out in some kind of 3D drone software and just tell them all when and where to fly in relation to each other and they do the work from there automatically?
Actually, I'd love to see some youtubes on how that's done, Im sure its fascinatingly more complex than that
You act like making the software in the first place is some easy thing. We aren’t marvelling at the fact that someone’s using the technology it’s the fact that someone could make software that connects to all of those drones at the same time that makes it so cool.
No not at all, Im baffled and blown away daily by the problem solving skills that software engineers have (I work in aerospace in IT supporting a ton of these kinda folks). I meant to say the opposite with the beginning of the comment but I see how it implies otherwise. Its utterly years beyond my comprehension and I know even my own assumption of how complex it is doesnt even come close. Shits nuts
Nope, every drone is controlled independently by a different operator. They're that good. There are actually fairly new doctorate programs at some schools on the west coast for drone operation. It's so insane that it's almost unbelievable.
Since we're correction, it's not octopi, the language is weird so even tho normally this would make sense it doesn't with the word octopus. It's octopuses. Sounds stupid, but that's what it be
Since we're correcting, octopi wouldn't make sense even if we were sticking to the original language, because it's derived from greek rather than latin. Hence it's "octopuses" vs "octopodes", with "octopi" just being based on the misconception that an -us ending means latin.
Both octipode and octopuses are correct however octopuses is "most correct". Octopi is never right.
It's root is Greek not Latin. Latin would make ot octopi
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That software just sends the image to a team in Guangzhou who make the individual flight plans from the image, ready to distribute to the drone operation team.
Drone operator here. This is not true at all. Since economic problems we had to be careful with our budget so that's why we have to operate 3 or 4 drones at the same time. It's hard to learn how to coördinate a drone with your feet but once you can, you are the man.
If you miss a finger or toe you will not fit this job requirements.
Is this the same doctorate program that began in nineteen ninety eight when undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through the announcer's table?
They don’t necessarily have to move the drones, there could simply be an entire grid of drones and some of them have their lights off. Also if you equip them with rgb lights then you would probably only need a program to keep them in a grid in sync and then a program to control the lights to make different images which probably already exists from concert lighting.
It’s not wasteful, more points of reference means better art and the movement looks cleaner. Yes you can do it by moving the drones but by using a light grid it will not only look better but be able to do more than you can with just drones moving around.
Yeh, so I actually know one of the guys working on this specific drone team that also went to Burning man. And what I gathered from him is that it automated. Didn’t ask him too much tech stuff tho seeing as he is a creative on the team more focussed on the imagery.
Doesn't seem like immense processing power should be required to triangulate relative locations from other nearby drones. Difficult but doable, animate some vertices and export as alembic or another format, upload to the drones, and adjust their acceleration to minimize the error from the correct position using some differential eqs and control theory.
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Not at all knocking it whatsoever - obviously a fucking dope work of art, but I assume you model it all out in some kind of 3D drone software and just tell them all when and where to fly in relation to each other and they do the work from there automatically?
Actually, I'd love to see some youtubes on how that's done, Im sure its fascinatingly more complex than that