r/HolUp Sep 14 '22

peak ingenuity

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

That drone face is next level tho. And at burning man?

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u/SeptemberTwentyFirst Sep 15 '22

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

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u/CowboyButtsMakeMeNut Sep 15 '22

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.

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u/AntiBox Sep 15 '22

...no it's fully automated. There's even software that just takes an image and turns it into a flight plan.

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u/NorthboundLynx Sep 15 '22

Both of you are wrong. They're just birds with collars with an LED on it, they train them to fly in patterns

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u/MajSARS Sep 15 '22

Liar. There’s no such thing as birds.

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u/IGotBigHands Sep 15 '22

Well birds are just government drones so I guess back to square one

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u/ohtrueyeahnah Sep 15 '22

Squares arent real either, lets circle back to the drawing board.

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u/primal__potato Sep 15 '22

All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle.....

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

It's redundant. Birds are drones. Drones are birds.

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u/ac3boy Sep 15 '22

YEAH, BIRDS AREN'T REAL! WTF FUCK IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE?

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u/A_spiny_meercat Sep 15 '22

Birds aren't real they are government spies

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u/TatManTat Sep 15 '22

Absolutely incredible!

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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.

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u/sympatheticfrog Sep 15 '22

I'm sure that was sarcasm

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u/m0nk37 Sep 15 '22

Hes fucking with you. Its referred to as a swarm control, the exact name i forget. They all position based on sensors to each other.