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Tuesday, October 01, 2024
Ten thousand drone show sets two new records in Shenzhen Ten thousand drone show sets two new records in Shenzhen
www.avinteractive.com: A Chinese live event has broken the world record for the ‘largest number of drones flying simultaneously under the control of a single computer’.
A total of 10,197 drones took to the sky over Shenzhen on 26 September to mark the upcoming National Day public holiday on 1 October.
2 comments:
Julia H.
said...
I knew that the use of drones in performances was mostly in the photography technology of live shows. The design of a set of drones of this scale is refreshing and captivating. I think this is a technological innovation, and to be able to control so many drones at the same time to form different patterns, probably requires a very sophisticated programming technique and coordination. It looks like outside is a better place to use a drone. But perhaps weather and air currents also affect drone control. Indoors can be challenging too. For example, Grown ups in our school originally intended to use drones indoors, but it was not used because of various policies and safety concerns. Perhaps in the future, there will also be more robust systems indoors that will allow people to think about using drones for all sorts of creative ideas, pushing the boundaries of performance art and storytelling.
I have an almost strange obsession with these drone shows, just because they are so interesting to understand how it all works. These drone shows are so intricate even when they are just a handful of drones, let alone a record breaking amount of drones. I think it is always interesting to see how they have drone shows to recreate original structures of buildings that have deteriorated over time, but it is also fun when they make large images and swap through them. The most interesting part of it all though is seeing the coding required to make these shows, and something I learned recently is that Tait's Navigator software has the capability to control drone shows like this. The article talks more about the record, but I would be interested to see what software they use for these large scale drone shows. I imagine there's more and more custom software for things like this, and I wonder if that will ever come into the theatre world.
2 comments:
I knew that the use of drones in performances was mostly in the photography technology of live shows. The design of a set of drones of this scale is refreshing and captivating. I think this is a technological innovation, and to be able to control so many drones at the same time to form different patterns, probably requires a very sophisticated programming technique and coordination. It looks like outside is a better place to use a drone. But perhaps weather and air currents also affect drone control. Indoors can be challenging too. For example, Grown ups in our school originally intended to use drones indoors, but it was not used because of various policies and safety concerns. Perhaps in the future, there will also be more robust systems indoors that will allow people to think about using drones for all sorts of creative ideas, pushing the boundaries of performance art and storytelling.
I have an almost strange obsession with these drone shows, just because they are so interesting to understand how it all works. These drone shows are so intricate even when they are just a handful of drones, let alone a record breaking amount of drones. I think it is always interesting to see how they have drone shows to recreate original structures of buildings that have deteriorated over time, but it is also fun when they make large images and swap through them. The most interesting part of it all though is seeing the coding required to make these shows, and something I learned recently is that Tait's Navigator software has the capability to control drone shows like this. The article talks more about the record, but I would be interested to see what software they use for these large scale drone shows. I imagine there's more and more custom software for things like this, and I wonder if that will ever come into the theatre world.
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