[CTS] Speaking of Lights! :-)
- From: "Charles R. Buchanan" <daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Computer Talk Mailing List <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:39:18 -0800
Borrowed from a local mailing list. Get a head start on things. :-)
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I know this is OT but it does involve Windows.
The "Christmas Lights" video by Carson Williams that's been floating around
the Internet was instrumented and sequenced on a Windows PC -
http://media.putfile.com/WizardsofWinter-SM. The execution and playback
was also orchestrated by a Windows PC using nothing more than a 16-way light
controller octopus, a serially connected analog controller for the PC, and
some commercially-available software. The response to his video was such a
big deal that he was interviewed by the Today Show, various radio shows, and
more recently, the video was captured and played back as a Miller Light
commercial.
HOW TO:
The Windows software he used, along with the commercially available
controllers are all available in a kit here: http://www.lightorama.com/
(There are other controller equipment vendors out there like
http://www.d-light.us and http://www.animatedlighting.com but this is the
one he used.)
And for you geeks out there, instructions on how to replicate exactly what
Carson Williams did are available at the link below. Carson's posted not
only the instructions on how to do it but also the exact sequencing file
he's used with Lightorama, so quite literally, your "replication" will be
timed to the music in the exact same way as the video. (Assuming you use
the same song he did - Transiberian Orchestra's Wizards in Winter:
http://www.wonderlandchristmas.com/wizardsofwinter.php
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels
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