Thanks guys! Last year I was on a long needed sabbatical from blinky. 2013 was a bad season to say the least… A little bit before Thanksgiving the wife says, why don’t you just run the zwilluminaries™
on test mode and maybe the northstar. I start noodling around and everything just started to come together. The sequencing is basically 2013 with a few minor tweaks. I am really looking forward to getting creative with the sequencing now that the gear and software can handle it.
@chris: never realized Sugar Plum was used in Tetris! Now that I think about, I am pretty sure my brothers and I played Super Mario all the way through the Tetris phase. I don't think we never even owned any other NES games...
@gary: You get it: I am totally less is more. My layout can be setup and broken down in like an hour or 2. That said, much time (beer) was invested in mounting, spacing, and controller layout. Sequences are 50ms timings. Truthfully, the timings have little to do with the precision. The key is a good beat track. I use LSP and can do this by clicking the mouse to the beat. I used to use vixen 2.0 and got the same precision with using the keyboard. The rainbow thing is a macro and there are a ton of things in LSP like it. Normally, macros like this were big bottlenecks and could not be outputted correctly until 2014. The northstar is actually mounted over a window but it is covered with coro (good eye) and was not really intentional, but the backlighting was.
@dmc: Do You Hear was MY personal favorite sequence. I used Amazon but just tried it and had issues too. Hopefully they get that fixed. I really like trying to find odd/obscure stuff. I think it adds to the impact. I hope you and others got the same thrill I did when I first heard it. You might not believe me, but I actually sequenced a 16 strand rgb mega tree for this one but never built it. You might notice the beginning of the sequence is kinda bare because of that. The tree is “snowing†during the piano intro, stops when “a star, a star†and then dances thought the first verse with the spots on…
@winwin: I used 5 floods. I did alot of testing and I think the best results I got were about 3' away from the house 45 degrees or so. No lenses on mine. The 2 on the ground are on 2' stands (huge improvement), the 2 on the second floor are nested in the gutters aimed toward windows slightly, and the last is inside the porch entrance facing the door. I spent some time tweaking them until I was happy. I think the 2nd floor aethers are about 4.5' from the house. If more time allowed I would fashion "barn doors" to better control the second floor. I would have to say the locations are obvious in the video starting around 0:36 You are not allowed to view links.
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@keith. I am honored! Really. I am stealing much about your mega so it's fair trade.
I also think it was you that opened my eyes to 180 degree elements and I ran with it. My minis are actually only 2d.
