New Upgrade of Visual Show Director 8.3.4 and PyroCreator 4D Order Now! and Get your Free PyroCreator 4D+FxGenerator 21 Easy Ways to Work Smarter, Not Longer Working insanely long hours is doing you more harm than good. It’s time to distance yourself from the cult of overwork–here’s how. The 18 new features of the new […]
By Dyani Sabin on June 27, 2017 Filed Under Animation, Design & Physics Next year, fireworks could be ignited by robots based on musical cues set in the sophisticated design software that has changed the Fourth of July. “Now we are working on connecting to robots,” Alberto Navarro, director Infinity Visions, a firework show design […]
While pyrotechnics may be imagined and installed by human beings, the design and execution of the Space Needle’s New Year’s fireworks extravaganza in Seattle spends most of its life inside a computer. Alberto Navarro, architect of the Space Needle fireworks show. (Credit: Infinity Visions.) Well ahead of the New Year’s show, Alberto Navarro, the architect […]
Design It Onscreen Forget flares and cord fuses. Top firework-show designers use electronic igniters to trigger detonation. The latest hardware meshes perfectly with software. New this year from Infinity Vision of Bellevue, Washington, is Visual Show Director 4D (the fourth D is time), a WYSIWYG program with OpenGL runtime that allows designers to choreograph, score, […]
Welcome to the companion Web site to “Fireworks!,” originally broadcast on January 29, 2002. This explosive NOVA presents the colorful history of pyrotechnics and reveals how hi-tech firing systems are transforming public displays into a dazzling, split-second science. Here’s what you’ll find online: Name That Shell Watch video clips of fireworks bursting in air and […]
