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Posted on 03/01/21 11:06:41 AM
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Gordon Bain if you haven't seen this you MUST! Everyone else too ......
Gordon - I am presuming that as a Scot and a drone user that you have seen Edinburgh's Hogmanay drone display.

If you haven't you MUST ! The rest of you too. It's just beautiful. Do watch all the flights because it just goes on getting better.

It's almost impossible not ask yourself 'How?'. My guess is a master drone programmed relative to base with 'child' drones programmed relative to it and each other. Although I suspect that has to be a simplification.

In the end it is so magical I am not sure if I care ............


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Posted on 03/01/21 11:20:58 AM
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Re: Gordon Bain if you haven't seen this you MUST! Everyone else too ......
I do know that, although it is performed and shot live, for safety reasons it was shot in the countryside over the mountains and then placed in post production over the cityscapes.

I really don't think it matters - it's so marvellous!

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Posted on 03/01/21 1:21:26 PM
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Re: Gordon Bain if you haven't seen this you MUST! Everyone else too ......
Beautiful David. I particularly like the deer running over the hillsides.

You might like to watch this bit of explanatory video as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOd4-T_p5fA

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Posted on 03/01/21 2:04:19 PM
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Re: Gordon Bain if you haven't seen this you MUST! Everyone else too ......
Thanks for the link Gordon. This implies two operators per drone.

That's an awful lot of people tramping around the Scottish higlands in the dark!

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Posted on 03/01/21 2:16:11 PM
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Re: Gordon Bain if you haven't seen this you MUST! Everyone else too ......
No, it's just two operators for the entire display with one of them as back up: the entire display is pre-programmed and requires no input once set in motion. All the operator does is press 'go' as far as I am aware then sits back with a hot coffee and monitors everything.

I can do something very similar with just my single drone where I can pre-programme a route using Google Maps and the drone will fly that route completely automatically and take images as it goes, be they video, stills or even time-lapse/hyperlapse. The route can be saved and re-flown both by day and night. The sequences can then be composited giving a day to night transition all with centimetric accuracy.

The difference with the Scottish video is that all the individual drones act as one but with reference to each other.

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Posted on 03/01/21 5:23:55 PM
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Re: Gordon Bain if you haven't seen this you MUST! Everyone else too ......
GKB wrote:
The difference with the Scottish video is that all the individual drones act as one but with reference to each other.


So actually my first guess wasn't far off the mark.

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Posted on 13/01/21 1:42:36 PM
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Glorious! Just amazing.
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