100 dancing drones set a new and one of a kind world record: incredible light show
2015 was the year in which unmanned aerial vehicles became widespread, so wide that some inquisitive and creative people began to find more and more widespread use for them.
Specifically, Intel's CEO, Brian Krzanich, asked Perceptual Computing Marketing Director Anil Nanduri what is he going to do with a hundred flying drones? He wanted Naduri to find a way to expand the boundaries and show people a new exciting way to use drones.
Nanduri assigned this challenge to a small group of artists and technology researchers from Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria. The team quickly created a street light show of 100 flying drones, with built-in LED lights, through which 3D light figures were formed in the air, and this entire complex system syncopated an orchestra performing classical music.
When the video, recorded 2 months ago, was first shown at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2016 in Las Vegas (January 5-8), Pravin Patel, a judge at the Guinness Book of Records, said it was likely that drones will replace traditional fireworks shows in the future, because they are much safer than pyrotechnic shows.
The show itself took place at the beginning of November 2015, at Flugplatz Ahrenlohe, Tornesch, near Hamburg, in Germany. Unconfirmed sources say that this is not the first such method of using drones, a similar project was previously implemented by the ARSENL laboratory, but then only 50 drones were used at a time.
We decided to check this information. It turned out that the popular news portal somewhat misinformed its readers, then 50 drones were launched at the same time, but it was not a light show at all and not multicopters, but drones controlled simultaneously by a computer, in other words, an absolutely dissimilar project, but of course also incredibly cool and for sure you will be interested to know more about him:
It is sad that employees of large media outlets are often less educated and enlightened than readers and authors of geektimes. Conclusion - information should always be double-checked and often read Geektimes :). Of course, even authoritative publications can make mistakes, but in this case it is a banal laziness of the editor who did not check the published information. Although, of course, in a thousandth approximation, the projects can be called similar.
But back to the topic. It is interesting to know the details of the project, they are most clearly described, perhaps, in this video:
To transform ideas into reality, Horst Hoertner, Executive Director of Futurelab, focuses on the future.
“This (future) is the only thing that can be created. The rest has already been created. Hope and curiosity are forces that help you do things that no one has ever done before, ”he says.
Hoertner, and his team of 15 people, came up with the name drones - “spaxels”, formed by the merger of the two words “space pixels”, which means “cosmic pixels”. He says that he wanted to show how drones, which are known to many as weapons, can be used to create a beautiful and socially significant event.
4 pilots, under the direction of Martin Mort, controlled 25 drones each, during their take-off from the football field in Hamburg.
But before the drones could take off from the field, the engineers created software that allows each dron to follow a specific flight route, turn on and off the lights (lights) and move in the air synchronously and quite close to other drones. And all this while the orchestra performed the “theme of fate” from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
“We developed our own ground-based control software,” said Andreas Jalsovec of Futurelab, who was involved in the choreography and design of the Drone 100 show.
He describes animation software that requires tremendous processing power and translates its outline into 3D models for determining the exact position of each of the drones during flight.
Intel's goal was to combine curiosity with innovation and demonstrate the capabilities of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), said Natalie Cheung, a member of the Nanduri team.
“We work with civil aviation to understand policies, norms and restrictions, and make sure drones are safe and we can do light shows like this,” Cheng says.
It is worth noting that in November, Nanduri led the first demonstration of drones at the US Capitol building in order to influence the security policy associated with the use of UAVs, which now introduces many restrictions.
“Regulators have real questions and concerns, but how can we industry representatives convince them to help solve these problems by working with organizations such as the FAA and NASA,” said Nanduri, who ultimately advocates for a single standard world rules.
Nanduri says the Drone 100 project was implemented in a private, sheltered area. Spectators watched the action from a safe distance. “The framework was determined by regulatory authorities so that they were confident in complete safety and gave the go-ahead for flying at night,” he says.
The FAA takes security very seriously, because large companies such as Intel are entrusted with the need to demonstrate that these technologies bring new opportunities and economic benefits.
“We want the US to become a leader in defining this framework into which we can integrate these new technologies,” said Nanduri.
Confidentiality is a common concern of many, but the guys at Futurelab want to show that drones are far from always keeping track of people. On the contrary, people can observe drones as a work of art, a means of communication, or an instrument in research.
Hoertner considers people to be curious by nature and full of hope, and his team fills the Drone 100 project with these qualities.
“This driving force in each of us, it forces us to do things that some would call insanity, and others amazing,” he says. Hoertner said the Drone 100 is an example of combining art, technology and society to showcase new opportunities. Nanduri says this is the beginning of a new era for UAVs.
“Now they receive human feelings, thanks to which they can see and respond more intellectually, deliberately, to obstacles in their environment. This opens up new, creative ways to use UAVs. ”
It is worth noting that the idea with the logo at the end is magical, and I, as a marketer in particular, just trudge on this idea:
How much did you like this idea?
By tradition, there is a bit of advertising in the basement, where it will not hurt anyone. We remind you that due to the fact that the total network capacity of the Dutch data center in which we provide services has reached 5 Tbps (58 points of presence, inclusion in 36 exchange points, in more than 20 countries and 4,213 peer-to-peer inclusions ), we offer dedicated servers for rent at incredibly low prices, only a week!
Specifically, Intel's CEO, Brian Krzanich, asked Perceptual Computing Marketing Director Anil Nanduri what is he going to do with a hundred flying drones? He wanted Naduri to find a way to expand the boundaries and show people a new exciting way to use drones.
Nanduri assigned this challenge to a small group of artists and technology researchers from Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria. The team quickly created a street light show of 100 flying drones, with built-in LED lights, through which 3D light figures were formed in the air, and this entire complex system syncopated an orchestra performing classical music.
When the video, recorded 2 months ago, was first shown at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2016 in Las Vegas (January 5-8), Pravin Patel, a judge at the Guinness Book of Records, said it was likely that drones will replace traditional fireworks shows in the future, because they are much safer than pyrotechnic shows.
The show itself took place at the beginning of November 2015, at Flugplatz Ahrenlohe, Tornesch, near Hamburg, in Germany. Unconfirmed sources say that this is not the first such method of using drones, a similar project was previously implemented by the ARSENL laboratory, but then only 50 drones were used at a time.
We decided to check this information. It turned out that the popular news portal somewhat misinformed its readers, then 50 drones were launched at the same time, but it was not a light show at all and not multicopters, but drones controlled simultaneously by a computer, in other words, an absolutely dissimilar project, but of course also incredibly cool and for sure you will be interested to know more about him:
It is sad that employees of large media outlets are often less educated and enlightened than readers and authors of geektimes. Conclusion - information should always be double-checked and often read Geektimes :). Of course, even authoritative publications can make mistakes, but in this case it is a banal laziness of the editor who did not check the published information. Although, of course, in a thousandth approximation, the projects can be called similar.
But back to the topic. It is interesting to know the details of the project, they are most clearly described, perhaps, in this video:
To transform ideas into reality, Horst Hoertner, Executive Director of Futurelab, focuses on the future.
“This (future) is the only thing that can be created. The rest has already been created. Hope and curiosity are forces that help you do things that no one has ever done before, ”he says.
Hoertner, and his team of 15 people, came up with the name drones - “spaxels”, formed by the merger of the two words “space pixels”, which means “cosmic pixels”. He says that he wanted to show how drones, which are known to many as weapons, can be used to create a beautiful and socially significant event.
4 pilots, under the direction of Martin Mort, controlled 25 drones each, during their take-off from the football field in Hamburg.
But before the drones could take off from the field, the engineers created software that allows each dron to follow a specific flight route, turn on and off the lights (lights) and move in the air synchronously and quite close to other drones. And all this while the orchestra performed the “theme of fate” from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
“We developed our own ground-based control software,” said Andreas Jalsovec of Futurelab, who was involved in the choreography and design of the Drone 100 show.
He describes animation software that requires tremendous processing power and translates its outline into 3D models for determining the exact position of each of the drones during flight.
Intel's goal was to combine curiosity with innovation and demonstrate the capabilities of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), said Natalie Cheung, a member of the Nanduri team.
“We work with civil aviation to understand policies, norms and restrictions, and make sure drones are safe and we can do light shows like this,” Cheng says.
It is worth noting that in November, Nanduri led the first demonstration of drones at the US Capitol building in order to influence the security policy associated with the use of UAVs, which now introduces many restrictions.
“Regulators have real questions and concerns, but how can we industry representatives convince them to help solve these problems by working with organizations such as the FAA and NASA,” said Nanduri, who ultimately advocates for a single standard world rules.
Nanduri says the Drone 100 project was implemented in a private, sheltered area. Spectators watched the action from a safe distance. “The framework was determined by regulatory authorities so that they were confident in complete safety and gave the go-ahead for flying at night,” he says.
The FAA takes security very seriously, because large companies such as Intel are entrusted with the need to demonstrate that these technologies bring new opportunities and economic benefits.
“We want the US to become a leader in defining this framework into which we can integrate these new technologies,” said Nanduri.
Confidentiality is a common concern of many, but the guys at Futurelab want to show that drones are far from always keeping track of people. On the contrary, people can observe drones as a work of art, a means of communication, or an instrument in research.
Hoertner considers people to be curious by nature and full of hope, and his team fills the Drone 100 project with these qualities.
“This driving force in each of us, it forces us to do things that some would call insanity, and others amazing,” he says. Hoertner said the Drone 100 is an example of combining art, technology and society to showcase new opportunities. Nanduri says this is the beginning of a new era for UAVs.
“Now they receive human feelings, thanks to which they can see and respond more intellectually, deliberately, to obstacles in their environment. This opens up new, creative ways to use UAVs. ”
It is worth noting that the idea with the logo at the end is magical, and I, as a marketer in particular, just trudge on this idea:
How much did you like this idea?
By tradition, there is a bit of advertising in the basement, where it will not hurt anyone. We remind you that due to the fact that the total network capacity of the Dutch data center in which we provide services has reached 5 Tbps (58 points of presence, inclusion in 36 exchange points, in more than 20 countries and 4,213 peer-to-peer inclusions ), we offer dedicated servers for rent at incredibly low prices, only a week!