Hi All,
I'm embarking on a large pharos programming job. I'll probably throw a bunch of these out there over the next few weeks.
Here's my first conundrum. I've got 12 circuits of incandescent lights, uplighting a dome. 3 each in yellow, amber, red & blue. The designer is calling for the following:
- All circuits should be programmed for a fire flicker effect
- The flicker effect should have pronounced variation across the dome for a "rolling" fire.
- Blue should be aimed & programmed to be a higher intensity when red & orange are of lesser intensity to minimize any momentary purple or magenta colors.
I've got a few ideas for how to create a fire effect:
- Flicker group effect, applied to each dimmer independently, with slightly varying settings to create random flicker (the group effect causes all channels to flicker together when applied to a group)
- Sparkle group effect. This can be applied on a whole group level to all dimmers.
- Treat the 12 dimmers as a pixel matrix and run starfield on them.
The problem is that none of these allow me to control for the second condition listed above. Any ideas (besides spending hours writing a long, looping timeline of random intensities on the warm colors & fitting the blues in during the gaps, which could work, but could also take double digit programming hours, and wouldn't allow for a lot of adjustment once we get access to the site without spending hours adjusting the timeline).
Thanks,
Doug
