Grand Haven Musical Fountains- Standing in Motion

A behind the scenes look at how the Grand Haven Musical Fountains are programmed!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Grand
• Haven
• Musical
• Fountain
• ACP
• Entertainment
• Ryan
• Strayhorn

[JonasClark]

How do you manage what I see, where (for example, near the end) you don't appear to be jumping lights around, but rather actually switching entire Cakes on and off with the lights - as I don't see shadows of the unlit (gray) Cakes in front of the Curtain?

[ChristLights]

good question. the back curtain is on, and all of the cakes are on as well, the camera just has terrible quality. The cakes arn't moving, just the lights.

[JonasClark]

@ChristLights Okay, it just hit me: at the end, you're using the front and not the back curtain! When formations aren't lit and the back curtain is up and lit, one sees shadows on the programmer - the front curtain is made up of open segments, but it's opaque enough to hide the shadows of the unlit cakes and it doesn't itself show single light groups, as its indication stays a uniform color.