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Fireworks 2000 -- by Mike North |
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A Simple and Free Fireworks Simulator for Pangolin's LD2000This page describes an experimental program
Mike North modified to project laser fireworks. Thanks goes to Guillaume Chouteau who provided the
original source code on codeproject that was used for the basis
of this project. The code is written in C# using the
Pangolin
LD2000 SDK. This is a fun program provided for free, so by downloading and using it you must agree to use it at your own risk. Mike North has had many people use it successfully, so chances are it will work for you too.
There are ten individual mortar controls at the bottom of the main control window. Each of these has individual settings for:
There are currently 10 different shell break patterns to choose from. You may change the selected pattern by clicking on the corresponding sample thumbnail image. Color is selected by clicking on the colored bar above the OK/Cancel buttons. Saving Custom Settings As you customize your mortars, you may save the current settings by clicking the "Save Current Settings as" button. To make a special name for the configuration, type a simple name in the textbox below the button. The example screen at the top shows three saved configurations of DEFAULT, MIKE, and RED WHITE BLUE. To bring up a saved configuration, just click on the name of the configuration file in the list. Auto Mode If you are like me, lighting the fuse on mortar shell after mortar shell can become a little tiresome. Fireworks 2000 has an "Auto Mode" to cure this. When in Auto mode, the program will launch shells of random color, pattern, height, and size. Just click the Auto radio button, sit back, and watch the show! The intensity (frequency of shots) may be scaled as well. Spanning Frames This option allows you to have the frames generated by the program to be written to the QM2000 card in sequence, instead of all to frame 1 as in previous versions. Turn this mode on by checking the "Scroll QM Frames" checkbox. This will allow you to open LD2000 (after generating some frames, but while Fireworks2000 is still running) to view/save the hundreds of programmatically generated frames.
View of the frame in LD2000 of the frame that was being written in the 1st screen picture above (frame 195)
If you do not wish to span frames, and would prefer a different default working frame other than frame 1, you have the option of un-checking the "Scroll QM Frames" checkbox, then specifying a frame number to the right of the "Set Work Frame" button. Choose the desired frame number, then click the "Set Work Frame" button. All frames generated by the program will now be directed to the specified working frame. You can download a zip file which contains the Fireworks 2000 program here. Note that this is only a zip file -- it is not an installer program. To use it, you will need to expand the zip file to an empty folder on your computer. Mike is a Software Engineer from Omaha, Nebraska. His past occupations also include college art student and avionics technician in the US Navy. The combination of art, electronics, and programming experience is what makes Mike thoroughly enjoy the hobby of building laser projectors and creating new laser applications using the LD2000 SDK. Mike goes by the user name mikkojay on Pangolin Laser Chat, so if you have any questions regarding this or any future projects, feel free to send him a message.
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This page last updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:21 PM
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