High-tech fireworks – how high tech are they?

With the world developing at such a rapid pace, it comes to us as no big surprise that the way we celebrate important events are also changing at the same rate. Computer programs are being integrated with everything – even fireworks. Guy Fawkes’ day is not the same anymore with such phenomenal displays of fireworks in the sky all controlled and triggered by computer programs. Now that programming controls the world of fireworks, nobody restricts fireworks celebrations to just important holidays; it is even extended to the whole summer season. The era of cheap fireworks has passed paving way for intelligent fireworks.

The US is understandably the first country to introduce computer programs in fireworks and not surprisingly California was the first to introduce this because the recession has admittedly left a few software companies bankrupt. With technology, crackers and evenindoor fireworks have not only been effectively choreographed to go off at particular times making patterns in the sky, they even synchronize themselves with each other. These computer programs have even incorporated soundtracks with this extravagant display of fireworks. The people who watch these shows feel that they are not just watching fireworks, but a live special effects screening. Except for sparklers and Roman candles , every other cracker can be incorporated with codes, even rockets .

There are many manufacturers which work round the year to provide an amazingly choreographed display with effects that could beat the ones people saw the year before. They work round the clock creating pyrotechnics, adding LASER beams to it, working on chunks of computer codes and adding soundtracks to it. While they work on Christmas crackers and fireworks for Guy Fawkes’ day, they handle individual clients too, creating wedding fireworks for special days. These pyro-technicians have websites that even allow you to buy fireworks online and place custom orders from these sites that offer fireworks for sale.

The blend of pyrotechnics with computer programs and digital sound effects remains one complicated concoction a layman would have never dreamed of. Though technology is drilling its way through everything, there are still fireworks display artists who use traditional approaches and draw a crowd but it is only a question of time before we have these artists embracing the latest technologies.