"Web interactivity"
Here is some info about the website interactivity on the 2009 tree provided by project personnel:
The Telecom Tree is a 7 story high interactive light sculpture that transports children's wishes to the Santa at the North Pole. The lighting system designed by David Eversfield and implemented by the team at opticshock uses LightFactory, ENTTEC ODEs and Datagates to achieve the interactivity.
Design your own Tree !
People that visit the tree planted on an inner city park in Auckland or on
the waterfront in Wellington, New Zealand can use one of the phone booths
around the base to ring Santa. The caller's voice modulates the brightness
of lights carrying the message out of the phonebooth and up the tree. David uses a Datagate with a cascading Art-net merge to link several different interactive features into one DMX [output which then goes to an input of] the GrandMA console and Hippotizer controlling the tree.
Good boys and girls keen to decorate their own tree for Santa can visit the
Telecom Tree website and design their own tree.
www.telecomtree.co.nz Once the light patterns have been selected and
dropped onto the virtual tree the online designer receives an email telling
them when their sequence will be displayed live on the Telecom Tree. People
then come along to watch their designs play back. For those who can't [attend in person] a photo is taken and emailed back to them.
The Back End
The key interaction between the website and the GrandMA/Hippotizer control
software was made possible by Lightfactory. The flexible scripting engine
allowed David to send the designs directly from the website to the tree
control software. Martin Searancke from Lightfactory implemented a few
additional variable commands to help smooth the process.
The control path is something like:
Flash-PHP-mySQL-LightFactory-Artnet-GrandMA-Artnet-Hippotizer-KiNET-CK LEDs
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