Grucci wins new Guinness record for fireworks flag

[displayfireworks1]

Bellport-based Fireworks by Grucci has officially claimed another world record, this time with a massive representation of an American flag dubbed the "largest pyrotechnic image" recorded.

Guinness World Records certified the record last week for the 600-foot-high by 900-foot-wide portrayal of an American flag, designed, engineered and displayed by Fireworks by Grucci in synchronized bursts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5narHaxq9_w
http://luckdragon.falcorweb.net/serve/24/image/al/SSS_JordinSparks_PixelBurstTM_FLAG.al.jpg
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Come on Pyrotecnico and Riccardo come up with something to top this.

[wizard7611]

What I don't understand is how you can master those heights on each shell.

[PyroManiacs]

one word... - Italians!

[PGH_Pyro]

one word : software

[wizard7611]

Software has nothing to do with the heights of the shells. All software can do is allow you to sequentially fire things.

[PGH_Pyro]

well that's what I was referring to ...

[wizard7611]

It also only show you what the actual flag would look like. All these guys did was change the positions of the racks and messed around with the lift.

[Westpapyro]

I'm pretty sure it's pixel burst technology developed by Grucci. A computer chip that determines break height.
Magic Fire. Yes, chips in each shell. The wires attach to the slat, then run inside the shell to the chip. The chip fires an ematch for the lift and simultaneously starts an internal clock which, when at the pre-programmed time, fires a second match placed inside the shell for perfect burst times.
Grucci website explanation.
http://www.grucci.com/main.html?pgid=4&art_artcl_id=80

[wizard7611]

How interesting.

[PyroManiacs]

Either way..... like I said, Italians! lololol

[PGH_Pyro]

are we waving ethnic flags now ?

[displayfireworks1]

That is a great link to the Grucci page that discusses how they did this effect. They cite terms "PixelBurst" and "G-Match" instead of fuse. When I search this terms I do see PixelBurst but it has nothing to do with fireworks. What exactly is a G-Match? Of course the G probably represents Grucci.
I am personally more impressed with how they did they year in numbers in the air rather than the American Flag. What I know about display fireworks is you are not going to stick a G-Match in regular fireworks and make this effect. I suspect these fireworks and made specifically for this flag effect and have to be set up in a certain sequence. They may be a series of cakes also.
While not the same effect but dramatic at the time was the Zambelli Rainbow effect on the Second Street Bridge in Louisville Kentucky for Thunder Over Louisville. I remember helping to set it up. It was a series of 10 to 12 cakes, each cake had the mortars progressively angled until the center cake went straight up. My guess is this is a similar product made for this flag effect. How they did the year in the air so perfectly I do not know.
http://luckdragon.falcorweb.net/serve/24/image/ak/BOPA-Flag3.ak.jpg

[PGH_Pyro]

the French holiday / Bastille Day, they did similar things with spelling out words and phrases and it was VERY clear / very tightly composed , the way the stars lit up at the right time . i posted that video, earlier in the year.