The canal turned New York City into a great metropolis and transformed Buffalo into a centre of commodities trading, as evidenced by the proliferation of grain elevators that lined its canal side. Although Buffalo's grain trading days have long since receded into history, one remnant of its past, the Connecting Terminal Grain Elevator, has taken on new life as a popular attraction, thanks to an ever-changing lightshow that draws on the color mixing prowess of the Ilumipod 54g2 IP from Chauvet's Iluminarc division.
Described by The Buffalo News as a "kaleidoscope of illuminated colours and patterns", the 40-minute lightshow, which was designed by Ambient Design Production, runs daily from dusk to 11 pm. An impressive collection of fixtures was used to turn the four-football-field long and 100' high grain elevator into a majestic light sculpture. Among them are 10 moving fixtures used to project patterns on the fa
