Definition
A daytime shell is built for a show in broad daylight, when the light of stars would be invisible. It relies on matter and opaque colour: thick coloured smoke, paper streamers and ribbons, confetti, small parachutes carrying a flag or a hanging smoke pot, balloons, or salutes for sound. It is fired from 75 to 150 mm like a night shell, with the same lift charge and delay, but its break releases a coloured cloud that drifts slowly for ten to thirty seconds. Daytime displays complement inaugurations, sports festivals and ceremonies; the smoke draws all the better in a clear sky with light wind. These shells remain category F4 and are declared like any other.
In practice, for the display company
A daytime display sells to clients who do not think “fireworks”: festival committees, sports clubs, inaugurations. In PyroDesk the file follows the same quote, declaration and firing-plan chain, with particular attention to wind, paper fallout and drifting parachutes; PyroSimulator in daytime mode renders the coloured smoke.