Diana, Such things are and have been done; they're not so rare as you seem to imply in the history of planetarium presentations. Of course there are concerts...
1503
Matt Linke
omegasubn
May 12, 2007 6:46 pm
Hi, We aren't even installed yet and we have artists and, gulp, a football coach who want to utilize the technology! Matt Linke Exhibit Museum Planetarium...
1504
omegasubn
May 12, 2007 11:04 pm
Hi all, We have a popular birthday show that we add to our Space Birthday parties here at the Museum. I was asked to re-create that for the all dome...
1505
Mark C. Petersen
marklnp
May 14, 2007 6:57 pm
Hi, Matt. In the Loch Ness Productions fulldome show "Sky Quest", our protagonist relates the story that started her on her career as an astronomer -- her...
1506
Raymond Worthy
stargazerplan
May 14, 2007 6:59 pm
Hi everyone, A few years ago now, a lady hired an inflatable dome from me and went on a tour playing her cello. She had an electronic gadget which projected...
1507
Pol
polturrents
May 14, 2007 10:45 pm
I was wondering about shooting real image for a fulldome. A 8mm lens (easy to find) in super35mm, scanned at 4k is not enough wide to full cover the dome. so....
1508
Michael Narlock
mjnarlock
May 15, 2007 12:55 am
You know, I'd like to know how DMNH did the video sequence for their Black Holes show. Any ideas? I think there was an article about such things in the last...
1509
Ryan
myowncompass
May 15, 2007 5:46 pm
Whatever the technical solution turns out to be, the camera needs to be equipped with a steady-cam or similar. When those little movements from handheld use...
1510
Tom Kwasnitschka
kwasnitschka
May 15, 2007 5:48 pm
When we were shooting fulldome on 35mm, we adapted the image circle of our 6mm lens to a width of about 16.5mm which is just a bit less than the height of an...
1511
Oliver Collier
olliecollier
May 15, 2007 5:48 pm
Hello FullDomers! I am normally a lurker, but currently have cause to rise my head above the passive depths. We at Pufferfish are looking to employ three new ...
1512
michaelmsmail
May 15, 2007 5:50 pm
... Thanks to the Digital Universe plugin, yes, they are! -Mike Mike Smail Planetarium Producer LASM - Pennington Planetarium 225.344.5272 x145...
1513
Inna Leonov
immiep
May 15, 2007 5:56 pm
Hey Mike! That scene in QuickTime was made from old test footage. I found the bad frame and the equivalent frame is fine in both the hirez clip and the...
1514
Sharon Shanks
sharon.shanks
May 15, 2007 5:59 pm
Mike at Cranbrook is correct - there's a detailed article in the March Planetarian about shooting live action for fulldome. And there's another article - about...
1515
david mcconville
elumenati
May 15, 2007 6:36 pm
i've experienced exactly the *opposite* - the narrower the FOV, the more a steadycam is required, and vice versa. in my experience, the extremely wide FOV of...
1516
Kris McCall
krismccall@...
May 22, 2007 5:07 pm
Has anyone come up with a guideline for minimum font size for fulldome production, especially as it applies to 1K x 1K systems? Are there other caveats as far...
1517
aj_epstein
May 22, 2007 5:08 pm
There is a media/arts/performance collective in the Netherlands called Pipslab. They do a lot of really inspired and wacky multimedia immersive events. As an...
1518
star2_watch
May 22, 2007 7:21 pm
Hello, My name is Michael Prokosch, new group member. I work for the Sam Houston State University Physics Dept and recently have been asked to host the public...
1519
kdconod
May 22, 2007 10:39 pm
... Errr...at the risk of being painfully obvious - have you contacted Minolta? IIRC That site you're looking at is run by Minolta... Kevin Conod ...
1520
Philip Groce
philipgroce
May 22, 2007 10:41 pm
Kris: As you recall in the old days of slides, the rule of thumb was "if you hold the slide out at arms length and you can't read the words, then the words too...
1521
Ryan Wyatt
ryan_j_wyatt
May 23, 2007 1:20 am
[Moderator's note. I'm posting the following for Phil Groce because I inadvertently waylaid the message. My apologies for the delayed response; it's my...
1522
Mike Murray
astrofreak57
May 24, 2007 12:40 am
Greetings from the cool crisp Rockies, Many of you know about or attended the Digital Video Theatre Content Development and Partnerships Symposium in Edmonton,...
1523
Ed Lantz
elantz33
May 24, 2007 10:00 pm
Hi All, I'm preparing an invited paper for the upcoming Emerging Display Technology conference (http://www.edt2007.org <http://www.edt2007.org/> ) to be held ...
1524
Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
May 25, 2007 5:51 pm
FYI- Due to some recent technical issues in Maya software during rendering of a fulldome scene that just refused to render, the need for a simple solution to...
1525
Sharon Shanks
sharon.shanks
May 25, 2007 8:26 pm
Guess my subject says it all - does anyone know of anyone working on climate change and/or electromagnetic spectrum for full dome? Thanks! Sharon Shanks Ward...
1526
Michael Magee
mvmagee@...
May 25, 2007 9:15 pm
Hi all, I thought some of you might find this web site interesting. Once on the site select the "Technology" tab and look for the video called "Video ...
1527
david mcconville
elumenati
May 25, 2007 9:19 pm
Sharon, The Elumenati also made a short fulldome production last year for ASTC and AGU with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, MN Planetarium, and NOAA's...
1528
Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
May 26, 2007 1:06 pm
The NASA Immersive Earth "Dinosaur Prophecy" show is about climate change... the dinosaurs being used as an example of how climate change affects life......
1529
Patricia Reiff
patriciareiff
May 26, 2007 4:52 pm
Thanks for the plug, Tom. (Of course, Tom did the graphics so he knows about the show!) You can download a full (but small pixel size) version of many of our ...
1530
Mark Aldred
maldred1234
May 28, 2007 9:34 am
Hi Sharon I have an EM show in production. There's no schedule for completion, but I'm hoping to have most of it done by the end of this year. It's still at...
1531
Hue Walker Bumgarner-...
huewalker
May 29, 2007 4:24 pm
we at LodeStar/ARTS Lab are using a LOT of Maya for fulldome... and it is the main app we use to teach students to do dome work (along with After Effects)... ...
