Hello Everyone, I wanted to let you know about some exciting new developments at E&S. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or would like...
Upon reading the E&S press release, I thought the group might be interested in knowing that Autodesk announced at Siggraph that you can now visually work in 3D...
Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. is excited to announce the Digitarium Epsilon digital planetarium system. The Epsilon projects a 1200 pixel diameter circle...
On the BBC home page today there is a question about whether the plural of stadium is "stadiums" or "stadia." The answer was that "stadia" refers to ancient...
Hi Michael, Thanks for the information. As we know the subject of 3D in a dome can get a little complex and I understand that you can't fully describe the ...
Is it possible to do the following? Load an image and have its initial location be at a set place on the dome (local coordinates). Then, later, move it to a...
sorry, folks. I meant to send this to the Digital Sky Academy. My mistake. --Phil...
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Sep 5, 2008 5:54 pm
It would be nice to know what the resolution of the LED Screen the Chinese used on the floor of the Olympic Stadium during opening exercises. My staff and I...
I've seen several systems, but none of the ones I've seen are close to the resolution you'd want in a planetarium dome. The highest resolution I know of is a...
What I've often thought about is the use of fibre optics. Imagine covering a dome with the ends of fibre optic cables. I haven't done any calculations as to...
I think you're on to something, Peter. The strands could be driven by a flat LED display (or several). That's better than deploying LEDs on the dome because...
Dear All, It seems many of us have entertained this thought (a dome filled with LEDs) at some time or the other. Please link to my March 2007 paper (presented...
Except you'd have to share the proceeds with Terence Murtagh. IIRC I heard him talk about the idea of a "projectionless" planetarium when he gave a keynote...
Nuts. At least buy me a nice dinner then. -- Ron Proctor Production Director Ott Planetarium - Weber State University weber.edu/planetarium 801.626.6871...
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Sep 8, 2008 7:58 pm
Is anyone out there using the full dome capabilities for any sort of research? I'm thinking of things like physiology, balance, motion, perception etc. Some...
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Sep 8, 2008 9:30 pm
We, at the University of Plymouth (UK) are... I presented a paper in Chicago on some of the areas we're looking at. Pete...
Like many of you have mentioned, using LED's on the dome has been a topic of conversation for quite some time now. Just for grins and giggles, I did some...
... Regarding some sort of active dome screen, go back and read the novel version of "2010" right at the first chapter. Arthur C. Clarke was ahead of his...
Thank you for enlisting me! The Arges County Museum from Romania, Europe, just started digital planetarium shows using a digital planetarium made by RSA Cosmos...
One thing to remember is that although LEDs are relatively low-energy, putting a bunch of them on a dome becomes a bit of a heat issue. So unless you want to...
Did you take into account that you need more than one LED for each pixel of rez? On Sep 8, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Mike Murray wrote: That's 50 million holes total....
And don't we still need holes across the dome surface between all these LEDs and then there's the weight considerations... this entire idea sounds like much...
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Sep 16, 2008 4:06 am
150 million LED's! Even with a hefty discount we're talking about a pretty expensive display. Multiple wires per LED, the cost of installation would be...
Hello All, I have been reading with much interest this thread on a LED dome. For someone like me with all most no budget and working on my own, totally...
5th European Conference of Small and Portable Planetariums 3rd Announcement Navegar Foundation and the Center for Astrophyics of Porto University are pleased...
The ZKP3 Star Projector used at Stardome Observatory in Auckland New Zealand is approximately 10 years old and has been well maintained. The projector was...
