This message attempts to answer some questions that occasionally come my way and to keep everybody on the same electronic page. We're up to 139 members now,...
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Michel Hommel
hommel@...
Mar 5, 2003 12:10 am
A very special test Last month the Artis Planetarium in Amsterdam was the scene of a very interesting fulldome test. First the facts about our dome: we have a...
Fulldome Folks, A heads-up on a full summer program at the LodeStar Astronomy Center: In association with the Flicks on 66 film festival, LodeStar will host...
Hi All, Our SIGGRAPH 2003 course entitled "Computer Graphics for Large-Scale Immersive Theaters" will be presented on Monday, July 28th in San Diego, CA (see...
Mickey Schmidt's request comes timely after acceptance of Ed Lantz's (Spitz) SIGGRAPH course on fulldome production ...
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Michael V. Magee
mvmagee@...
Mar 24, 2003 11:01 pm
Hi Full-domers, Has anyone assembled a list of content providers for full-dome theaters and applications? This would include vendors who sell full-dome systems...
Michael Magee asked: "Has anyone assembled a list of content providers for full-dome theaters and applications?" And I figured I'd take a stab at answering. ...
Ryan's list is a good start. Having just returned from a mini-grand tour of immersive video theaters (AMNH included), I can say that there are several new,...
Hi all, In addition to Ryan's list, I would add: *Starlight Productions http://www.starlight-prod.com/ There are several new titles available from Evans &...
Hi all, I forgot to mention all our Real-Time Interactive shows available for Digistar 3: + Crack the Cosmic Code + Cyber Explorer + BodyWorks In addition,...
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Scott Miller
Scott.Miller@...
Mar 26, 2003 12:58 am
A group of us here at the University of Louisville are embarking on show production with our first release due this April called "Castles to the Sky". It...
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Carolyn Sumners
csumners@...
Mar 26, 2003 3:38 pm
Full dome content should include shows that have multi-media interludes combined with full-dome scenes. The most popular "full dome" show in Houston has been...
I have to take issue with several of Carolyn's comments, and I'm afraid some of my eye-rolling may have crept into the following prose. Carolyn used to be my...
then of course, there are we folks in Albuquerque producing all sorts of lovely little art shorts, student experiments, as well as beautiful short pieces for...
A comment from the peanut gallery (i.e. someone who doesn't have full dome capability yet): IMO, "full dome" programs are those which cannot be effectively...
Carolyn & Ryan (as dangerous a duo as a dome will ever see) bring an interesting point to the table. At LodeStar, we explore fulldome from a wonderful...
It's ironic that someone had to bring up slide projectors in order to get the discussion going. I think everyone's comments so far have been good. I would like...
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Carolyn Sumners
csumners@...
Mar 28, 2003 12:15 am
Hello all Sometimes I need to speak more clearly. I'm thrilled to say good-bye to slide projectors - something that both the D3 and SkySkan's Digital Sky allow...
Hi, all. Just to be completely accurate regarding the inclusion of Loch Ness Productions in the list of fulldome content providers... Our initial forays into...
... Yes, in essence exactly <g>. That's what we did, for instance; take the dome masters I created for the ending of "MarsQuest" in our IPS demo. I started...
... Ryan, is your point that 2D still frame images or even conventional planetarium all-skies and pans "pale in comparison" when put up against/with 3D 30fps...
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J. Scott Miller
Scott.Miller@...
Mar 28, 2003 7:07 pm
... Oh, I don't know. I have done it and gotten positive feedback from those who turned in written responses - noone mentioned "jarring" or "out-of-context"...
Hi all... I have been reading the thread about the multi-media approach and thought I would toss in an angle of my own. Even though Home Run's content has...
... To have qualified my statement a little more, I should have written, "The *potential* problem with multi-media sequences..." To my mind, whether the still...
I like Ryan's comment of keeping it 3D... yes, and it's because it's our primary tools here at Home Run Pictures... but I thought I would add one more thought...
... If he hasn't already Ryan will no doubt add his voice to this thread, but let me jump back into the fray from my simplistic storytelling POV. I see (and...
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Brad Thompson
bthompson@...
Mar 29, 2003 12:29 am
Hello all, In response to the 2-D vs. 3-D discussion going on here, I think we may be getting a bit hung up on vocabulary. In my mind, it's not the...
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Todd Slisher
TSlisher@...
Mar 29, 2003 10:09 pm
Just to put in a comment from a dome that doesn't (YET) have a full dome video system. We've effectively taken Carolyn's "Night of the Titanic" program which...
Folks, I want to comment on volumetrics, editing and Hollywood. The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket (SCR) is now complete. In this show, we have designed cut...
