Hi everyone, I am happy to announce the opening of a new original show from Clark Planetarium Productions! "Saturn: Jewel of the Heavens" takes actual imagery...
Navegar Foundation would like to invite all to participate and attend the Immersive Film Festival, to be held at Centro Multimeios Espinho, Portugal, in April...
Hi All, The Bella Gaia 2009-2010 world tour is now actively booking shows at digital planetariums and HD flat-screen theaters. BELLA GAIA (Beautiful Earth) is...
Message for Antonio Pedrosa: Is it still possible to apply for a presentation of our new show and/or some trailers ?!If so,what would be the conditions ? ...
http://magazine.creativecow.net/pdf_issues/12th_Issue_spread_edition.pdf It is a PDF download, but it is pretty small and the article by John Galt is great....
Jon: An excellent and thought-provoking article by John Galt, which raises a lot of the same issues that need to be applied to Fulldome. When it comes to the...
Hello there, I would like to write something on "planetarium role in education". Need some idea. I need this for justification to the institution on the...
Hello All, Here is a quick update on Two Small Pieces of Glass planetarium program for IYA. This program is being produced by Imiloa Astronomy Center, Buhl ...
Dear Hamka, I am not sure that this will be helpful to you, but we know that around the world educators are coming back to the need for the basic subjects of...
... Our planetarium fulfills several roles in education. For Physics majors, we use it to run Stellarium, so they can learn astronomical observation. Other...
This is kind of off topic - but I've thought for quite a while that with the relative ease of digital production and the availability of tools (either realtime...
I don't think your comment is off subject at all. Cosmodome sales are mainly directed to the smaller and mobile end of the market and this largely means...
Hi Andy and all, the work of students in fulldome format is just amazing. At the yearly FullDome Festival in Jena we have seen creative and quite original...
Hello all, We are close to opening our newly renovated theater and have been working hard on creating our first fulldome show. Today, we got our first chance...
It always depends on your equipment, but here are some things that work for us. Hardware: Make sure your projector is properly configured. There are settings...
It might help to have a bit more information. What is the set-up you have in the theater? Can you post a still frame from the show? In the theater, depending...
On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Jason Dorfman wrote: We are wondering if anyone has some great suggestions for adjusting settings, i.e. brightness, contrast, etc,...
Hi all, One trick I've used in the past to bring out the details and improve the overall brightness is to adjust the high end of the tonal range using "curves"...
Jason, I would say your lament is THE #1 disappointment I run into working in fulldome. Things looks great on your desktop monitors -- especially if you've...
Good morning Jason. While I will assume you have a newer set of projectors, I would like to pass on a short story of what has happened in our dome. We are...
Jason, After many years in the dome business, I feel your pain. 8-) Domes are in many ways a *new medium* and you have to adjust your thinking accordingly. You...
The eternal battle, if only those elusive Fulldome standards could be formalised and ratified and implemented across the board! A compromise would be to have a...
Jason, I join the ranks of those that sympathize with you. I agree with everything said in this thread (adjusting the projectors, high end curve, and...
Hi Jason, Well it seems you have some really good advice already, so I'll try not to repeat what has been discussed so far. A couple of things you can do is...
(And all this time I thought this was just our problem!) Like everyone else here, we've experienced full dome issues. We bought a wonderful projector (Optoma...
At a Red camera seminar today in Vancouver and listen to VFX producers of Sanctuary describe their workflow for red in 2k on FCP. Also saw a promising demo of...
... For those using Macs for playback, you will be pleasantly surprised if you perform a colour calibration ... see the display preferences. I suggest...
First off I just want to thank everyone for all the helpful support they offer to each other. As we're just about to wrap up our first Production, the...
