... Can I suggest you subscribe and post to the "small_planetarium" group, there are many more people there dealing with spherical mirrors and low cost systems...
Dear Planetarium and Fulldome friends, we are happy to announce to most comprehensive FullDome Festival ever. 2010 will already be the 4th edition of the...
Sorry for a bad typing error in the FullDome Festival agenda posted recently. The full-length feature show scheduled for Wednesday, May 5 is called "Tales of...
Bradenton, Florida – February 5, 2010 In an effort to help fulldome digital theaters operating at 1024 resolution, GeoGraphics Imaging is pleased to announce...
Hi All, I am often asked what is the best application or plug-in for spherical compositing. I've yet to see a good comparison between these products. If you...
I'm looking for a negative pressure dome surface for digital fulldome projection (single projector and fisheye lens), in the region of between 5 to 7m...
Paul, We have a series of lightweight off-the-shelf and custom negative pressure systems. Happy to chat off-list about it... cheers, david ... david mcconville...
At Lawrence Hall of Science, we got a negative pressure dome from Pacific Dome http://www.pacificdomes.com/ It was a 9m dome, but they can make any size. Tell...
Hi everybody, A few weeks ago I announced a new adventure show coming from Clark Planetarium Productions, and so I thought I would give you an update. The ...
Hi all! There is a lot of tracking and jitter stabilization software on the market, but many/most/all do not work for 180° fisheye imagery. I am looking for a...
Hi everyone, I just joined the group in hopes to learn more about fulldome production & post-production. I have a corporate client who wants to do 2D (and...
We use Blender on Mac for all of our productions and we also teach a class on how to use it: weber.edu/planetarium/training . Welcome to the group and let me...
Hi Everyone, E&S is pleased to annouce the official release of Digistar 4. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. All the best, Michael ...
The reason Tom is having trouble with stabilization on a fisheye frame is that the rate of "optic flow" across an equidistant polar frame varies across the...
Our experience in this area has been similar and a solution is not very likely, unfortunately. As Ed describes, the issue has to do with the concept that each...
For those interested perhaps in the history fulldome imagery, there is a full hemispherical dome in Istanbul called "Panorama 1453". It depicts the conquest of...
I am in Bursa near Istanbul. I have visited there last year.Like you said it is perfect and wonderful. For detailed search to this panoramic place you can...
Stunning! Thanks Paul. Every war-themed painted panorama I've seen documented has been cylindrical. According the web site (http://www.panoramikmuze.com) this...
The Ott Planetarium is pleased to announce the release of "Clockwork Skies," our second open source planetarium show. The show was produced with Blender, a...
finally got the first major fulldome show out of the way. learned a lot on the way and managed to cheat some of the more difficult shots liek 100 drummers...
Hi everyone I am still in the learning process of creating fulldome content for our planetarium using After Efects CS4. I am having particular problems when it...
Greetings Zeeshaan, Can you be a bit more specific about the problem? Is it the sheer size of the images, or something else? If it's the image/file size, you...
Zeeshaan, When importing large images into Aftereffects. Make sure you import the files 5000 to 10000 at a time. Any larger batch might freeze the program....
Well done! Well done! That's something to be proud of! -- Ron Proctor Producton Coordinator Ott Planetarium - Weber State University weber.edu/planetarium Sent...
Congratulations - looks like a very cool project. I'd love to hear a bit about the production pipeline and also the projection system you used.... Thanks! andy...
We've had some similar issues. Unfortunately Aftereffects is still a 32 bit program. That means it has a low memory limit (3GB). We've noticed it has memory...
