It seems that a lot of producers are using vendors to distribute their shows. Couldn't you get around the requirements by showing a couple of quotes from the ...
* LIPS = Live Interactive Planetarium Symposium, taking place August 9-11 in Bremerton, WA (near Seattle) Hi all, Just a reminder that the LIPS early...
Hi Everyone, Evans & Sutherland is now on Facebook, so please search for Evans & Sutherland to check out our new page. We will be posting astronomical tips...
The Orb Lounge is a relocatable, inflatable full-dome system which has a 7m projection dome and a 10m weather protection / multi-functional dome. As a way of...
I wonder if anyone on this list can advise on fisheye lens options for any of the 4K projectors, notably Barco, Sony, and JVC. This includes both full fisheye...
I am also interested in this. It's an interesting problem. -- Ron Proctor Sent from my iPod - Please excuse any spelling errors or half-baked ideas. === On Mar...
Hey, Is there such a thing as a master list of planetarium association conferences - and their dates? IPS site doesn't quite do it and going through each...
... Western Alliance Conference is in July. http://www.wacdomes.org/WAC2011.html And David, it isn't that far from you. Hope to see you there. -- Clear DARK...
Dear all planetarians :D , I'm preparing a presentation for this topic now included two solution details The Foundry Nuke and Adobe After effects , plus some...
Greetings Amr, Please explain more about your presentation. When and where are you presenting it? Having not done any 3D stereo, I am quite curious to hear the...
Hi all, Digitalis is excited to announce two new additions to our best-selling line of Digitarium digital planetarium systems: 1) The Digitarium Kappa projects...
Dear Jason , this is a presentation about my researches and tries for a standard workflow for 3d stereo planetarium production . using more than one software ...
... Good to see products being released for the new Projection Design F35 projector, both from Digitalis and Elumenati, others soon to follow. This is a very...
Hi, all. Loch Ness Productions is proud to announce the release of our tenth planetarium space music album, Geodesium "Stella Novus". There are nine gloriously...
We have been experimenting with new techniques for our star backgrounds. Our typical setup includes a camera with a fisheye lens shader. We have a sphere with...
Wow that sounds fantastic. Please keep us updated. What 3D toolset do you use? We are using Maya and I understand that is not the norm. I'm interested to hear...
Hi David, In every issue of the Planetarian, IPS publishes a "Planetarians Calendar of Events". This list all planetarium related conferences submitted to us...
The background starfield for pre-rendered fulldome has always been a challenge. There are two approaches we have used when needing a simple, yet accurate star...
Hello everybody I am Acoustics Engineer and that is a really difficult problem, because the room's shape is not regular and every receiver is placed in...
Intersting discussion, as I've been trying to find a solution for something similar recently. If you use Maya (or 3ds Max), you probably use mental ray. One...
... I suspect we need to use more precise language here, "3D stereo" means two different things, if you are an acoustics person then it means spatial audio,...
we use both 3d max and maya and even vue sometimes , i don't know specifically as my first concern is the VFX ;) ________________________________ From: Jason...
Hi all, Our Intro and Advanced Blender production workshops are coming up in June. We will be using Blender 2.5+, a free, open-source 3D software. Intro...
Interesting wish if it could be made to work directly in MR, but the issue doesn't end there. In the end, the rendered fulldome frames get sliced up and...
Hi, I need some help. I am looking for movies with arabic and french speaking contents. Does not need to be as the original voice. Is there a list out there...
It occurs to me that there are producers like you guys upthread who know what you're talking about regarding generating starfields, and then a goodly number of...