Hi Everyone, Here is an announcement about one of our new fulldome shows: For the first time people around the world will be able to experience the beauty,...
Dear Fulldome community, my names is Jonathan Cremieux and I am doing some research about the fulldome video medium as part of my master project at the...
... Jonathan: You mention that most fulldome theaters are still predominantly showing educational, astronomical material. This not just by choice as most of...
To a large degree I can understand the points that Jack Dunn has made. In the early days only Planetariums had domes and were limited by their protocol to...
Hello Jonathan, We use Blender exclusively for planetarium show production. We developed a fisheye render solution and we share it with the community through...
Hi Jonathan, Your research sounds interesting and is certainly timely. I'm Program Manager at the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT). Inspired by...
I have just learned of the death of artist and film maker Jordan Belson. He was a painter and especially film maker whose unique meditative abstract films were...
As a follow-up to the news about Belson’s passing, you might want to look at the Center for Visual Music website: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson/...
Just recently I have become aware of the works of Jordan Belson, I purchased a DVD of his work from the CVM just a couple of months ago. His work is beautiful....
For anyone interested in the historical significance of Jordan Belson's collaboration with Henry Jacobs for the Vortex performances in the history of...
I'd first like to thank all of you for your answers! I'll try to summarize what you've told me so far: Dome theaters being traditionally, and to this day,...
Very interesting thesis you are working upon. Thanks for sharing! It seems that the majority of fulldome theaters are for teaching in some aspect. The use of...
Congratulations Jonathan, your summary of the present technological & cultural state of fulldome theatres is, I believe, very accurate. It also perfectly...
Dear All: It is with great regret, that we inform the planetarium community of the death of Michael D, Sandras. Michael died Saturday evening, September 10th,...
Open source production isn't as crazy as one might think. Ott Planetarium has been using Blender exclusively since 2006. It is possible to achieve a very high...
... My comment to this discussion can be summed up with one phrase... "No one ever asked Michelangelo what paint brush he used to paint the Sistine Chapel...
Tom Casey Wrote: "No one ever asked Michelangelo what paint brush he used to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling." I like that. It sparked another analogy, if you...
Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to take a moment and invite you to re-visit our web site once more. It has been a very busy year for us and we have some...
Great points! This is fascinating discussion. What I failed to specify is that when I speak of open-source productions, I speak of being forced to use the...
Ron - thank you for sharing the fulldome tools you have made for Blender. I've been wanting to jump more into Blender to experiment w. Having access to a...
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Rob Spearman
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Sep 12, 2011 10:19 pm
Posted by: "j_cremieux" jonathan.cremieux@... j_cremieux What do you think about this idea? Some of producers are already following this path (see Ron...
... I agree. Our open source shows usually go pretty smooth, but it takes a significant organizational effort. Having everyone under different roofs would...
Hello, I'm a wildlife filmmaker developing a fulldome film project. Completely new to this fascinating medium, I have lots of questions and your input will...
I would love to hear what 4k video camera equipment you are using. Having done a fair amount of research it seems that the Red camera is the only true...
I thought I'd take a stab at this. I understand that the Canon 5D markII is not quite a full 30 fps at it's highest resolution capable. I have strayed from...
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Theo. A. Artz
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Sep 15, 2011 3:51 am
Jason, Just curious: If you are indeed planning on committing some time-lapse image capture, why the concern about DSLR video recording? Unless I'm missing ...
... The 4k RED is pretty much all you have that is within reasonable reach cost wise... everything else is extremely expensive. Paired with a Sigma or Nikon...
Hello Jason, The 5k would be the Red Epic ( which I have not purchased yet...) with a Canon fisheye lens 8-15mm The Canon 5D MarkII can do time lapse and...
