Hi All, Someone from Acuity will provide a write up on the Birds of a Feather Meeting. The response has been much better than I expected. In some unrelated...
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david mcconville
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Aug 2, 2004 6:14 pm
At DomeFest this year a number of us content developers and theater operators discussed the need to create a user-centric vendor-neutral fulldome community...
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Michael V. Magee
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Aug 2, 2004 8:22 pm
Hi All, I was reading David Mcconville's posting and it got me to thinking. I'm in the process of developing plans for building a new planetarium as part of...
My apologies, BTW, for messing up the subject on Michael Magee's posting. I changed it to say "Fulldome Primer" in lieu of Dave McConville's "Fulldome user...
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Brad Thompson
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Aug 2, 2004 9:46 pm
Hello all, In response to Micheal Magee's request for a links page, I'd like to remind everyone about http://extranet.spitzinc.com . We set this page up as...
... Some may disagree, others find this painfully redundant, but as one who has produced perhaps as much fulldome content as anyone I would like to toss in ...
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david mcconville
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Aug 3, 2004 5:04 am
I wholeheartedly agree with Don's recommendations. Of the fulldome theaters I've visited, the 20-25 degree tilted screens with unidirectional systems are by...
It's great to hear the excitement of David, Don and others. The talent attracted to this growing field is astounding. Let's keep the momentum going! At the...
... Unless there is related material to show on a dome, I don't think physically travelling to a single location is necessarily the best or most economic way...
... It's great that you're interested, Don (Aaran, too - thanks). I loved your DomeFest piece, Don! ... I agree that we can work as a team remotely. But I...
Ouch! Although I agree almost entirely with what Don and Dave are saying, there is one major issue to remember... the astronomy orientated planetariums...
... I may be in a position to design a theater in the next couple of years. It'd have a traditional star projector in the middle (we'd move it from our current...
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david mcconville
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Aug 3, 2004 9:51 pm
Tom, You are absolutely right that content production should stop being treated as a bastard child, and doubt that anyone on this list would disagree. Many of...
Hello I am a private individual, and probably just the sort of person you don't want to hear from. I am one of the individuals who is trying to figure out how...
... On one end of the spectrum there are modern theaters such as the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute with a level dome and removable ...
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Schmidt Mickey D Civ ...
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Aug 3, 2004 9:56 pm
All, For what it is worth, in regards to dome tilt. I don't think thay suck. Let me be the first to say that I have no personal experience of producing a ...
... I'll have to say my feelings are edging somewhat towards this feeling as well... but not for some of the reasons mentioned here. My biggest concern is...
... Once upon a time, I railed against horizontal domes -- and concentric seating. A few people might recall my diatribe after sitting through sessions at IPS...
I did a lot of work before fighting for the dome we settled on: a 50 foot dome with a 9.5 degree tilt, tiered risers in the back 2/5ths of the theater (no...
... I beg to differ with you, Tom. It is not the dome design that allows/prevents folks to look around, it is the production (as you have alluded to). In...
... Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. We tend to compose more for the zenith, and horizon shots can be composed quite democratically. If 33% of the main...
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Grant.Nicholson@...
Aug 4, 2004 4:59 am
Folks, It seems to me that the reason for wanting a tilted dome is to bring the horizon line down to level with or below the natural sight line of the audience...
... Ahhh yes, there is always the zenith in a concentric theater. I recall the Laserium shows that used abstract imagery centered on the zenith. it didn't...
... Right... Which is like the initial Mars approach in "Search" (where we see only a limb of the planet), but then, once it becomes a full panorama, a...
I was being facetious re: tilted domes sucking, but my point was that steeply titled domes have some great practical disadvantages. A shallow tilt might be a...
To Kevin and the group: Tilt is good as long as you don't get crazy with it. I got hooked on planetariums 21 years ago at a 40 foot dome tilted 41 degrees!...
... Let's face it... what exactly is driving the fulldome world right now? It's not the educational aspect, it's not about art in whatever form, it's not...
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Schmidt Mickey D Civ ...
mickey.schmidt@...
Aug 4, 2004 6:51 pm
We wrestled with the problem of circular or concentric seating in the planetarium in the 1980's. The advantage: - Larger audiences, we could seat 300 people...
Hi all, Been browsing fulldome.org and the underlying CMS (content management system) and it looks really great! Definitely put me down to help out where...
Hola, DomeFest is very much about supporting experimentation, sharing works, and enhancing communication as this exciting medium (in its many configurations ...
