Patrick, my suggestion: Shoot some 7+k fulldome time lapse content and do your tests at different speeds. The nature of the content should give you the amount...
Rob: As usual, your math is correct. However, as theater designers we need to separate the angular size of the pixel as measured from the center of the dome,...
Dynamic Earth is the result of a two-year collaboration between Spitz Creative Media, the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing...
Fulldome Standards Efforts The first Fulldome Standards Summit was held in 2004 in Valencia, Spain, resulting in a draft document for show exchange - including...
Hello All, I am planning to shoot timelapse and panoramic photography and want to know if any of you have any spots in Southern California that you recommend?...
Pursuant to Ed’s email, I just wanted to be clear about how to join the standards group on fulldome.org: 1. Go to the site; sign in (or sign up if you...
With the increased popularity of social networks, Home Run Pictures has begun to use its Facebook page as a primary outlet for displaying current work we are...
I reccomend anywhere in the Anza Borrego Desert State park. It is California's largest state park, and fairly easy to find places that do not show any signs of...
I just wanted everyone in the community to know about the process we used to create our brand new Full Dome Film Dinosaur Passage To Pangaea. We decided to...
That is pretty cool. Nice work. -- Ron Proctor Production Coordinator Ott Planetarium On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 14:37, nate smith <agelessnate@...> wrote: I...
Don't forget the annular eclipse coming up on May 20! It's late afternoon California time, and would make some great time-lapse shots if taken from a cool...
What better way to spend a Saturday morning? Bunny slippers, a hot cup of coffee, and the fulldome.org site open to the proposed standards page, awaiting your...
Here at the IMERSA Summit in Denver, Brad Thomson geeked out for one slide yesterday and reminded me of a point I wanted to make on this 8k topic. Basically,...
Re: bit-depth... I completely agree. Here at NSC Creative we also use a linear workflow, usually with OpenEXR half-float (16bit). EXR's are also incredibly...
I will agree with most of what is being said here from the producers viewpoint... taking in to account what current pipelines are capable of creating, what...
Here here to high bit-depth composites!! Perfect Little Planet is a series of firsts for us at the Clark Planetarium. The rendered layers are openEXR, though...
Recent news stories have shown a variety of dazzling eruptions and storms on the surface of the Sun. These dramatic and violent events are causing spectacular...
Hi, all. At the IMERSA conference last weekend, I gave what's become a quasi-annual presentation: my "State of the Dome" address. It's an overview of what...
Hi all; Just a cordial note that we've completed narration on script for Science Technology Network's overview of Virtual Reality technology for science and...
Dear Planetarians and Fulldomers, The Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena would like to invite you to the 6th FullDome Festival to be held in Jena, Germany from May 8 to...
The clock is ticking down to the end of the world, supposedly predicted by the Maya thousands of years ago. The Internet has over 1 billion pages devoted to...
Hi everyone, Even though our "Secret of the Cardboard Rocket" show continues to be one of the most popular programs out there for families and schools, we also...
The stills look great Mike. Looking forward to seeing this in the dome. Aaron Bradbury CG Supervisor - NSC creative National Space Centre, Exploration Drive,...
Greetings from Jena! the 6th FullDome Festival in Jena is approaching and so the deadlines for submitting data. This message shall remind you to send your...
For the last year or so, we have been experimenting with high frame rate production and playback, and have been loving the results. We have created a new web...
New from the Louisiana Art and Science Museum, HMNS and Rice: "We Choose Space", featuring fulldome imagery from the Rice fisheye lens on the ISS. Watch the...
LIPS 2012 is Coming!!!! In August 2011 around 35 planetarians committed to the tradition of Live Interactive Planetarium presentations gathered in Bremerton,...
Hi all, We have a conundrum. We are designing a new educator guide and there is some confusion. We have, for example, our live star talk. It is obviously a...