Dear Friends, ORBIT’s animation lab has been working for long on an animated sequence of the “Cassini-Huygens Mission”. As we have nearly reached the...
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david mcconville
bangneow
Mar 15, 2005 5:01 am
a cheap little something for you obsessive fulldomers: http://shop.lomography.com/fisheyecamera/ david...
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Jim Costigan
cosmo_sail
Mar 16, 2005 11:03 pm
PROJECT MANAGER Visual Acuity, Ltd. is a small international consulting firm specializing in the development, specification and acquisition of high end...
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Greg Downing
gregoryallan...
Mar 19, 2005 10:36 am
VR Mag just did an interesting story on the fulldome show I did a few weeks ago in the Denver full dome. The show was an interactive display of panoramas that...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Mar 21, 2005 8:07 pm
Hi all... we just updated our web page with case histories for the Earth's Wild Ride show... check it out... Tom http://www.hrpictures.com/2005 ... or go...
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david beining
dbeining
Mar 23, 2005 11:32 pm
Hola, A quick survey on sound. We've specified 48kHz (16-bit) audio to go with 29.97NDF video for DF05. We did the same last year with very challenging...
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Andy Hagerman
andyman@...
Mar 24, 2005 2:28 am
Greetings David and the rest of the Fulldome list! I feel your pain over the sample rate issue. The topic of digital audio sample rates is a pretty complex...
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Kris McCall
krismccall@...
Mar 24, 2005 9:33 pm
We are applying for a small technology grant to purchase the hardware and software that will allow us to convert existing programs into the fulldome format and...
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Kris McCall
krismccall@...
Mar 28, 2005 9:36 pm
I apologize for my poorly worded post. Several people took it to mean that I was looking to buy a projector for $10,000. I am merely looking for the computer...
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Kris McCall
krismccall@...
Apr 6, 2005 12:09 am
Thank you to all who called or sent recommendations for our grant application. It was interesting to note how similar and in line most suggestions were. I...
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Kris McCall
krismccall@...
Apr 6, 2005 8:49 pm
We are exploring the possibility of incorporating an Elumens VisionStation into a future exhibit area. This is a concave projection screen that an operator can...
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Brad Thompson
bthompson@...
Apr 7, 2005 12:48 am
Hi, Have you seen Eventscope? http://www.eventscope.org/es/. I don't know much about it personally, but it sounds like it might be in the direction of what...
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Eric Knisley
stinking_angel
Apr 7, 2005 12:49 am
Hi Kris-- Eric Knisley here. I'm Director of Content Development for Elumens Corporation. I'd be happy to talk offline about how we can help you with ...
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david mcconville
bangneow
Apr 7, 2005 12:50 am
Kris, The differences between developing pre-rendered animations for fulldome and Elumens-style systems are minimal. Elumens also has a stitcher engine (much ...
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michaelmsmail
Apr 7, 2005 11:10 pm
Hi all: I'm a former Digistar 2 programmer/tech who has just started as producer in a full dome facility. Due to the ever present budget crunch, I'll probably...
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Rob Spearman
cunundrums
Apr 7, 2005 11:11 pm
... I'm curious as to which correction libraries you are referring to that would be compatible with open source licenses. The GNU GPL, for example, forbids...
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dneafus
Apr 8, 2005 6:33 am
Hi Mike, In response to your question about conferences, here is my shameless plug for WAC 2005 to be held in Denver Sept. 7-9. We have a number of activities...
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david mcconville
bangneow
Apr 8, 2005 2:18 pm
Rob, Elumens has developed a number of different libraries over the years for doing spherical correction (single and multi-channel texture-based, ...
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Anita M. Sohus
sohus2002
Apr 9, 2005 1:53 am
Kevin Hussey, JPL's Visualization Technology manager, sez: Kris has been well advised. There isn't enough content available, in a form she can use in the...
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dneafus
Apr 9, 2005 1:53 am
It is our pleasure to announce the establishment of The Fulldome Theater Compendium ONLINE! http://www.lochness.com/lfco/lfco.html This is part of an ongoing...
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Ryan Wyatt
ryan_j_wyatt
Apr 10, 2005 8:48 pm
Posted for Pat Reiff (reiff@...): === THANKS SO MUCH to lochness for doing this organization work! We are now pleased to report that, thanks to seed...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 11, 2005 8:57 pm
We've updated our web site to include case histories from the NASA Immersive Earth project's first show, Earth's Wild Ride... as well as a link to our...
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Rob Spearman
cunundrums
Apr 11, 2005 8:58 pm
Just wanted to highlight that we are now accepting orders from the European Union and Canada for our Digitarium Alpha portable digital planetarium and...
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Apr 16, 2005 3:39 pm
I've been experimenting with the "worlds cheapest fisheye camera" with regard to creating fisheye images for planetariums, for results and comments see ...
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Mike Bruno
csondorboy2
Apr 19, 2005 6:12 pm
To the Fulldome Community: The papers and proceedings of the IPS 2004 Special Session, Fulldome Standards Summit, are now on-line at http://www.fulldome.org...
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david beining
dbeining
Apr 21, 2005 8:30 pm
It's looking like "Wired" magazine will be running a story on DomeFest for their July issue. We'll need to submit art for the piece (and for fest marketing)...
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Christine Shupla
shuplac
Apr 27, 2005 9:38 pm
Greetings, all! My apologies for multiple cross-postings. Dan Neafus and the other gracious hosts of the 2005 Western Alliance Conference have posted some...
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Carolyn Collins Peter...
spacewriter2001
May 10, 2005 11:10 am
Dear Colleagues, I will be attending the "Communicating Astronomy with the Public" meeting (http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2005/) in Garching, ...
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Mike Murray
mmurray@...
May 16, 2005 5:10 pm
Greetings, The Clark Planetarium is seeking a talented 3-D computer modeler/animator for its production department. This is a full-time salaried position with...
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Steven T. Savage
savage@...
May 16, 2005 11:34 pm
Dear Colleagues, It is with pleasure I announce Sky-Skan will demonstrate a very exciting development in full dome projection technology at MAPS 2005. In the...
