I know a couple of you are doing fulldome production using Maya on Macs... I am curious about your setups, workstations, render farms and storage... and what...
For those who haven't yet had a chance to see our Discovery Dome with the new improved flame-retardant, handicapped accessible, vestibule entry Avela Go-Dome,...
Dear Colleagues: This past weekend at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Sky-Skan installed DigitalSky in the StarRider Full Dome theater for a very special...
Steven T. Savage
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Dec 13, 2005 4:49 am
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Hi... thought I would share the "fulldome" image we used for our studio "Holiday Greetings" this year... it's amazing how many people needed the idea explained...
There are some very good fulldome articles in the December 2005 Planetarian which is available to I.P.S. members. Thanks to fellow list members that took the...
Announcement: Fulldome V1.1, for Mac and PC Fulldome plug-in version 1.1, a compositing plug-in for immersive environments, now also available for Mac. This...
To all who have fulldome hardware or software, A Planetarium in York , England. A few years ago, I mentioned the plans of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society...
Hi all, I'm an independant artist based in Sydney, Australia and I'm looking to develop content for dome based shows. The set up would only be used for...
I'm in the same boat over here in the USA doing about the same sort of setup... But I'm not going to do the fisheye projector because there are not any that...
So here's a question to throw out to the group - or at least those of you who are doing rendered fulldome shows with some astronomical orientation... How are...
It's going to be different depending on which software you are using (3d). But the basic approach is to create some sort of infinite background image, that...
That's just what I was looking for - thanks! a couple of questions - why "shoot" and work with the projection as a cubic background rather then using a sphere?...
If you are not presenting to an audience, you may wish to consider an even smaller alternative: a "Microdome." Ansible Technologies ( www.ansibletech.com) has...
Thus far I have been mapping a star background onto the inside of a mesh smoothed cube in 3DS Max. The result is just okay. I would really like something...
Yes - my first test was a pretty good approximation. It translates reasonably well to our 30 foot dome. Because of distance and angles from the inner surface...
... Depending on what resolution you need, you can also grab the star maps from JPL: http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/ Ryan, a.k.a. Ryan Wyatt, Science Visualizer Rose...
I just did some screen captures from stellarium in the 6 directions and did a little tweaking in Photoshop. Ron Proctor Production Director Ott Planetarium -...
Dear Adrian, Let me deal with each of your points as and when they occur. ... Although I write this about Myself, Many people regard my domes as being the best...
... The pinch caused by spherical projection can easily be corrected with this method: http://www.rdn.qc.ca/images/unpinching_spherical_maps.jpg To make your...
Richard Joly
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Jan 15, 2006 3:50 am
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Check this dome and projection configuration out... http://www.e-planetarium.com/ ...it's a setup we are working with currently... Tom ...
Well, not exactly... the pinching you would encounter is not what they are describing here... ours is an antialiasing issue caused by differing amounts of...
Thanks all for your responses. Andy, the fulldome plugin for Adobe was actually suggested to me by SkySkan in Melbourne. I haven't really looked at anything...
... maybe I'm not asking the right question then - is the fulldome plug-in you're looking at http://fulldomeplugin.multimeios.pt/plugin.htm the one from the...
Here are some other ideas to consider. As far as I know we have the most affordable fulldome (non-truncated) fisheye projector, $17,750 US. It's designed for...
Here is a site with the star position data for about the 9000 brightest... it's nice because it is given in formats that can be read in some 3D applications as...
Another starfield bitmap available for purchase/license is Axel Mellinger's photographic all-sky panorama. It is available as an Aitoff projection in galactic...
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