... I'm curious what you mean by its use being limited. ... Sorry, I guess I was unclear... The idea is to devise an empirical "calibration frame" (or series...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 9, 2006 5:00 am
... Ryan... not all the tools being used to create content can do 16 bit... and the added expense will be an issue... ... That sounds like a possibility as far...
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Mark Aldred
maldred1234
Apr 9, 2006 9:55 am
Would it be useful to have some kind of wiki-style central repository for calibration frames plus descriptions of the characterstics and quirks of each system?...
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Andy Dolph
acdolph
Apr 9, 2006 4:06 pm
... what about using a colorimeter or some other sort of measurement tools to quantify the performance of a system in a particular dome in a way that it could...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 9, 2006 4:07 pm
Back when Standard Def NTSC was our main studio output, we would joke about NTSC meaning "Never The Same Color "or "Never Twice the Same Color." I remember...
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Benjamin Stanley
trilbymultim...
Apr 9, 2006 8:25 pm
Projectors can be calibrated just like computer and tv screens, why not go down this route? http://www.colorvision.ch/products/prod_spyder2pro.php is one such...
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Andy Dolph
acdolph
Apr 10, 2006 2:35 am
... In fact I had that particular product in mind when I was positing about measurement - though I am planing to order one shortly, I haven't worked with it...
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Ed Lantz
elantz33
Apr 10, 2006 5:53 am
Great discussion regarding standards, calibration and HDR. Here's my two cents: HDR rendering (essentially, greater than 8 bits per color, which only yields...
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Mark Aldred
maldred1234
Apr 10, 2006 5:54 am
Like you say, same problem on TV. Same problem with printed material too. You have the delivery system and the eye of the customer to deal with. My wife has...
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Paul Boyle
pboyle7416
Apr 11, 2006 6:58 pm
Hello, Someone has donated an inflatable planetarium to my school. I want to use it for more than astronomy. I spend my summers exploring in the mountains...
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david mcconville
bangneow
Apr 11, 2006 7:01 pm
Mark (and anyone else interested), There are so many aspects of fulldome development at this point (technology, standards, history, content, theory, etc) that...
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Mark Bajuk
mbajuk@...
Apr 11, 2006 7:01 pm
hey there- here's what we're currently doing at AMNH: starting with our newest show, Cosmic Collisions, we're using OpenEXR 16bit floating point as our native...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 11, 2006 7:02 pm
Comments on Ed's statements... ... Sorry, but that's not gonna be true for the reason that you mentioned... ... It's interesting to discuss the technical side...
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Schmidt, Mickey D Civ...
mickey.schmidt@...
Apr 11, 2006 7:06 pm
I hesitate responding since I obviously don't have a dome to use full-dome presentations on and am not involved in production. However, color perception is a...
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david mcconville
bangneow
Apr 11, 2006 9:00 pm
Tom, While high quality linear fulldome animations may currently be "an enormously expensive tool for a planetarium to feed", the cost of immersive media...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 11, 2006 10:05 pm
All true, but real time is just another wiz-bang tool we technical types like to talk about... interactive has been around for quite a while, it was the last...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 11, 2006 10:21 pm
Hi all... I just uploaded a case history in pdf form for our latest dinosaur production with the NASA Immersive Earth project. It's at our FULLDOME@Home Run...
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david mcconville
bangneow
Apr 11, 2006 11:05 pm
Tom, I completely agree that it's the creative application of the technologies that makes this medium anything more than a novelty. But the evolution of the...
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Ryan Wyatt
ryan_j_wyatt
Apr 11, 2006 11:17 pm
... For just that reason, we need to assess how to make the content we create more transportable, which is the motivation behind a lot of the work Ed and I and...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 12, 2006 4:22 am
Yes, you guys are right in what you are saying, but you're missing my point. "Vendors" as you call them create some content because they want something to...
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Robin Sip
robinsip
Apr 12, 2006 5:21 am
I think Tom is hitting the nail on its head with regards to his concerns about content & the future of full dome video. This issue has kept my mind occupied as...
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Ryan Wyatt
ryan_j_wyatt
Apr 12, 2006 6:17 am
... Well, again, this is a topic that we're going to try to address with the fulldome standards group. Not "standards," per se, but "best practices" for the...
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Erik Roberts
cameraderie0
Apr 12, 2006 3:59 pm
One 'newbie's' two cents worth: It's a privilege to "listen in" to such a passionate and historic conversation regarding the evolution of dome content &...
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Paul Mowbray
paul_j_mowbray
Apr 12, 2006 3:59 pm
Lots of interesting and vital discussions going on here, I'm not going to contribute at the minute but was just wondering when plans for Domefest 2006 might be...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Apr 12, 2006 3:59 pm
... You're responding too literal to the points I was making. Is it the wrong question... or are we just not thinking "out of the box?" Leaders can change...
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Thomas Lucas
tlucas@...
Apr 12, 2006 4:04 pm
Ryan... Just a minor correction of the record... I'm the director/PI of the shows mentioned below. The DMNS show "Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity" and...
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Bass, Jeffery
bassjeffery
Apr 12, 2006 6:48 pm
Hi All, We are adding full-dome video capability to our IMAX dome theater in Milwaukee, so I am intrigued by various comments that compare full-dome video with...
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Mark C. Petersen
ryan_j_wyatt
Apr 12, 2006 7:21 pm
... Boy, tell me about it. Right now, fulldome systems are like snowflakes -- no two are exactly alike. And I am not kidding -- they are ALL different, or...
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Ryan Wyatt
ryan_j_wyatt
Apr 12, 2006 7:42 pm
There's been some confusion, in the flurry of posts and replies the last few days, about how to reply to the entire group. I had set the list's default to...
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Kristian Anderson
krisciowa
Apr 12, 2006 9:52 pm
Facilities with both an IMAX and a full dome planetarium face an additional challenge. We faced that with our move to a new facility that was going to have an...
