Hi all, There hasn't been much activity here lately, so I thought I'd try to start a conversation. As we (hopefully) all know, this past Saturday, May 2, was...
For realtime gaming, the following applications have been successfully interfaced to fulldome: Quest3D, Blender, and Unity3D. Some examples of the two later...
I have recently been in Singapore .... the planetarium there is "large" at 23m diameter OmniMax dome tilted at 30 degrees. They have a lovely OmniMax 70mm film...
Hi! Following the previous post regarding gaming on the dome, there have been several experiences in the past. We also exported Quake3 Arena for the...
That said, the Spitz Space Voyager star ball is basically the same as their Space Transit Simulator, the first of which was installed in San Diego... early...
Hi all, I thought some of you might be interested in this: http://www.astrosociety.org/events/meeting.html Dates: September 12-16, 2009 Location: Westin San...
Hi We are taking a closer look at single channel/portable dome systems at the moment. The playback systems seem to be quite generic, if it is pre-geometry...
The main challenge we have had is playback at a solid 30fps at 1920x1080. The quality must be very high to keep it looking sharp across the dome. We have...
Hi Paul, What codecs are people using to get surround sound playback in portable ... On a mac-based system I have been using QuickTime as a container with 5.1...
I'll put in a second vote for the photo jpeg Quicktimes at 66%- 75% and 14 - 18 mb/sec mpeg's for Windows. I have also used Apple's intermediate codec with...
... I'm talking spherical mirror here .... fisheye is simpler unless you are using a n on-linear lens in which case my warpplayer can still be used to correct...
I've just uploaded some images to the photos section of this group (called Wollongong) from a recent trip to the Wollongong (South of Sydney) science centre...
What is the "Mac Trick" that you did to get full resolution? -Tony Butterfield ________________________________ From: Paul Bourke <paul.bourke@...> To:...
... It's in the spherical mirror FAQ (like everything else :-)) See http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/miscellaneous/domemirror/faq.html in the section on ...
Tony, No, I haven't played with flash encoding for fulldome like you're asking about. I have just made flash videos of our fulldome shows and trailers for our...
... if it is ... That might be the ideal. The real world often conspires against that. ... It is my sense that the latter case is operative. Few portable...
CS4 encoder has a choice for "same as source" plus it allows you to import a sequence of tga or tiff frames, so it looks like Flash could become the cross...
Tony, My thoughts are that it will be an uphill battle to convince major fulldome system manufacturers to adopt Flash and change over from their chosen...
Hi, We are a new producer and distributor of films for digital planetariums. Last week we launched our new website - www.antares-fulldome.com - where you can...
Hello, we know tha for a mirror spheric system we need a first surface mirror, as manufacture acrilconvex at Australia. I found a mirror of steel that produce...
... Sorry, but those are steel-_backed_, The surface you would use in projection is not first surface. -- Clear DARK Skies Jack Dunn - Mueller Planetarium...
... Jack Dunn is quite correct, the mirrors you are referring to seem to be the same as the ones Acrl provide before the first surface coating is applied. ...
Hi everyone, Are you up for a trip through 3000 years of history of astronomy? We are proud to present our latest fulldome production: ASTRONOMY: 3000 YEARS OF...
Hi In Cubic folder I upload 6 files in high resolution for print and do a negative photolite. the faces of the cube can be printed in desired size, by default...
I've just uploaded a couple of photos of a semi transparent inflatable dome by a John McCormick. Quite small at 3.75m but he tells me it was mainly a test of...
A short note regarding compatible projectors for spherical mirror projection ... the Dell 7609WU. It is WUXGA which is 1920x1200. Slightly brighter than the...
