Fulldome Resources

We have recently made available PDFs and videos of presentations from the Fulldome 101 session at IPS 2006.

The papers and proceedings of the IPS 2004 Special Session, Fulldome Standards Summit, are online at the Spitz Inc. reference page.

See also:

• IPS Full-Dome Video Committee
• Digital Frontiers Planetarian Column
• Fulldome Theater Compendium online, maintained by Loch Ness Productions, allows fulldome theaters to list and update information
• For information on fulldome standards, see Ryan Wyatt’s standards homepage
• Wikipedia site for Fulldome

The Fulldome Video Discussion Group is a Yahoo group moderated by Ryan Wyatt for members of the planetarium community interested in fulldome video technology. Discussion topics are limited to aspects of the planetarium medium directly related to fulldome imaging, aesthetics, and technology. This group is intended as a supplement to other planetarium discussion groups, including DOME-L and the Digistar Users Group mailing list.

Fulldome.org, the “community site for immersive dome theater users,” is currently undergoing renovations.

Tools for digital show production:

• Tutorials by Hue Walker Bumgarner-Kirby from the University of New Mexico ARTS Lab
• The Celestia Motherlode offers Earth satellites in 3DS format

About Spherical Mirror Projection Systems:

• FAQ by Paul Bourke
• Spherical Mirror: A New Approach to Hemispherical Dome Projection, Paul Bourke, The Planetarian, Dec 2005
• Quartz Composer patch—for MacOS users—functionally equivalent to Paul Bourke’s warpplayer, but free with the software development system from Apple—implements the warping of images or movies along with some navigation (e.g., rotating fisheye content)

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