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"A dome is such a great shape to project
a movie on. I think one day people will have
domes in their homes. They’re magical"

- David Lynch, The Art Newspaper, 2008
"Some day in the not too distant future
you'll be able to go to a movie and
the movie will be all around you.
The movie will be over your head,
it will be 360 degrees around you"
- Steven Spielberg, TIME Magazine, 2006
 
DISCOVERY DOME EXTRAS


Discovery Dome is associated with many Firsts in the industry:

Among the many "firsts" associated with the partnership of Rice University and the Houston Museum of Natural Science
(with associated partner companies), from which Discovery Dome has arisen - are the following:

  • First NSF funded teacher program in Astronomy and Earth Science (1988)
  • First internet-accessible automatically updating museum kiosk (1995)
  • First fully digital planetarium in the US (Dec 1998) (third in the world)
  • First fulldome Earth science show (1999)
  • First fulldome Space Physics (heliosphere) show (2000)
  • First fully digital portable immersive theatre (2003)
    [note: Digitalis also began in 2003 but had stars only to start with. We had stars and movies from the beginning, thanks to Elumenati and Sky-Skan]
  • First fulldome show DVD flown in space (STS-123, 2008)
  • First fisheye lens flown in space (ISS, 2009, still up and shooting!)
  • With Avela : First airlock dome; First dual-mirror projection system; First durable first-surface spherical mirror

    More details available here

     

Discovery Dome appears in BBC Horizon programme:
Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?
See the 6.3 MB video clip here

Free pre-warped 1920x1080
fulldome content:
(Warning: large files, so right-click and Save)

Research:

Fulldome Resources:

  • Introductions to the fulldome medium can be found here and here
  • Tutorials on how to create fulldome content appear here
  • The free official fulldome community and mailing list is located here
  • Invaluable resources about the fulldome medium can be found here
  • Introductions to fisheye lens photography can be found here, here and here
  • A generously detailed and useful fulldome content creation blog here
  • You can even dome-enable your real-time OpenGL applications here
  • Detailed comparison of ALL fulldome projector systems can be seen here
Generally cool things:
How to use your DOME to the FULL: dazzling 360° projections; LEDs embedded in the dome; openings for special effects; superb surround sound;
audience standing to take in the entire experience (keep watching until the Dragon show begins)




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Fulldome theatres have overtaken the number of IMAX theatres worldwide, and are closing in on the total number of Large Format cinemas

 

Projector resolutions diagram from Wikipedia
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