DomeView : a tool for digital planetariums

The content produced for fulldome projection is usually made in a frame (the master) with a format corresponding to a projection of the dome on a plane, commonly the fisheye projection. Due to the distortions involved, looking at the master does not give a clear idea of the final result once project...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva, Marco (author)
Other Authors: Fernandes, A. R. (author), Pedrosa, António (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/18614
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/18614
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Summary:The content produced for fulldome projection is usually made in a frame (the master) with a format corresponding to a projection of the dome on a plane, commonly the fisheye projection. Due to the distortions involved, looking at the master does not give a clear idea of the final result once projectedon a planetarium dome. The common solution when creating and composing content is to go through an iterative process, making successive projections on a planetarium until the desired result is achieved. However, repeatedaccess to a planetarium is difficult, costly, and time consuming. So there is a need for an application that can provide theuser with a clear notion of the final result in the planetarium. In addition, if the application could be used to show content in a small (single projector) planetarium, like a portable one, its versatility would increase substantially. This paper reports on such an application: Domeview.