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  Re: Digital fulldome showreel proposal  
From: nemesis
Date: 31 Dec 2008 10:05:01
Message: <web.495b89897ef07fb8180057960@news.povray.org>
"Paul Bourke" <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote:
> A proposal to the PovRay community .... how much interest is there in the
> production of a PovRay based fulldome showreel? For those who may not be aware,
> planetariums around the world are increasingly able to support high resolution
> fulldome video. This is an exciting medium that gives a great sense of
> immersion. For some more information on fulldome see this article
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulldome

*sigh* I missed a single oportunity when a child to watch one of these fulldome
presentations at a local planetarium.  Thankfully, it was not HD. :)

> Increasingly content for fulldome is not necessarily astronomy based and indeed
> some are pure entertainment

Still, I think if it generates enough interest around, then povray is bound to a
new era of orbitting planets long past the old RSOCP era. :D


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