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  Re: Digital fulldome showreel proposal  
From: clipka
Date: 31 Dec 2008 20:40:01
Message: <web.495c1df67ef07fb830acaf600@news.povray.org>
Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
> >Also, for those people without home planetarium: How do
> >you actually go about creating scenes which look good on
> >a dome when you only see a distorted fisheye view in 2D?
>
> A very good point.

Maybe some smart POV-Ray script that takes the fisheye shots as input, and shows
you an excerpt of it in a more 2D-display compatible projection?

After all, when sitting in a planetarium you never actually see all of the dome
at once either - you can only concentrate on portions of it.


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