Check out the following letter from Paul Bourke to see how he is using my geometry in Astrophysics.
-- D. Thomasson
I've made a short animation with the camera between the
polar and star sphere, the camera rotates around the vertical
and all the spheres rotate about a weird axis so as to avoid
seeing patterns. I've been playing with this because we're
putting some content together for an astronomy full dome
conference. We've put a couple of sequences together showing
some of our science (colliding galaxies) but we were looking
for something more "fun" and were thinking about something
that would give the viewer in a dome the sensation of vertigo.
This animation I believe would do that admirably. The animation
is weird to watch on the screen because it is a 180 degree fish
eye, it will be screened at the Hayden or Smithsonian dome,
we have already rendered parts of a show running there called
Infinity Express.
www.skyskan.com/IE/index.html
The conference/event is not open to the public and we would
of course give full credit for the concept to yourself.
So what do you think? Do I have your permission to render
a sequence based upon your geometry? There is no $ involved
for us or anyone else, it is basically designed to show that
we can create a variety of full dome content.
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P a u l B o u r k e
Visualisation Research Fellow
Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Swinburne University of Technology
Victoria 3122, Australia
