Paul Bourke Letter
Check out the following letter from Paul Bourke in 2002 to see how he was 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 fisheye, it will be screened at the Hayden or Smithsonian dome, we have already rendered parts of a show running there called Infinity Express.
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
"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 fisheye, it will be screened at the Hayden or Smithsonian dome, we have already rendered parts of a show running there called Infinity Express.
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