DomeView: A Tool for Digital Planetariums

Silva, M. A.; Fernandes, António Ramires; Pedrosa, A.

DomeView: A Tool for Digital Planetariums

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Date

2010

Authors

Silva, M. A.
Fernandes, António Ramires
Pedrosa, A.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

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 projected on 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, repeated access to a planetarium is difficult, costly, and time consuming. So there is a need for an application that can provide the user 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.

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booktitle = {Eurographics 2010 - Areas Papers
},
editor = {Matthew Cooper and Kari Pulli
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title = {{DomeView: A Tool for Digital Planetariums
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author = {Silva, M. A. and 
Fernandes, António Ramires and 
Pedrosa, A.
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year = {2010
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publisher = {The Eurographics Association
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ISBN = {},
DOI = {10.2312/ega.20101002
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