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Jason Talley
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Jason Talley's Blog
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This site has many wonderful features to help improve communication and cooperation in the planetarium community, like this blog. We should all start using these great features.
I, for one, plan to blog for the good of the planetarium community as a whole.
One the recent conversation on DomeL involved the challenges facing an increasing number of planetariums, content for low budget, fulldome systems. The discussion brought to light different points of view on fulldome content.
The prevailing… Continue
I, for one, plan to blog for the good of the planetarium community as a whole.
One the recent conversation on DomeL involved the challenges facing an increasing number of planetariums, content for low budget, fulldome systems. The discussion brought to light different points of view on fulldome content.
The prevailing… Continue
Posted on December 11, 2008 at 12:49am —
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- Work in a planetarium
- If you work(ed) in a planetarium, which one?
- St. Charles Parish Public Library Planetarium
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- techie, geek, skeptic, optimist
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I made some clouds for this:
http://planetarium.ning.com/video/fulldome-particle-experiments
I used instanced geometry in particle systems and used the composite nodes to soften them up a little. Highher resolution source objects would be better...
Nice! That puts my little bit of rain (and attempted clouds) for Duck to shame.
But since you're making a humanesque character, you might want to be aware of the "uncanny valley" effect, especially, if Professor Photon will be lecturing to young c...
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Thanks for the congratulatory message on the opening of the Ghana Planetarium.
With the preparations for the opening and everything I really haven't had much time for looking at how to load the stills on the Mediaglobe. I will try and look at them next week.
There are two volunteers here now from the UK and one of them is going to work on helping to get the scripting going, including images. He may have some questions that I will pass along to you.
Are you far enough along in production of Duck that we could talk about licensing? Even if the show isn't done, I'd like to discuss bringing the show to my place.
Thanks...Mark (mpercy@williamsvillek12.org)
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Just knowing this has made my life worth living.
Now I'm working on "Our Place in Space" for the 1st-3rd graders. Tight deadline (first school is booked for Jan. 9. Ack.) Fortunately it's a much simpler show visually.
What have you been working on?