The Butterfly Catcher
Pencil lines and polygons. Butterflies and thoughtful eyes. A portrait of Vladimir Nabokov. On Discovering a Butterfly I found it and I named it, being versed in taxonomic Latin; thus became godfather to an insect and its first describer — and I want no other fame. Wide open on its pin (though fast asleep), and safe ...
Thieves Portraits
Something about the convicted stare. Full of thought… Regret, fear, contempt… It’s somehow all in there. The inspirational images I drew the portraits from came from a very special little piece of the internet called Candy Ping Pong
Warping Fisheye Images for Spherical Mirror Projection
Warping Fisheye Images for Spherical Mirror Projection… Or… How to make your front room into an immersive cinema. This post doesn’t go into any of the complex mathematics involved with spherical mirror projection. For that information I recommend using the invaluable resources at http://paulbourke.net . This post explains a practical solution for projecting onto complex geometry ...
Vortex Domes
Since its release a few months ago, VORTEX has has been requested by many planetariums around the world. I’m filled with a sense of pride every time I get an email requesting access to the 4k download. To think that a tiny minutes worth of my work will be projected inside some of these incredible ...
Hi-Res Fulldome Alignment Grid
I woke up early this morning thinking there was an animal wandering around the flat. There was no animal in the flat. But following this I had trouble getting back to sleep… Instead, I could think of nothing but dome alignment grids. I’ve been thinking about some complex mapping solutions recently using a spherical mirror, ...
Projection Mapping Tests
I’m not just bored… I have an idea in mind here, but for now it’s easier just to say I wanted to figure out how to do projection mapping. So last night, I did. First thing was to set the projector up and point it so it hits a number of angled surfaces. I put ...
Dorsal Striatum
Back in the dome today. Checking 3 different camera passes with varying degrees of movement. I’m still not really getting the right kind of disorientation I’m looking for. Even using an intense barrel roll doesn’t really give the sensation of the room moving, but more like the objects in the scene are spinning. I think ...
Lost and Floating Free
Last night was one of those painful sleepless nights… brain firing on overdrive… folder structures and scripted camera rigs under mental construction. Unable to drift of because of the continuous buzz of things to do. Kind of ruined my morning. But today was an important one; I had my first dome test of Vessel. As ...
Vectors vs Pixels
Earlier today I’m having a discussion with a friend, let’s call him Liam, about a particular bit of R&D for a new project we’re working on. We’re trying to find a good way of rendering 3D elements in After Effects using camera paths from 3ds Max… A simple thing until fulldome is involved and then ...
Dear DA VTD58H1Z2X
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