A Portrait of Stefan Berke & Jan Zehn

Posted by on Aug 20, 2013 in Fulldome, Sketchbook | 4 Comments
A Portrait of Stefan Berke & Jan Zehn

Stephan Berke & Jan Zehn are two brilliant people pushing the boundaries of fulldome. Their work has been screened across the world and picked up a number of awards on the way. What they make is hard to describe with words… As are they. I have done a few sketches of Stefan now and tried […]

DIY Dome – Building a Geodesic Monodome

Posted by on Jul 24, 2013 in Fulldome, LoVR, Vessel | 6 Comments
DIY Dome – Building a Geodesic Monodome

So I’m working on a new personal project. Vessel. I reached a point where I needed to do lots of camera tests in the dome but feedback was too slow, so a few months ago I decided to make a dome so I can really get into it. The final chapter of the film is […]

Fulldome Festival 2013 Zeiss Planetarium Jena

Posted by on Jun 11, 2013 in Fulldome, Vortex | No Comments
Fulldome Festival 2013 Zeiss Planetarium Jena

This was my first time at the fulldome festival in Jena, my first time in the oldest planetarium in the world and my first time experiencing the delights of the famous festival sausage. Vortex won a Janus Award for best spatial sound, which me and Rene went up to collect. Flavio couldn’t make it to […]

Warping Fisheye Images for Spherical Mirror Projection

Posted by on Mar 14, 2013 in Fulldome | 22 Comments
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 […]

The Monodome

Posted by on Mar 13, 2013 in Fulldome, Sketchbook | No Comments
The Monodome

I’m sitting at my computer working on some fulldome cameras for an animation. The feedback process can be painfully slow. It’s hard to get into flow when you have to wait a day before seeing the results in the dome. I say to Jenny “I need a monodome”… a dome for one, setup above a […]

Vortex Domes

Posted by on Mar 13, 2013 in Fulldome, Vortex | No Comments
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

Posted by on Mar 7, 2013 in Fulldome | 3 Comments
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, […]

VORTEX at Fulldome UK

Posted by on Nov 20, 2012 in Fulldome, Vortex | No Comments
VORTEX at Fulldome UK

It’s been an intense weekend at the National Space Centre for Fulldome UK. Two solid days packed with the best in fulldome from all over the world. VORTEX won an award for ‘Best Sonic Experience’, which fills my heart with joy, and my soul with some kind of creative adrenaline. An international crowd gathered from […]

Domefest Official Selection

Posted by on Jul 9, 2012 in Fulldome, Vortex | No Comments
Domefest Official Selection

I’m very pleased to announce that VORTEX has been selected for screening at Domefest 2012! I need to buy Flavio and Rene a bottle of whisky each in celebration. DomeFest 2012 will be held at the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium and ExxonMobil Space Theater at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge, LA. […]