Updates to the Griffith’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium

Updates to the Griffith’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium

Jan 8, 2016 | Featured

The Griffith Observatory’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium re-invented itself again in late 2015, nearly ten years after a major renovation that ushered the Los Angeles facility squarely into the realm of fulldome. The latest update brought Digistar 5 along with six...
EC-1, City of Industry

EC-1, City of Industry

Dec 2, 2015 | Installations

Łódz, Poland SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTS Six (6) Sony VLPGT100 Projectors Auto Alignment & Auto Blending Systems  8K Resolution 14m NanoSeam Dome 100 Seats Łódz – At EC1 Lodz City of Culture, there is a new 8K Digistar 5 devoted to astronomy education. This is the first of...
GSCA Dome Day 2015

GSCA Dome Day 2015

Oct 6, 2015 | Featured

WRAP-UP OF DIGITAL DOME DEMO BY EVANS & SUTHERLAND As a follow-up to the world’s first, split screen demo between 15/70 film and 8K fulldome digital projection at the Science Museum of Virginia last October, Evans & Sutherland (E&S) again...
The Birth of Computer Graphics

The Birth of Computer Graphics

Aug 18, 2015 | Featured

BY GEORGE CHAPMAN, KSL.COM CONTRIBUTOR This article originally ran on KSL.Com as part of the Utah Inventions series, which features a different inventor or invention with Utah ties. SALT LAKE CITY — One of the most amazing stories of computing is not out of Microsoft...
Verkehrshaus – Swiss Transport Museum

Verkehrshaus – Swiss Transport Museum

Jul 1, 2015 | Installations

“8K” Digistar 5 · Lucerne, Switzerland SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTS  “8K” Image Resolution Five 5,000 lumen 10,000:1 contrast JVC 4K projectors  1 fL of brightness Auto Alignment & Auto Blending Systems Astrotec 18 meter diameter dome 230 seats in...