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"Progress"
Full-Dome System for Full-Dome Projections into a Dome
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Planetariums and smaller personal domes can provide an immersive environment for science education, virtual reality, and entertainment. Digital projection into domes, called "full dome projection" in the industry, can be a technically challenging and expensive exercise, particularly so for installations with modest budgets. An alternative full dome digital projection system is presented based upon a single projector and a spherical mirror to scatter the light onto the dome surface. The approach offers many advantages over the fisheye lens alternatives, results in a similar quality result, but at a fraction of the cost- |
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We are introducing the new "Progress System" for Full Dome Projections in Portable Planetariums and Educative Dome at the lowest international price and with the highest possible quality, as we always do :) With our help the Full Dome Projection Revolution has rised with a very competitive price in the educative market, against the overpriced products in the international market. Portable Planetariums Home has given one more time an affordable answer to the world wide customers. |
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| What is needed for a Success Full-Dome Projection ? | |||||||||
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A Full Dome Projection needs: 1) Computer; 2) Codecs; 3) Spherical Mirror or "Fish Eye" Lens; 4) DLP Digital Projector; 5)"Warp" videos to be projected into a dome and 6) Dome |
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| They are the following Five Requirements | |||||||||
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| Pentium IV - 2,4 Gb or AMD + 2500 or higher. Memory RAM: 1 Gb o Superior. Video Card: GForce 5.200 or Higher. DVD Room: 16 x or higher. Also is needed Codec Pack | |||||||||
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| 2. Codecs | |||||||||
| K-Lite Pack de Codecs para Computadora - Descarga | |||||||||
| 3. Reflection System: Spherical Mirror | |||||||||
| We choose a "Spherical Mirror" to project into the dome with digital projectors, because they are very affordable, and the result is almost the same. The advantage of the "fish eye" lens is that they can cover all the dome, meanwhile parabolic mirror cover 340 degrees (because the mirror projects a shadow). However, lens must be made in agree with the focal distance of the digital projector, and they are very very expensive. Meanwhile, mirrors can be used in any DLP Digital Projector. Choose Mirrors and you will save hundreds and even thousands dollars forpractically the same results. We provide to the customers a 60 cm (on diameter) Spherical Mirror with a luxury and strong travel box for Full Dome Projections. | |||||||||
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Full
Dome Examples
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These
samples are only examples for demostration purposes. They were
recorded in low quality with a digital hand camera for easy download
via internet.
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| 4. Digital Proyector | |||||||||
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Current Digital Projectors are based on DLP technology, better than old LCD Tehnology. DLP technology makes very dark "backgrounds" not "grays" like LCD's projectors. Also, DLP technology provides a very high contrast, brightness and resolution for sucessful projections into a dome. The client can choose any DLP Digital Projector provided by the best international companies like DELL, Sony, Sharp, etc. In this way the client will save hundreds and even thousands dollars purchasing it in own country :) The Client should keep in mind 3 considerations to choose a DLP Digital Projector: 1) Contrast, 2) Brightness and 3) Resolution. Of |
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| course: highest values, better results :) Specially highest contrast relations result in better images. We recommend choose the highest possible contrast relation, brightness and resolution. For example the DLP Digital Projectors in the market can be found with contrast relationships between 2000:1 to 12.000:1 or more, brightness between 1800 - 2100 lumens or more and resolutions larger than 780 pixels x 1024 pixels. The price is always important, but the quality from a SXGA+ (1400x1050) is significanly better than XGA. | |||||||||
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We recommend a DELL 5100 MP. Bright 3,300 ANSI Lumens / Contrast Ratio / SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) | ||||||||
| In short: highest values, better results. Minimal possible values are: resolution: > 780 x 1024, brightness: > 1800 lumens and contrast relation: > 2000:1 | |||||||||
| 5. WARP Movies - Explanations | |||||||||
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Warp is a computer effect provided by some complex edition programs. WARP effect is applied to videos and animations to avoid distortions of Dome Spherical shape. Warp effect modify videos and animations as if you see them with a "fish-eye" lens and it is necessary to see a full dome projection without distortions. Our Warp video-clips were downloaded from Public Internet Places, include a wide topics selection. |
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| 6- Dome | |||||||||
| In any projection is necessary a "screen". Obviously for a "full-dome" projection is necessary a non-flat screen like a Dome. We produce high quality domes at very affordable international prices. | |||||||||
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The
Revolucionary Full-Dome World at the lowest international price,
with our "Progress" Full-Dome System. "Progress"
Full-Dome System include:
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Full-Dome Solution: "Progress" Full-Dome System.
All to make spectacular presentations into a Portable Dome. |
1)
Spherical Mirror, 2) Luxury Travel Box, 3) Astronomy Programs:
Stellarium and Mitaka Plus and 4) 37 WARP
Video-clips.
Optional: You can ask a Dome having a complete Full-Dome System, like our "Master Elemental" Portable Planetarium |
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Pack-A01
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Included
with Progress System - Software
for Full-Dome Projections
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| Stellarium Program | |
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is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a
realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye,
binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. |
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| Features - Sky | |
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catalogue of over 600,000 stars extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars asterisms and illustrations of the constellations constellations for twelve different cultures images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue) realistic Milky Way. Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset the planets and their satellites |
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| Visualization | |
| visualisation equatorial and azimuthal grids star twinkling shooting stars eclipse simulation skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection |
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| Interface | |
| a powerful zoom, time control, multilingual interface, fisheye projection for planetarium domes, spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome, all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control telescope control | |
| customisability | |
| add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts... | |
| Mitaka Plus 1.2.0 beta for Full-Dome Projections |
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| Mitaka Plus is a real-time 3D engine which visualizes from the Earth to the known edge of our universe. Mitaka Plus is based on Mitaka by 4-Dimensional Digital Universe Project (4D2U Project) in National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Mitaka Plus aims to add more features and better usability to the original Mitaka. |
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Pack-A02
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Included
with Progress System - 7
Hubble Video-Clips to Assemble Shows - Only
Music
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1
- Solo musica - 8 m 26 s - 0,4 Gb
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- Solo musica - 8 m 14 m - 0,4 Gb
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- Solo musica - 9 m 40 m - 0,4 Gb
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- Solo musica - 9 m 43 m - 0,4 Gb
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- Solo musica - 6 m 04 m - 0,25 Gb
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- Solo musica - 9 m 47 m - 0,4 Gb
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- Solo musica - 4 m 45 m - 0,25 Gb
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Images
of the universe taken by the Hubble telescope. Galaxies, nebulas,
star clusters and other celestial bodies in the deep sky.
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Included with Progress System - 30 WARP Video-Clips to Assemble - Collection - English | |
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These
Warp 30 video-clips were downloaded
from http://www.nasa.gov and and other public sites. They have
WARP effect and they are made for customer's assembly. The customer
can make his/her own WARP shows using any Assembler Video Edition
Program
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Europa
Mission: Arrival. Time: 3m 24s - 197MB
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Cassini
Mission: Saturn Flyby. Time:2m 20s-171MB
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Apollo
15 Landing in the Moon. Time: 3m 50s-52MB
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Opportunity
Mission - 1: In Mars. Time: 2m 41s
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Ocean
of Climate Change: 3m 50s
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Fantasy
World - Searching Life - 2m 17s -
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Landing
in a Stormy Planet - 2m 30s - 306 MB
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Structural
Impacts - 1m 6s - 100 MB
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Galaxy
Survey: Beyond of Crux - 2m 37s - 420 MB
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Big-Bang
- Simulation - 1m 36s - 55 MB
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Mass
Distribution - 2m 10s - 112 MB
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From
Milky Way to the Sun - 2m 45s - 56 MB
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Star
Formation - 47s - Not sound - 88 MB
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Future
of the Moon - 11m - 377 MB
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From
Earth to the Moon - 5m 26s - 228 MB
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Apollo
in the Moon - 1m 7s - 182 MB
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Water
in the Solar System - 3m 53s - 354 MB
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Space
Station - Simulation - 1m 40s - 299 MB
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The
Space Race - 1m 08s - 89 MB
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Origins
of the Life - 2m 30s - 626 MB
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Volcano
Olympus in Mars - 24s - 51 MB
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Legends
- Cartoon - 2m 28s - 92 MB
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Presentation:
Astronomy - 2m 40s - 287 MB
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Presentation:
The Sciences - 2m 30s - 249 MB
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Travelling
from the Space to Earth -
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Escaping
of this Crazy World - 1m 17s - 142 MB
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Funny:
Into a Mother Ship - 1m 58s - 521 MB
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Dark
Star - Cartoons 1,2,3 - 7m 41s - 1,100 MB
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Tornado
Simulation - 1m 57s - 240 MB
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Travelling
in a City - 1m 27s - 251 MB
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| Dell 5100MP Technical Description - Suggested Projector - Not Included | |
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RF
Remote |
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