Presentation Information
[O5-04]The Philosophy of 360 Degree Panoramas in a Digital Dome
*KaChun Yu1 (1. Denver Museum of Nature & Science (USA))
Keywords:
Live Presentations,Fulldome,Geosciences
Aims/Objectives: Panoramic photography was originally introduced to planetariums to help ground visitors in real-world locations for star talks. Using modern digital cameras, it is now easy to create spherical 360 deg panoramas for the same purpose in fulldome theaters. The digital panorama is a budget-friendly way to immerse and transport an audience, without needing to devote considerably more resources to recreating photorealistic versions of these places with 3D models. Yet, their ubiquity and ease of creation hide an important feature of 360 deg panoramas: they can connect the locales represented in the wraparound images to the three-dimensional landscapes depicted by modern fulldome visualization software. Tying the high-resolution panorama view to the 3D digital elevation model draped with satellite imagery can have a subtle but still powerful effect on the audience. I examine the implications of this for planetarium presentations that center on geoscience topics, the relationship of this bond to the Overview Effect, and how the lowly panorama can be just as effective in live presentations as higher-fidelity 3D model-based visuals that are rendered for fulldome films.
Speaker: KaChun Yu
Total time for session: 15 min
Speaker: KaChun Yu
Total time for session: 15 min