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		<title>Almost done!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The tempo of work is accelerating as we close in on the completion of the system.  The 4 projectors are being enclosed in a custom metal enclosure. The extremely thick metal lined with foam is designed to prevent the fan noise from reaching the audience. An additional requirement is that the panels be removable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=594&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full Dome: What is it and what can we do with it? Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For background, you might consider reading the Wikipedia article on Full Dome. Wikipedia also lists Reuben H. Fleet Science Center as an innovator in the historical  section in 1973. This page describes  Voyage to the Outer Planets as an IMAX film, but is only partly accurate. A better description of it is that is was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=577&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>renderings of completed installation</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/renderings-of-completed-installation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Global Immersion folks have gone home for the holidays, but they left some nice presents! Being computer graphics oriented, of course they left&#8230;.. RENDERINGS! Have a look at some of these glorious pixels&#8230; And glance at this TOP VIEW! A simulated image on our Spitz Nano Seam Dome screen. Of course, this blog is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=567&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brightening the Image</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/brightening-the-image/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amount of light on the screen doubled tonight, as light from the first 8.2 Kilowatt lamp was joined by a second lamp. Soon 2 more lamps will be brightening our dome. When completed, the total amount of power used in this complex projection system will be 32.4 Kilowatts. Several folks have asked us who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=561&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Image on the Heikoff Dome Screen.</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/the-first-image-on-the-heikoff-dome-screen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Thursday night exciting first light, Friday we got another first: The first Image! Of course, being engineers obsessed with getting the largest and brightest possible image  on our enormous screen, the first image is a test pattern. This image is a sort of polar grid, like the lines of latitude and longitude that cover [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=544&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Light from the projectors at 2:10 am on 12-8-11</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/first-light-from-the-projectors-at-210-am-on-12-8-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A significant moment in the life of an instrument is the moment when light first flows through it. Our First Light on Phase 2 occurred at 2:10 am on 12-8-11. Matt Roberts carefully monitored the lamps performance and did preliminary work on the lenses after the lamps were switched on. Perhaps a small thing, none [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=535&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mounting the SONY Projectors</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/mounting-the-sony-projectors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 30th, the Heikoff Dome Theater was closed for one of the VERY few times in the 29 years I have worked here. The occasion was the installation of four SONY SRXT420 Projectors on the projector stands that had been installed in past few days. Each projector weighed in at 400 pounds, and they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=515&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running Cables and installing servers</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/running-cables-and-installing-servers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Server rack for Global Immersion. 8 high high speed computers running in perfect synchronization. All computers have a connection between the computer and the display screen.  In line with our Fulldome system where everything is VERY LARGE, we have many cables. One is not enough.  In order to get 4 K images onto the dome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=487&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phase 2: Asembling the projector stands</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/phase-2-asembling-the-projector-stands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jack contemplates the Theodolite Theodolite information The first step is knowing just WHERE to put the stands, since so much depends on their perfect placement. In this image Global Immersion engineer Jack Langley uses the theodolite to plan the location of the projectors. These folks have been putting in some very long and late hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=474&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">John likes his red hard hat!</media:title>
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		<title>Phase 2: The projectors and their placement</title>
		<link>http://spacetheater.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/phase-2-the-projectors-and-their-placement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johncyoung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When completed, phase 2 will display extremely bright and high resolution video imagery covering almost all of our dome. Full dome video will consist not just of per-created sequences, but also of live created and manipulated in real time video images. Images of astronomy, biology, geology, and other scientific disciplines. Artistic creations will be included [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spacetheater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4193966&amp;post=456&amp;subd=spacetheater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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