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Projecting Data on a Sphere

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the higher-def dept.

necro81 writes "The NYTimes has an article in today's Science section that describes a four-projector system that displays images on a spherical screen. The Science on a Sphere system, developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center and used in some planetariums, can display and animate vast amounts of visual data from the Earth, Moon, Sun, and the other planets. The sphere is suspended by thin wires, and animating the image data gives the illusion of a free-floating, rotating world."

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  1. Re:Halograms by w33t · · Score: 3, Interesting

    actually, by combining this technology with this technology you could have a pretty cool visual representation of the earth and it's current space traffic.

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  2. suspended by thin wires by llZENll · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "suspended by thin wires"

    Come on now, can't they use some kind of magnetic levitation system? Or even an air cushion, that would be pretty cheap and cool.

  3. Google Earth by Wormholio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    wow, this would be a cool output device for Google Earth.

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