Image Gallery of Dome Installations

Generally using the spherical mirror approach invented by the author

Compiled by Paul Bourke


Ladybug camera

 
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Christ Our King Church in Bellefontaine, Ohio

 
 

 
 


APS (Australasian Planetarium Society) conference, Perth May 2008

6m inflatable dome
Courtesy David Carson


Cosmology Gallery, Gravitational Discovery Center

View from the top of the Leaning Tower of GinGin
 

Projection onto 2 of the 5 pentagonal panels
 


King Middle School Planetarium, Omaha

 
 


"Treehuggers" installation by Gatze Zonneveld

 
 

 
 


Game playing in the Adelaide planetarium
By Timon Burney

 
 

 
 


Toongabbie East, Syndey

 
 


Kuching Planetarium, Sarawak, East Malaysia
15m diameter

 
 

 
 

 
 


Go-Domes

 
 


Universidad Panamericana
Mexico City

 
 


Hogar de los Planetarios Portatiles
Argentina

 
 


Mueller Planetarium
Nebraska, USA

 
Dawn of the Space Age (Mirage3D)

Secret of the Cardboard Rocket (by Clark Planetarium)
 

Kaluoka'hina, The Enchanted Reef (Softmachine)
Kaluoka'hina, The Enchanted Reef (Softmachine)


Auckland Museum (Temporary)
New Zealand

 
 


Dept of Neurobiology and Anatomy
University of Rochester, USA


 
 


Museo Interactivo de Xalapa
Mexico

Courtesy Ramon Vargas
 


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

 
 


Gravitational Discovery Centre
Western Australia
High definition (1920x1080) projector tests
 

 
 


WASP, UWA

 
Polar test pattern

Fisheye from Hampi, courtesy of Sarah Kenderdine
It's a Matter of Time

Origins of Life, Mirage 3D
Cosmological Simulation


3m upright dome at ICinema, UNSW
Projection option 2

Polar test pattern
Background microwave radiation


Gravitational Discovery Centre, Western Australia
20m diameter dome
 

Half bucky ball pre building instllation
Mac OS-X on the dome


Adelaide planetarium
South Australia
8m diameter dome

 
 


Bangalore planetarium
India
15m diameter dome

 
Frame from "Moonlight" by Andrew Quinn


Terry Renner

 
 


Graphite 2005 (ACM Siggraph)
Art Exhibition
5m diameter inflatable

Graphite 2005 Art Exhibition
Graphite 2005 Art Exhibition


Various (temporary) projector/mirror rigs
Test rig, Swinburne University
Adelaide planetarium


Hawthorn Town Hall
Melbourne
7m diameter inflatable


3m upright dome at ICinema
UNSW
Projection option 1
Panorama courtesy of Greg Downing


Ribbed dome test (SkySkan)
Fisheye lens and projector
Swinburne University