Designing a Real-Time playback system for a Dome Theater
Dimitris Christopoulos, Georgios Theodoros Papaioannou, Gjergji Zyba · 2006
Most dome display systems today employ pre-rendered shows for attracting visitors. In addition since the technology is well established, developers have many tools at their disposal for creating such shows. On the contrary real-time shows for dome displays are just starting to appear. As a result the production of such shows is not a standardized process. Slowly, progress is made. Graphics generator cards are able to support the required SXGA+ resolutions and the supporting cluster systems are able to supply the processing power and memory bandwidth that such real-time systems require. Tools have to be developed and new processes have to be established. The Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW) having produced numerous real-time productions for immersive flat display systems has great experience in realizing such shows. In this paper we present the technological developments for the production of real time applications for digital dome display systems.