资 源 简 介
Rendering images for planetarium shows requires rendering software—e.g. Maya, 3dsmax—that supports fisheye projection. With the popular open source project Blender such option does not exists (at least as yet). One option is to use spherical reflective surface, but this causes problems with some of the visual effects. Alternatively one can use a six camera setup ("hemicube"), and stitch them together to create a 180 degree hemisphere. Domemaster is a free open source tool to do the latter.
Domemaster:
* uses FreeImage for loading and saving images
* developed on Linux, but possibly compiles on Mac without modifications
* handles alpha channel
* is reasonably fast even though not multithreaded
* allows modifying the saturation of colours
Usage
The program recognizes camera positions by file prefix:
* f_ front, b_ back, u_ up, d_ down, l_
