Production
The Clark Planetarium Production Department is carrying on the 37-year tradition of the Hansen Planetarium by creating and distributing cutting edge content for planetariums worldwide. The production group creates its own digital dome cinema using a new 464-node render farm. Original full dome shows created by the Clark Planetarium production department include:
- Perfect Little Planet — Tour of the modern solar system (2012) in a fulldome 3-dimensional environment (i.e., 3-D without stereoscopic technology).
- Led Zeppelin — The most-demanded classic rock program (after Pink Floyd) in dome theaters since the 1970's.
- Attack of the Space Pirates — A science fiction action adventure show about the search for alien artifacts in our Milky Way galaxy, designed for all ages
- Gateway to the Stars — A live-narrated program about techniques for observing the night sky with the eye, binoculars and telescopes. Plays the first Saturday of every month, using deep sky objects currently visible at that time.
- Alternative-X — A music entertainment program featuring a variety of alternative rock, progressive rock and modern rock styles.
- Flight to the Moon: LRO and LCROSS — A mini-show about NASA's newest unmanned probes to the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
- Extreme Planets — A tour of what earthlike extrasolar planets might look like, narrated by Rene Auberjonois
- The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket — Popular animated family show visiting the objects of our solar system
- Saturn: Jewel of the Heavens — Fully immersive journey to Saturn through the eyes of the Cassini-Huygens space mission
- Sounds of the Underground – Techno and Club music light show featuring full-dome animation, laser beamwork and light effects
- Rock on Demand — Classic Rock themed music entertainment show, user-controlled "Jukebox" selection of music
- Night Vision — Current events and hot topics from the world of space and astronomy
- Dateline Mars — Live narrated production about the planet Mars and the latest images from spacecraft
- Black Holes — A 3D digital journey into the mystical and enigmatic Black Hole, narrated by John de Lancie
- Holiday Music Magic — Holiday music light show
- Ultimate Universe — A fulldome grand tour of the Universe, our Milky Way Galaxy, and Solar System
Read more about this topic: Clark Planetarium
Famous quotes containing the word production:
“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, nor is it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)