SPACE TOUR (2007)
Space Tour (2007) is an approximately 50-minute “chill out” planetarium music show that I designed and produced at the Jena Planetarium in 2007. It included an approximately 10-minute show laser track that was not written by me. It ran for almost a decade at the planetarium in Jena and was finally revised and modernized by the production team there. The show is laid out in a classic, canonical structure, starting on Earth and ending with large-scale structures of the cosmos. Space Tour” consists of fulldome sequences and science visualizations from external sources that I produced. The show is cut to a selection of popular music pieces from different genres with a thematic reference to the night sky.
Production background
During production I made extensive use of the “Terragen” program, among other things.
made, which created quite impressive virtual landscapes for the time
had manufactured. At that time there were no sophisticated plug-ins or software functions
create immersive content. At least five views of a scene always had to be rendered and then “stiched”, i.e. combined into a hemispherical view. A friend of mine had written his own script for the rendering of the “Space Tour” scenes in Terragen.
The program of choice for stitching the renderings was “Pineapple” Stitcher, a small tool that only accepted uncompressed *tga image files and thus led to considerable amounts of data in the production process.
Credits & Info
Space Tour
Concept and Animations: Tobias Wiethoff
©2007 Sternenvent GmbH
