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Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
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Syphon server functionality (for usage in fulldome planetariums) #354

Open alex-w opened 5 years ago

alex-w commented 5 years ago

Original report by M Roessner: https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/1514238

This is a feature request (not a bug report).

Syphon (http://syphon.v002.info/) is an open source Mac OS X technology that allows applications to share frames - full frame rate video or stills - with one another in realtime. Adding Syphon server functionality to Stellarium would allow planetarium operators to stream Stellarium footage in real time into dome-enabled VJ software packages, such as BlendyDomeVJ (http://www.blendydomevj.com/) or vDome (http://interactivedome.net/).

In this way, Stellarium can be used also in multi-projector fulldome planetarium domes. This would promote the usage of Stellarium also in large-scale planetarium installations, where the already-implemented fisheye projection is not sufficient.

gzotti commented 5 years ago

We have solved this for Windows already with Spout. Any volunteers for Mac?