Space, more or less
Remember the much-anticipated experience of stepping into a planetarium to watch the mysteries of the universe unfold with the rest of your whole 4th grade class? If that was in the 80s (as it was for me), the harsh reality of an underwhelming stumble through a second-rate animated solar system probably shook your astronautical aspirations to their fragile core. Well, it’s the 00s (?) and planetariums are movin’ on up. Maximum PC has an article about a good one, the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (which, coincidentally, recently underwent a remodel from notable architect Renzo Piano).
In imagining the Cube, it’s hard not to think of this type of visual experience (the space travel one). Perhaps of most relevance, the CAS project shows that digital rendering and display technology keeps on moving in the right direction (for us anyway).
Tags: Cube, planetarium, science, space, technology
