"Dinosaur Prophecy"

New Fulldome sequences for the NASA Immersive Earth's "Titanic" show

The NASA Immersive Earth's fulldome "Titanic" show tells the story from a different angle than usual. Instead of unfolding the tragic sinking with focus on the ship itself, a scientific look at the various climatic conditions that created the circumstances that inevitably lead to the impact with the iceberg are explored. Why was it so dificult to see the iceberg that night, why were the ice flows further south that year and why was the ship not able to easily turn and avoid the iceberg are explored.

Home Run Pictures' animators were called on to produce immersive fulldome scenes to depict the warming flow of the Atlantic Gulf Stream starting in the Caribbean where coral reefs flourish and then to follow a humpback whale north to show the ice mass "calving" to create the icebergs that led to the fateful sinking.

Also depicted in immersive fulldome views is a grand tour of the ocean bottom wreck site allowing the audience to experience what only a few explorers have seen, who have ventured below the sea, two and a half miles down in small submersibles.

Click here for Quicktime movie of the coral reef sequence

Click here for Quicktime movie of the wreck sequence

The NASA Immersive Earth Project is a five year funded program to create educational immersive planetarium shows that deal with Earth Science... Rice University's Space Institute and the Houston Museum of Natural Science are the key coordinators