[chimerax-users] dome camera mode

[James Hedberg]

Hi,

I see from previous threads (3/2019) that there are no plans to add the dome projection/fisheye mode for the camera control on ChimeraX:

"It would take some days of work to add dome camera mode to ChimeraX.  We have no funding for that and very few people will use it so I'm afraid that is not likely to be implemented.”

I understand there is probably not a lot of current demand for this feature, however, in the spirit of Field of Dreams - if you build it, they will come. There is a growing interest in using planetariums/full domes for non-astro related sci-viz, yet very few tools available to do so. We’re currently using Chimera (regular) to do sci-viz in the planetarium for proteins and more. Knowing that this would be supported down the road when ChimeraX takes over (not sure when that will happen) would certainly be nice. You could make ChimeraX uniquely positioned to fill this deficit.

Anyway, just a hand raised here for an informal poll of ‘who wants dome mode’.

Thanks,

James



Dr. James Hedberg
Physics Lecturer
Director, CCNY Planetarium<https://ccnyplanetarium.org>
City College of New York
Department of Physics




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