The MirrorDome design was pioneered by visualisation researchers at Swinburne University who were looking for a more cost effective way to achieve full dome or near full dome digital projection. Astronomers and telescope manufacturers have known for decades that using mirrors is much more cost effective than lenses. The same is true with the MirrorDome.

The Approach
MirrorDome uses a high quality spherical mirror to reflect the image from a DLP projector on to the dome. If a normal fisheye image were projected onto the mirror, severe distortions would be the result. Mirrordome developes the correct optical distortions or "warping" (as we call it) to the original fisheye images, so that when the image hits the dome surface, the result is a perfect fisheye projection.

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