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Re: IMAX

  • From: P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: IMAX
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:25:13 -0400
Susan Wageman writes

>Actually, IMAX has dropped the "OMNIMAX" name, they're calling them IMAX 
>Dome Theaters now. 

That's interesting! I did prefer the older term though; more catchy!
I wonder why they changed the names?

>I would be interested in knowing of any OMNIMAX/IMAX Dome theaters that 
>show 3-D. I have heard that there is a difficulty in aligning the images 
>properly on the curved view surface, and that all 3-D movies are intended 
>for showing in standard IMAX theaters. Is this true?

I haven't seen the dome version, but I recollect the same thing, that it
was hard to do 3D with the dome version. The 3D version that I heard about
was a computer generated 3D dome version, because of the difficulties
you described. I imagine there must have been new ones done?

Gabriel 


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