The Sun in A Sphere

Skript for downloading 360° images from https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse_sphere/

and process them to a movie and project to a sphere

The processed images are meant to be used and are tested with a laserbeamer and a 180° fish eye lens.

For more information and a DIY guide visit https://sun-in-a-sphere.github.io

Configuration file sun-in-a-sphere.conf contains various adjustable settings.

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Authors: Lukas Musy & Mischa Nüesch

Organization: FHNW

Installation Guide

Prequesites:

• Imagemagick (tested on version 7.06)

• Mplayer (tested on version 4.2.1)

• GNU Parallel

Linux comes preinstalled with these. On multi processor systems it is recommended to make sure you have imagemagick installed with support for OpenMP and OpenCL. Check with convert -v | grep OpenMP

On MacOS to install the dependencies install homebrew https://brew.sh/, open a terminal and type

brew install gcc wget imagemagick --with-openmp --with-opencl mplayer parallel

Linux

On multi processor systems it is recommended to make sure you have imagemagick installed with support for OpenMP and OpenCL.

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1. Get the package at https://github.com/sun-in-a-sphere/generator/releases/tag/1.0.1

2. Open a shell and type:

   apt install ./sun-in-a-sphere.deb

3. Adjust the configuration file sun-in-a-sphere.conf to taste.

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4. Run the script with: (conf file needs to be in current folder)

   ./sun-in-a-sphere.sh

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MacOS

1. Get the Package at https://github.com/sun-in-a-sphere/generator/releases/tag/1.0

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2. Adjust the configuration file sun-in-a-sphere.conf to taste.

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3. For easy install, double click sun-in-a-sphere.command.

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   Or open a terminal and type:

   chmod u+x ./sun-in-a-sphere.sh

   ./sun-in-a-sphere.sh