I had two friends (Manny and Lyle) helping me drill holes through the panels to feed the fiber optic cabling through. I took my Photoshop map of Andromeda and I made marks on all of the ceiling panels. The raw panel, already cut, and divided into 12" x 12" squares The sheets came in 8' x 4' sizes and I had them cut to the right size at Home Depot to avoid me doing any more crooked cutting. I went to Home Depot and snagged these 1/4" thick sheets of panel board, they would eventually be wrapped in fabric and have stars poking through them. In Photoshop I created a map of the ceiling and scaled the Andromeda system to it. The rule of thumb is no more than 4 "stars" per square foot so I tried to keep it at that. I divided the ceiling into 16 squares of roughly 44" x 40", and each one of those squares was then divided into 12" x 12" sections (roughly). I couldn't find a sparse enough star map of the milky way, and I could find one of the Andromeda system, so Andromeda it was.
Derek (our GPU guy) really has a thing for the milky way, and a very old friend liked the andromeda system. Believe it or not, most people didn't have a favorite. I started by asking all of my friends what their favorite star systems were. The starfield ceiling is up and fully functional, I built it in the same way that SandManX did in his thread over at AVS. You'll notice the wooden strips running along the ceiling - those are used for mounting the starfield ceiling panels, which is the topic of today's TheaterBlog post. My actual screen fabric is safe upstairs, away from the mess and construction of the theater. The screen measures around 11' wide (2.35:1 aspect ratio) and in this picture is outfitted with some cheap fabric I got at a local fabric store near my house, just so I have something to test the projector/lens setup on. In the picture above you'll see the false wall (and my dad's head), the light tray around the room, oh and the screen frame is also up. That being said - a lot has happened since the last update:
Then I spent the rest of January and February playing catch up thanks to being out due to CES-flu, and the past few weeks I've been traveling so once again, I haven't had much time to deal with theater stuff. Now it's looking more like a May thing :)ĬES threw a wrench in my theater plans because I came back with a weird bird flu or something that knocked me out for a good two weeks. The original plan was to have the theater watchable by the end of 2007, obviously that didn't happen.
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