by chris@bouncingball.pro | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Why is Pluto not a planet? Yesterday, August 24th, 2025, marked the 19th anniversary of Pluto’s reclassification (some prefer “demotion”) from “planet” to “dwarf planet” changing the longstanding count of planets in our Solar...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
We have much to learn from asteroids, but researching them is not just theoretical. Although most asteroids are gravitationally corralled by the planets, thousands exist on trajectories that still have potential to intersect with the planets, especially through...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
This year’s Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria will feature the debut of Cultural Astronomy, a brand new experience in the DeepSpace8K 3D immersive theater. Detailed 3D scans of cultural heritage sites will be combined with high-resolution terrain data...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
My deeper exploration of bringing in geospatial data into planetarium software coincided with the release of Dawn’s high resolution maps from Vesta, and as I worked with my colleagues to develop a variety of educational programs on asteroid missions and research,...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Jun 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
I spent the last week with my friends and colleagues at the Ars Electronica Center and their amazing immersive DeepSpace8K theater in Linz, Austria. This unique 3D immersive venue is powered by the same Uniview software I’ve been developing content and programs...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
This August I’ll be hosting “Space on Screen,” a science fiction film series at the New Parkway in Oakland! Come on out Saturday afternoons in August to see four of my favorite science fiction movies with live introductions in OpenSpace and Uniview...
