The Scene: Santiago Calatrava's "Hemisferic" which serves as the planetarium and IMAX theatre at the Valencia Museum of Science. The glass door is visible in its retracted position revealing the dome inside.
Sand : A stream of liquid sand flows from the top of the dome. Actors wearing climbing harnesses descend from the dome's apex while the virtual sand flows around them. The actors form configurations where the sand piles up above them.
Fire : Actors, running across the dome on harnesses, alternately burn with a real-time fluid fire simulator.
Puppet Eye : An twenty-four meter wide eye is projected onto the dome. The eye is puppeteered using the mouse, keyboard, and joystick to control movement, blink, and iris dilation. Because the eye is controlled in real-time, it moves and reacts ins
Video in Iris : The eye had live video placed into the iris which moved with the eye and dilated as before. This was used in several sequences where the eye looked at someone in the audience and, in so doing, took on their image.
SMS Graffiti : The audience was invited to send text messages using the Short Message Service (SMS) of their cell phones. Over 300 people sent messages and a large majority of the 10,000+ audience stayed on to watch the messages scroll by for over
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