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10-10-2018
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Taking a look around a LOFAR international station in VR

Submitter: Robert Schulz
Description: For sometime now I wanted to create a 360-degree animation that can be experienced with and without virtual reality headsets. The first results of this endeavour are now available on YouTube. There are two videos that show a LOFAR international station created entirely with Blender. Both videos are rendered in 3D and allow you to look around in 360 degree. In one video the camera moves across the station from the HBA to the LBA. Many thanks to ARTS for making this version possible by rendering it on the cluster. It took the ARTS GPU cluster only about 1h and 16min to render 2700 frames at a resolution of 2560x2560 creating about 67GBytes of image files. In the second video the camera is not moving, but this allowed me render only a single frame on my home machine at a higher resolution of 5120x5120. The Daily image shows screenshots from this video. Both videos can also be enjoyed in 2D and 360 degrees without a VR headset.

Links to the videos: https://youtu.be/r7PXxGFJQt4 and https://youtu.be/BlJ0vk-4w8w
Copyright: Robert Schulz
 
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