Digital Visualization Theater
The sky’s the limit when it comes to learning at Notre Dame. Projection system provides state-of-the-art visualization opportunities for all disciplines.
At the north end of Jordan Hall, the 136-seat hexagonal Digital Visualization Theater boasts one of the newest projections systems available today—the Sony SRX-S110. Through the magic of Sony’s innovative technology, students will be enveloped in a 360-degree visual experience as they lean back in theater-style seats to watch images flash above them on the 50-foot-high domed ceiling with unprecedented clarity and resolution.
- Sony’s technology projects images at 16 million pixels and at a brightness level of 20,000 ANSI lumens.
Software provided by Sky-Skan, Inc. will allow astrophysicists to project images of the nighttime sky as seen at any time—past, present, or future—and from anywhere on Earth. Instructors and students will be able to produce their own spectacular star shows using software that allows them to create their own script in accordance with the lesson for the day.
- The JBL 9,000-watt 5:1 surround sound Dolby system adds yet another level of realism to experience.
Not just a planetarium, however, the theater also offers unique visualization opportunities to any discipline that might want to use it to illustrate anything from the inside of a cell to perhaps a city that exists only in the mind's eye of an instructor in the School of Architecture. It can be used to display three-dimensional data sets from research projects (real data or computer simulations) or molecular structure models, the contents of King Tut’s tomb or the workings of a flow valve. In short, students from across the university—from chemistry and civil engineering and geological sciences to art, art history and design and architecture—can experience their studies in a whole new light.
The Digital Visualization Theatre (DVT) may be reserved by contacting Stephen D'Ambrosia at 631-9620 or sdambros@nd.edu.
