§ Project · Houston, TX

Dome install.

A planetarium-style dome ceiling for a science museum in our home city. Curved Orion XR cabinets, machine-cut to wrap an approximately 18 m radius with single-pixel-accurate seams.

IMG · PLANETARIUM DOME — INTERIOR
Panel family
Orion XR (custom)
Pitch
1.9 mm
Dome radius
18 m
Cabinets
~400 (custom-radius)
Total resolution
~16k spherical
Seam tolerance
≤ 1 pixel
Lead time
9 weeks

The brief.

Replace a 1990s projector array with seamless, color-accurate LED. The architects insisted on single-pixel seam accuracy at any viewing position inside the dome. Existing dome geometry from a 30-year-old structure — no two cabinets could be the same shape.

The build.

Roughly 400 unique-radius cabinets, each cut from a 3D survey of the existing dome on our Houston CNC floor. Per-cabinet calibration data baked in firmware before shipping. On-site commissioning with a two-engineer Pisces team.

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