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SMPTE Journal IMAX® and OMNIMAX® Theatre Design By William C. Shaw and J. Creighton Douglas eprined from the SMPTE Journal March 1983 Isue, Valnme 99, Number Conyrght © 1989 by the Scity of Motion Picture 1d Television Engineers,IMAX® and OMNIMAX® Theatre Design By William C. Shaw and J. Creighton Douglas Theatre design for both IMAX® and OMNIMAX® presentations opens up a variety of new possibilities and presents a host of problems, some old, and many new. Many traditional concepts of theatre design, such as clear sighlines to the bottom of the screen, are no longer justified, or even desirable. Conversely, becauise of the large included angles in the pro- jection beam, projector ight-ray clearances become critical at many points in the auditorium, Audience movement and safety are important factors, and several unu- sual concepts are discussed. Since most IMAX® and OMNIMAX® theatres are in new construction, there are unique opportunities to optimize the audience environment, including picture, sound, and acoustics. Existing IMAX® theatres range in size from 120 to 980 seats, with 1400 seats pro- jected. OMNIMAX® theatres range from 94 to 380, with larger theatres in the planning stage This allows the horizon to be ina nat- he IMAX® and OMNIMAX® Motion Picture Systems were first developed over 10 years ago to create motion picture images of superior quality and audience impact. These “high-fidelity” images, accompanied by high-fidelity multi-channel sound, involve the viewers with the motion picture and with each other in a way that puts everyone “in the picture.” ‘This strong sense of reality is achieved by reducing or eliminating the various “clues” which normally remind the audience that they are_watching a Picture, Improvement of the systems ‘continues and a review of the present state of the art may be of interest. Special Features ‘Significant features of the IMAX® and OMNIMAX® theatre and system design are: 1. A screen/audience relationship which provides every viewer with a very wide field of view. The edges of the picture are not within the recog- nition field of view, and the rear seats in the theatre are very close to the screen by normal standards. 2. The bottom edge of the screen is placed so that the audience can look down as well as up and to the sides. Presented atthe SMPTE Monel Minconfrenee on Dap 2.1983 by Wiliam. Show ane te [2 Ment rerhnsa Caference (pipet No. 124258 ‘Now Wor Ctyon Noveer 1982p rahi: Donel, bth of bar Sytem Carparion, 1131 roccied Sot, 10, 1982. Copyright © 196 bythe ‘Sey of Modon Pitre aod Telesion Eaginces 284 ural position for most viewers. 43. The film format is very large (ten times the 3S-mm format area), to produce a grain-tree, sharply defined image for all viewers. 4. The projector is especially de~ signed to handle the large format with excellent image stability. 5. Picture contrast and brightness are maintained at a high standard (Cis travel erection (viewed trom emulsion side) Fest through special attention to screen and illumination system design. The IMAX® System presents mo- tion pictures on a screen which is slightly curved or flat, and rectangular in shape. The image occupies a 60° to 120° lateral field of view and a 40° to 80° vertical field of view. The OMNIMAX® System presents motion pictures on a dome screen (typically using about 80% of a hemi- sphere). In this type of theatre the image occupies a lateral field of view averaging I8U*, and a vertical field of view averaging 125°. IMAX® — General IMAX® is a high-fidelity motion picture system: that means both high-fidelity pictures and high-fidelity sound. High-fidelty pictures are pro- duced by using a large film image area (Fig. 1), moderate magnification, and picture steadiness at least five times better than can be achieved by conventional systems. The high-resolution picture is used {n conjunction witha large sereen and joooclooncacoancooon = loo oo oD DGoo DD DD OOO Ispurectenepulocmer_2.60ret : = registration edge Figure 1 IMAX® projector fim format NOTE: filmis projected with emulsion towards lamp two shaded perforations used for travel registration ‘SMPTE Journal, March 1983,Pie travel cirection (ewed Wom ermlsion sid8) 274 ‘epproximatcly elliptical — 23 60mm caophaoopooooooaod af | lens€ 8 film@ oe pooooouonnoudcgauo Os NOTE: Figure 2. OMRIMAX® projector fim format. carefully organized audience seating to ensure that minimum and maxi- ‘mum viewing angles ie between 60° to 120° horizontally and 40° to 80° ver- tically for the farthest and nearest spectators respectively. The intent is to create an illusion of “being there,” rather than to present a “normal” ‘motion picture through a well-defined window. Theatre sizes thus far range from a “small” sereen of 21.3 ft X 32.7 ft, with 120 seats, to the largest IMAX® system presently operating using a 70.5-ft X 96-ft sereen with 988 seats. Larger screens, up {075 ft X 100 fi, are presently in the planning stage ‘Most important, in our view, is to strive for audience viewing angles which approach those encountered in reality; that is, horizontal and vertical angles which extend well into the area ‘of peripheral vision and which require eye/hcad movement to take in the entire pictire The fecling of a large window on reality is found to be en- hanced if the sereen appears to fill the entire front of the theatre, wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling, ‘SMPTE Journal, March 1963 2.808" 725m registration edge lm is projected with emulsion towards lamp (OMNIMAX® — General The traditional planetarium has a flat floor, an elevated centrally-located star projector, a concentrically-seated audience surrounding the star projec- tor, and a horizon suggesting an earthbound environment. OMNI- MAX® was developed to break away from these constraints and provide a “Space Theatre.” The first of these was opened in San Diego in 1973, and hhas subsequently been duplicated ina ‘number of other locations. ‘An OMNIMAXE Theatre is char- acterized by: =a tilted dome typically in the range of 25° to 30° steeply raked one-dircctional seating — star projector and other projection equipment positioned to avoid sight-line interference —a strong sense of “space” — enhanced motion-picture capability (OMNIMAX®) to provide much wider program possibilities, in- cluding underwater, terrestrial, and space travel between pertoraiensteet) \ two shaded perforations used for travel registration in projector ‘The OMNIMAX® system uses a fish-eye lens with an included beam angle slightly in excess of 180°. When the physical limitations ofthe picture format (Fig. 2) on the film are taken into account, the result (in a typical tilted dome) isa picture which extends 2 total of 180° laterally, and 20° below ‘and 110° above the horizon for the central viewers ‘Theatre Design Experience with the IMAX® system has altered many earlier concepts of, theatre design. Minimum viewing mum horizontal and ve angles, and maximum vie “are but a few of the items which are affected as we gain experience in de~ signing large-screen theatres for IMAX® format films. Because of the amount of informa- tion on the large format, we aim for a ‘minimum eye-to-screen distance of 35 times geometry screen-width and a ‘maximum distance to the last row ‘equal section to the screen-width (Fig. 3). Center-seat eye horizon is et in the 285
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