a 4-projector system that displays images on a spherical screen. the Science on a Sphere system can display & animate vast amounts of visual data from the Earth, Moon, Sun & the other planets. the sphere is suspended by thin wires, so that animating the image data gives the illusion of a free-floating, rotating world.
see also 3d display & pyrotechnic display.
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Ahh this is a cool way to understand & teach.
theres a similar orb in the tokyo science museum, using small LCD screens - but this looks better / not so fragmented ...
this thing is in jPod by Doug Copeland, quite a good book by a real good writer. Read it.