From Planetaria Obscura March 2016
Nobody deals with round rooms.
Well some people perhaps have turrets on their houses - Jefferson had an Octagonal Room at Monticello. But I submit a planetarium owner (all 5 of us) have to deal with no corners in ways nobody else does. This is my preferred explanation for why my floor configuration keeps changing. Other explanations include no attention span, easily bored etc, so I prefer the round room difficulty theory. I have literally returned to my original West looking configuration recently, after going from West to North (these are the real directions), North to East, East to South. The land slopes West to East, so spectators, if any, have alternatively been looking a bit up, a bit down, or a bit sideways over the course of the past 10 years. Endless chair configurations have ensued, along with entrances and uses for the addition I put on years ago. My switch last year to rockers (old ones from the house, I have 7) brought the seats out from the round walls so you can .. rock.
But where should I go?
It’s a small 15 foot diameter ’room’. As much as I’ve wanted the console off to the side larger rooms afford, I’m always blocking SOMETHING. Same with sitting in the middle. I finally hit on it this morning. I’ve returned to viewing to the West, with a semi-circular focal point stretch of sky down to the floor (totally circular seating doesn’t work with small round rooms, someone always has stars over their shoulder). It finally dawned on me there was but one unused place in the room - the doorway. And I had to secure the door anyway after people were in. I’ll just put my stool IN THE DOORWAY and not block anything! A small table to one side for accessories.
But I don’t think Thomas Jefferson did it this way.
Nobody deals with round rooms.
Well some people perhaps have turrets on their houses - Jefferson had an Octagonal Room at Monticello. But I submit a planetarium owner (all 5 of us) have to deal with no corners in ways nobody else does. This is my preferred explanation for why my floor configuration keeps changing. Other explanations include no attention span, easily bored etc, so I prefer the round room difficulty theory. I have literally returned to my original West looking configuration recently, after going from West to North (these are the real directions), North to East, East to South. The land slopes West to East, so spectators, if any, have alternatively been looking a bit up, a bit down, or a bit sideways over the course of the past 10 years. Endless chair configurations have ensued, along with entrances and uses for the addition I put on years ago. My switch last year to rockers (old ones from the house, I have 7) brought the seats out from the round walls so you can .. rock.
But where should I go?
It’s a small 15 foot diameter ’room’. As much as I’ve wanted the console off to the side larger rooms afford, I’m always blocking SOMETHING. Same with sitting in the middle. I finally hit on it this morning. I’ve returned to viewing to the West, with a semi-circular focal point stretch of sky down to the floor (totally circular seating doesn’t work with small round rooms, someone always has stars over their shoulder). It finally dawned on me there was but one unused place in the room - the doorway. And I had to secure the door anyway after people were in. I’ll just put my stool IN THE DOORWAY and not block anything! A small table to one side for accessories.
But I don’t think Thomas Jefferson did it this way.
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