Could domes have had the function of camera obscura but not anymore?

[antonio glez]

http://vimeo.com/11789304#

i mean seems evident a dome is intended as a camera obscura even oculus in latin means eye

but how is it posible that knowledge isn't any more?

what sense does it make to put a flat lens in the oculus so there's no effect any more? why they don't put the right optics oculus in domes?

it would appear to people as walking of clouds , quite appropiate for the place

well i just found an obscure reference:

http://books.google.es/books?id=F1T...=onepage&q=dome oculus camera obscura&f=false

 

[Evo]

Please post a specific reference, a link to a book is not satisfactory.

 

[antonio glez]

well this is a personal theory slightly backed up by that book( i can't copy paste)

 

[OmCheeto]

hmmm... My personal theory is that it was the predecessor to the sunroof.

http://safe4work.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/sun-roof.jpg

 

[Evo]

well this is a personal theory slightly backed up by that book( i can't copy paste)

That's what I thought, sorry, we don't allow personal theories.