Curved screen or dome having convex quadrilateral tiles

A method of operating a direct-view dome display comprising a plurality of identical convex quadrilateral tiles, each tile being a direct-view display, said tiles being arranged in at least one of a convex hexecontahedral configuration, a dodecahedral configuration or an icosahedral configuration, to provide a spherical, spheroidal or substantially spherical dome, and a full or partial dome display over a horizontal field of view of at least 180° and a vertical field of view of at least 0° to 30°, totaling at least 30° vertical field of view, wherein the convex quadrilateral direct view tiles have a varying pixel structure which optimizes a pixel distribution near edges of the convex quadrilateral tile, the varying pixel configuration being orthogonal or close to orthogonal near corners of the convex quadrilateral direct view tile that are at 90° or close to 90° and varying across the tile to a hexagonal pixel configuration or nearly hexagonal pixel configuration at opposite corners that are different from 90° or substantially different from 90° to match the edges near these corners, a support structure for supporting at least the lower tiles of the dome, the method comprising driving each of the identical convex quadrilateral tiles with image data to provide a combined image.