6 Oct
2009
6 Oct
'09
10:18 a.m.
Hi,
Although this video is old (uploaded to YouTube Jan 2007) I thought I would mention it. (I
didn't get any hits when searching for "Tetris" in the archives)
"Brown's University fourteen-story Sciences Library transformed
into a giant video display which allows bystanders to play a game of
Tetris which can be seen for several miles."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIRWoo9qrU
It's a shame that there's no sound, or music, but it's pretty cool
nonetheless.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
6 Oct
6 Oct
10:30 a.m.
Although this video is old (uploaded to YouTube Jan
2007) I thought I would mention it. (I didn't get any hits when searching for
"Tetris" in the archives)
"Brown's University fourteen-story Sciences Library transformed
into a giant video display which allows bystanders to play a game of
Tetris which can be seen for several miles."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIRWoo9qrU
It's a shame that there's no sound, or music, but it's pretty cool
nonetheless.
Back in the late 1980s, a classmate of mine that was interning at
Johnson Controls in Milwaukee tried to do this, but the lights were
just too sluggish for any sort of decent gameplay. Once seeing this,
he gave up on the idea, pretty much stillborn.
I think most engineering schools at the time had someone like him with
the same "Tetris building" idea, but most (all?) gave up or ran into
time limits. It would be interesting to see who managed this hack
first.
--
Will
10:40 a.m.
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, William Donzelli wrote:
I think most engineering schools at the time had
someone like him with
the same "Tetris building" idea, but most (all?) gave up or ran into
time limits. It would be interesting to see who managed this hack
first.
I could have sworn that MIT hackers did it, but a little research
indicates that it was only done on a scale model on the TMRC layout:
http://tmrc.mit.edu/TNP/GC/GreenBuilding.html
I remember seeing the layout on a trip to MIT. I'm sure Will has seen
it. :-)
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
11:08 a.m.
? I could have sworn that MIT hackers did it, but a
little research
indicates that it was only done on a scale model on the TMRC layout:
http://tmrc.mit.edu/TNP/GC/GreenBuilding.html
Well, that sort of doesn't count. For one, it gets around the whole
real world light-lag problem.
? I remember seeing the layout on a trip to MIT.
?I'm sure Will has seen it.
?:-)
Nope. I would probably get beaten up if I saw it.
Anyway, thanks for the reminder - I need to get my MIT flea money in today.
--
Will
7 Oct
7 Oct
12:43 a.m.
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:30:58 -0400
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
It would be interesting to see who managed this hack
first.
Maybe not the first, but they did it in 2001:
http://www.blinkenlights.net/
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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