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- VenDrake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Way too long to read it all.
Way too cool not to digg it.
+digg - thordreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, Its so funny to see this written up as I went to this show. Man it was fun, the author does an excellent job of capturing that. It was at ACM SIGGRAPH 91, just before they started their yearly electronic theater(top short animations of the show, think Pixar's shorts). Haven't be free lately to attend, but I do remember the show having fun little group games like that often. For CG & animation crowd definitely worth a look, http://www.siggraph.org/
- barium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2| .
/ someone hit it - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"where is the game?... im not reading all that crap..."
somewhere in the article, it says where the game is, but i'm not telling you ;p - hyperation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2' |
Got it~ - alexa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was there (and I think I still have the paddle) and even after 15 years of SIGGRAPH shows, this still remains one of my favorite interactive events. Imagine a huge room at the Las Vegas Conference Center with rows of folding chairs. If I remember right, each person's chair was represented by a pixel on the smaller screen next to the main screen with the Pong style game. The paddle had 2 colors on it (one on each side). To move the slider up and down on your side of the Pong game, your side of the room needed to be projecting one color or the other. It was crazy - people kept yelling which color to switch to and totally got into it. It has been the best "hive" type effect I've ever seen in the arts.
- aliekens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Having such a game of Pong online could really put this story to the test, especially with a digg-sized audience.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sure some pot can reproduce this experience with one person and one paddle.
- WikiTerra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this guy's actually one hella interesting dude. He co-founded Wired. I looked on Amazon, this book is cited by 171 others. Wow.
- ATLBeer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One of best things on digg in a really long time.
This could probably be duplicated in an AJAX type enviroment. Although def not as amazing as it would be in real life. - tj9991, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too... much... text...
Life... draining...
+digg - Ultim8Fury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I quit reading on the second page, but really interesting stuff nonetheless. Good find, interesting social experiment. +digg
- Killgore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read most of this and it was really cool!
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ad worked, I bought the book :p
J - Dash-2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like reading.. but thats way to much..
- JAFFA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its actually worth reading to get past the 'pong' segment and onto the 'flight sim' part. Very interesting reading.
Dugg - superdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very interesting, i didn't know humans had that kind of hive mentality! very dugg!
- jbmicastorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Uh...I thought it would be a real game of pong...damn! That would be so cool to play with a hundred other people.
- 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The article is quite interesting, but it's about much more than just a 5000-man game of Pong. Though I guess to get frontpaged you have to highlight the obvious charms.
- professorhojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0where's the game?
- ThugEsquire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0roflmao @ AromaKat
- AromaKat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ahhh... i knew i would use this mac speech thing one day
- Noize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0someone make a flash quick
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 | .
Crap, missed it. - hersman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This should've been an actual game of pong. Not an article.
- ermau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0| ,
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting, but I would have preferred that someone actually WROTE a flash game or something that let us do that...
- energyblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no pictures :'(
But it too cool not to digg. gota love the pong!
+digg - aoeuhtns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0|·
- JesusDeluxe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0interested at first but it lost me a page in digg--
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0|
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| - SirSid, on 05/27/2009, -0/+0I thought that was well written and very intersesting. I might go and buy that book.
- anztac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's so much more to this book then this page... but this page _is_ damned cool!
- rockintom99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was the most interesting thing i have seen in ages.
*buys the book* - Flare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nah... I thought I was going to watch a video of it or something :(
- MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0|
.| - zetetic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good book, although not without some silicon snake oil... dugg
A better page to read would be:
Chapter 24: THE NINE LAWS OF GOD
http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/ch24-a.html
Herein lies the distilled contents of the book. - gnjack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very interesting, amazing.
I wanna go!!!! :D
Deserves this digg.
dugg. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's pong to a whole new level!
- KillerJ59J, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0| -
- AaronCompNetSys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah, does the Digg world comprehend "group think"? I do believe it does!
Slashdot != Groupthink
http://digg.com/design/Keep_Digg_better_than_Slashdot - karch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well, if it were easy to write comments, you never know.
- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm... if i knew anything about networking in flash i would make something like this... it seems easy enough.
- immure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember playing one of these in Futuroscope (http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/) in France, about 7 years ago. The attraction was called Ciné-Jeu, described as "A unique interactive system allows you to play in real time with images projected on the biggest video screen in the park. The spectators are devided into 2 teams and are given electronic hats with red and green reflectors." (http://www.equityschooltravel.co.uk/P_futura.asp).
It's good fun, but old tech. - TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great article.
- gxti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0part of the reason this worked was that the participants were all in one place, so unfortunately making an online version probably wouldn't have the same effect
- aeaglenfitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0someone should actually make an on line game of pong using this concept where each user uses their keys and the actual movement of the paddle was based on the average of all the input
- AllanX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read "Out of Control" about ten years ago. It's the most interesting book I've ever read and it changed the way I think about software and the future.
Highest recommendation. Period. This whole damn book is diggable. Buy it. Read it. - kennon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this book was written in 1994 but it feels unbelievably /fresh/. he arrived at alot of conclusions that are finally coming in vogue.
- MonkeyFCoconut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh, that "article" is part of a book. Literally.. it's really a book! Don't bother reading past the first page that is linked to. To be honest though, I don't think this is the right way to link to a story... whatever though.. information is information.
PING, PONG. -
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