lustrum.etv.tudelft.nl — Students at the Delft University of Technology created the world's largest 3D display. It measures 2 x 4 x 8 meters and consists of 8000 red LEDs with pingpong balls to diffuse the light. Applications include 3D snake, 3D pong, sms-display features and various animations. Live video will available at the opening this evening (21:00 GMT+2)
Apr 23, 2006 View in Crawl 4
tktinoApr 23, 2006
I do this stuff at home, but not this big...I have to say, it does look like fine work
Closed AccountApr 23, 2006
That's what people said when Jobs and Woz showed off the first PC they made, and look at them now. :-p
slicedorangesApr 23, 2006
Things like this always have bland names. It's awesome though.
yoctoyottaApr 23, 2006
@ spidermanYou aren't black, are you?
bullonApr 24, 2006
even though it doesn't look too impressive on video, it's still frickin cool! especially the way it's made, with ping pong balls as the "pixels"
vtwinApr 25, 2006
Wow, I love this, make a bigger version of this, in color! 256x240x32 would be optimal for what I need.That way It'll be possible to directly feed Metroid Cubed and Zelda Cubed into the display since it's a volumetric display using voxels, it fits perfectly.
vtwinApr 25, 2006
It goes to show how you are missing the point of it...It's a volumetric display... it does things your 3d display with glasses cannot do at all. Try to look at your "3d" images from the side... or even from the back! You'll see nothing... with your screen and glasses, you are stuck in one point of view.This display you can walk around it, and see it from just about every angle possible.As for the crappy resolution... let's say you make a volumetric display with a resolution of 1000x1000x1000... That would require wiring and controlling 1,000,000,000 leds! As you increase resolution, volumetric displays increase the number of voxels exponentially (^3). Having a resolution of 10x10x10 already requires you to wire 1000 leds. If you have to wire that many leds you'd better have an easy way to do it, and this is what this installation is about. They used a very clever technique to sustain the leds inside ping pong balls using diagonally tensed wires.It's just a start, volumetric displays are the future, and while leds may not be the best and ultimate way to create such a display, we have to start somewhere.