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- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38Pacman would have a field day in that thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13That's what people said when Jobs and Woz showed off the first PC they made, and look at them now. :-p
- theholycow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I love the Amstel crate they used as a housing.
Wouldn't 3d pong be easier with _one_ ping pong ball, a table, and a couple paddles? - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There are a couple of videos on the site.
I love how relatively low-tech the actual hardware is. - pantala, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Too bad they didn't give props to the original, Cubatron.
http://www.nw.com/nw/projects/cubatron/
Comparing videos, I would say that although Cubatron has less pixels, the software is capable of displaying much more fluid animation and the whole thing is much more interesting since it can display 21-bit color. Cubatron's successor, the Big Round Cubatron will blow this thing out of the water. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, but that's not "cool."
- xAXISx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Oh my god! I can play Pong in 3Ds!?"
Heard of a ping pong table? - tomatoenator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3this is really cool. I wonder if you could do one that would be the size a large building or something
- shitsite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Would have been nice to see it in action...
- bullon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1even 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"
- abeerge30, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4The end result wasn't that impressive looking considering how much labor they put into it.
Not really enough pixels to do anything interesting and you seen how much time it took to build a single frame. I'd be more impressed if this was a grade school science project - vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13D pixels are called voxels :) (for VOlume piXEL)
- vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It 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. - slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Things like this always have bland names. It's awesome though.
- vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1[Deleted]
- vhtrading, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow...even after viewing the videos it's very UNimpressive. These may look cool in another 5-10 years, but right now it's very underwhelming and lame. It looks like 1980s technology. Even 2D "chaser lights" displays from 10 years ago are cooler than this.
- vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, 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. - tktino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I do this stuff at home, but not this big...
I have to say, it does look like fine work - zooklubba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Playing duckhunt on that thing would be so awesome!
- norris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I have polarizing glasses and my 3d display (monitor), while smaller, has a little more that 150x better resolution. It works with all OpenGL programs, and cost hardly more than $50.
- YoctoYotta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@ spiderman
You aren't black, are you? - tktino, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4I didn't like it... it seem so bla
- shitsite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Oops, missed the link that said 'video' ;-)
- MephistoX, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Nice
- gschoots, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3If you are even going to mention goatse dan pronounce it the proper way it is goatse.cx and the last two letters are part of the expression..... and still I don't see the relevance here.
Being a dutch citizen I can honestly say I am very proud of this achievement, and every step closer to "Help me obi wan kenobi" is worth mentioning! - Daychilde, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Hmm... the pic entitled "Inside the MatrixX" -- that's not how I envisioned it.... and where IS Neo, anyway?
/all joking aside, it's awesome :D - Proginoskes, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Can't you delete a comment? Move along. I put something stupid here and then rewrote it to this.
- DIGGADEEP, on 10/12/2007, -36/+4goatse ftw
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