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Gigantic HiPerWall of Cinema Displays at UC Irvine
Researches at the University of California at Irvinve have linked fifty 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays together to create what may be the world's largest television, called HiPerWall (Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall).Driven by 25 Power Mac G5s, UCI's specially-developed software spreads a single image across all 50 displays making it a natural for medical imaging and satellite photography that previously had to be viewed in fragments. The software was developed by the team at the Calit2 Center of GRAVITY (Graphics, Visualization and Imaging Technology).
Next up, according to Falko Kuester, one of the system's designers, is 3-D and a consumer-level version that supports 3 or 4 displays, enabling you to have a giant wall of video in your own home. That sure is a far cry from watching last night's Lost on your teensy weensie video iPod. Make it cost about the same as a 50" Plasma and I'll take two!
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Wheels said 1:34PM on 10-25-2005
The only downside: The police might come a'knockin' at your door if you play certain "questionable" content, since the whole neighborhood can see Pamela Anderson, with amazing clarity, by the way, on your gigantic "wall of video," through your front windows.
Score one for the iPod video.
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Eddie said 1:35PM on 10-25-2005
So that's where all my donations at UCI have gone!
Looks nice. I should drop in to see it.
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iBode said 1:38PM on 10-25-2005
If they upgraaded to Quads they'd only need 13.
In fact, selling the 25, they could probably make money off of replacing them.
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Alakath said 4:38PM on 10-25-2005
Haha, I go to UCI, I'm actually posting from my iBook in a Literary Criticism class right now. I'll have to stop by CalIT2 and check this out. It looks pretty cool!
PS - Go Anteaters! Zot!
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