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UPDATE: Darwinia on the BIGGEST screen you can ...

Postby StuntRaceFX » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:38 am

.... imagine. Consider what it would be like to play it on this setup:

http://www.plastk.net/

Pretty, pretty, pretty good ... don't you think? I reckon these research students wouldn't have a problem with getting the Linux version of the game to run on that monster.

If you (and especially some of the Introvesion team) would like to know more about this, the official website of this crazy great research project is:

http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/gigapixel/

Makes me wonder if Defcon will be as scaleable to uber high resolution setups. In fact imagine playing it or Darwina via a 4K res DLP projector in a cinema. Man, that would be something.
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Postby TheShifter » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:21 am

that would be really cool. i want all those screens a computer that is good enough to cope with them. :D

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Postby Stewsburntmonkey » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:49 pm

You can scale anything. . .
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Postby prophile » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:40 pm

Imagine Darwinia in the London iMax Cinema, hehe :D
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Postby TheShifter » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:37 pm

imagine any game on the London iMax

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Postby xander » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:20 pm

When I studied at Pomona College in southern California, the guys from Harvey Mudd (the engineering school on the campus, where the ratio of men to women was a fairly close approximation of pi) rigged up a very expensive sound and projector system and played Super Mario Brothers on the side of a five story building. Not quite IMAX, but fun, none the less.

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Postby shinygerbil » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:39 am

Damn that's cool :D

And on a slight side note, I'm a projectionist at a cinema with a digital projector. That's Cineworld Wandsworth, in south London. Hmmm... I see a nice little video input on the front of the box ;)

Unfortunately I don't know if it would be possible to sync the sound... I think the coolest thing about playing games in the cinema would be the huge 6-speaker surround system with 2 subs :P :P

*drools*

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Postby hitm4n » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:29 pm

Take a digi camera too. Show us how you set it up, take some pics of it in action. Maybe record a teeny 20-30 video ?? My digi camera does this but without sound, and low res (old camera) but it'll serve its purpose :) Really, DO IT !!
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Postby NeoThermic » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:40 pm

hitm4n wrote:Take a digi camera too. Show us how you set it up, take some pics of it in action. Maybe record a teeny 20-30 video ?? My digi camera does this but without sound, and low res (old camera) but it'll serve its purpose :) Really, DO IT !!


Quoted because you have to. You'll just score a billion respsect points for it.

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Postby xander » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:40 pm

I am in total agreement with hitm4n and NeoThermic. It must be done. On a scale from one to awesome, it would be at least awesome^2. DO EET!

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Postby N0ught » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:28 pm

I really think ALL of those small flat-panel monitors would cost WAY more than just one large one.

Not to mention the equipment and software required to run them...

It's a cool experiment, but as far as First-Person-Shooters go, all of those blind spots would suck.

All-in-all a big-screen LCD tv with an adapter to run it off a computer would be more feasable. Plus you could watch tv on it. :)

As far as the theater thing goes: Hells yeah! Do it.

Do it. :twisted:
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Postby shinygerbil » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:51 pm

N0ught wrote:Do it. :twisted:


xander wrote:DO EET!


NeoThermic wrote:...you have to.


hitm4n wrote:Really, DO IT !!


Well, ok, if I can, but I'll have to get some cables and borrow a digi camera first ;) gimme a couple of weeks!

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Postby Major Cooke » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:11 pm

That would be really cool to do that... Try out the Dell Renegade XPS 600's new screen, or Alienware's quad displays/giant hybrid TV.

(Dell recently bought Alienware so dell now owns them, but alienware hasn't changed a bit)
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Postby shinygerbil » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:55 pm

Major Cooke wrote:(Dell recently bought Alienware so dell now owns them, but alienware hasn't changed a bit)


:shock:

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Postby Battlefrank » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:06 pm

damnit i need a monitor 6000x4800 meters, that it a billboard, so the whole world knows what im doing!

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