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The World's Largest Game Of Tetris

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-resolution dept.

hax0r writes: "You might be asking yourself: What can I do with 5 months, 10000 christmas lights, a 14 story library, and a Linux box? Why not play Tetris? And they say there are no good games for Linux." There's some QT movies on the site, as well as pictures. The site was slow to respond for me, but if you're patient you should get through.Thanks to Blue Draco for the pix on a fast server.

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  1. Been there, done that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    This has already been done. Check out MIT's Hacks gallery.

  2. Re:Allright by Pathwalker · · Score: 5

    If you want MPEG, I'm running the quicktime files through my converter now, and I'll have them up at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/video/tetris/ in a few minutes.

  3. Re:Office Building Lights? by slim · · Score: 3
    I had big ideas when I was at University. We did a little stunt where we put posters up telling the residents of the three residential tower blocks to look out of their windows at a given time and "copy": I started flashing my desklamp on and off, and within 5 minutes, all three towers were shimmering with flashing lights. That proves is can be done (we had 20 floors in each tower).


    The problem with using the main lights of a building is that if they're striplights (which is likely) they tend to take a few seconds to flicker into life. I don't fancy playing Tetris with that much display latency...

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  4. Man, if only... by boarder · · Score: 3
    If I lived within 200 miles of this, I'd over there in a flash. I want nothing more right now than to play Tetris on a 14 story building.

    Seriously, though, the only flaw I saw in their system was the refresh rate. I know when I play, the pieces are moving so fast that their "screen" wouldn't be able to keep up (I'm not trying to brag).

    Are there any Tetris masters out there who have had a chance to play on this beast? I would like to know how well it keeps up with really fast play.

    For reference: I have scored 470,000 points on the Nintendo version and have broken computer versions by playing too fast. There was a version playing on the Internet that kept a global high score list and I was always at the top. I would love to hear some other people's high scores to have something against which I can compete.

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  5. Nintendo will sue them by weave · · Score: 3
    Don't they know there is a patent on Tetris?!

    # 5,265,888

  6. Office Building Lights? by QuantumG · · Score: 3


    Forget christmas lights! Ya know all them HUGE buildings they have in the city with ten offices per floor on the one side? Well that is begging for a good tetrisizing already! Maybe when ip6 goes hardcore and they give every office light an IP some leet crackers will do this :)

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  7. I personally think.. by citizenc · · Score: 3

    .. that this proves, once and for all, that size does, in fact, matter ;)

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  8. Soon comes the FUD by DanaL · · Score: 5

    Tomorrow, you'll hear of someone running Ghost n Goblins on an NT box running *100,000* Christmas lights.

    Then, Sun will insist that Java is the best platform for this sort of thing and promptly release the Java Christmas Light Interface API :)

    Dana

  9. Re:hehe by MattXVI · · Score: 3

    Now, I'll laugh if Rob Malda does that to the Slashdot home page.

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  10. Very Very Very Cool by edibleplastic · · Score: 5

    I actually was visitng Brown last night and happened to be walking by the Science Library when they started testing it. At first I thought it was just random lights on the building, but then I was able to make out the individual pieces falling and rotating. All of the familiar l's, straight lines, and t's were there, among the other ones and they were actually playing tetris! It was also really funny because they had a boombox playing the music from the original tetris, completing the experience!

    It looks like they have the basic system down, they just need to work on the refresh rates, because as of last night it was done floor by floor, so if you moved a piece right, it would sort of move to the right line by line. But all in all a very impressive set up!

  11. Allright by fluxrad · · Score: 5

    This marks a great day in history for the triumph of linux!! Now linux can do everything!!!

    Oh - you'll have to excuse me. i need to jump on my windows box to actually WATCH the movie!!

    Final notice: if your last name is Sorensen, or you have anything to do with QT - i'm coming to kick your ass!!!!!


    FluX

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  12. Hack idea... by IO+ERROR · · Score: 3
    How about binding a red, green, and blue light together, making each of them individually controllable, and then putting, say, 786,432 of these into a 1024x768 matrix? It could be the world's largest monitor.

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  13. mandatory quake post by maniack · · Score: 3

    So when can I start playing quake with christmas lights?

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  14. nice, but no record by refried+noodle · · Score: 5

    Tetris for buildings is all nice and well, but the record is still set in 1995 in the netherlands by the association for electrical engineering students. check http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/movegi f.html (or the guiness book of records)