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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. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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!

  4. 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

    --
    "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
  5. 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)