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Homemade Hypercube Case
blkmagic writes "I have to say this is probably the most amazing homemade case I've seen. The HyperCube^2 was inspired by Vincenzo Natali's first film, Cube. This is a long article, so here's a link to the gallery of images of the final product. I read about this on CubeOwner.com, a Cube site with a slightly different focus."
Excellent first movie with a not-so-good sequel. The case is awesome, though. I'm still looking forward to Cube Zero. w00t for Canadian movies!
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The site's still pretty responsive, but I still coralized all of the pages before it came out of TMF.
ummm, yeah, this is for people who enjoy putting together stuff themselves...
The coralized site seems to be hurting more than the original site.
The website has been slashdotted into the fourth dimension.
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Worked fine at the time of this posting, hopefully it being a Coral link it shoud last a little longer than the rest.
http://users.telenet.be.nyud.net:8090/hypercube/
Coral links just in case:c le/152/
t icle/152/ 17
http://www.bit-tech.net.nyud.net:8090/arti
link to image gallery
http://www.bit-tech.net.nyud.net:8090/ar
Everytime I try something like that, it is eligible for the trash bin.
Jerry
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so here was a link to the gallery of images of the final product.
You must be new here... Let's get these two out of the way.
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As usual the coral link is worse than the site.
http://mirrordot.org/stories/fc070e13d35d3c0d9f159 7ce68c7c759/index.html 0 a945f599743/index.html 1 34e12dc14d9/index.html
http://mirrordot.org/stories/acdd5fb24bf7d200d50f
http://mirrordot.org/stories/735e561773e4ab255155
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I want him to design the next Fry's Electronics "theme store" that they put up around Silicon Valley. It should look just like that hypercube2 case. Yow!
I really think people going overboard with these types of things is cool however, i would really like to see some effort being put into very clean looking cases. Ones that really make people drool over the beauty that a computer can be. I know off the shelf computers that look like things other than computers exist, I just sometimes wonder why they aren't featured that often, especially when things like this are so opinionated it is hard to say what is worth noting and what is not.
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to be honest I have found that coralized links really don't work that well. The idea is nice, but has failed so many times.
...That all your calculus and factor-giant-numbers-in-their-head friends have one too so that when they throw you into the Hypercube for copyright infringement you can find your way out.
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I knew he couldn't pull off this case design in 3 dimensions. 6 ... well that makes things easy!
:)
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If I had 3 extra dimensions to hide all the duct tape and string in I'm sure I could make a pretty cool case too
-S
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All you have to do to make your case mod twice as cool, apparently, is make it twice the size!
That's easily the coolest case I've ever seen.
It's easily the worst movie I have ever seen.
I watched it in a marathon with Sphere, and Sphere was the good one!
This is absolutely awesome. The movie (hypercube), I agree, was terrible, but this case is amazing. I want one.
Ah! That's the secret...it DOES exist in 4D. You just can't see the other one. :))
Seriously, isn't there a mathematical projection, i.e. a 3D "shadow" that a hypercube would cast if it existed that's pretty cool looking? I recall seeing a drawing long, long ago. Uh, I think the shadow is infinitly large so they only draw a segment, but it was neat anyway.
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I went to the site expecting to see a computer case built in the shape of a tesseract. Damn!
....it still just looks like a regular old cube to me..
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Hey! Am I the first person to wonder why Slashdot doesn't cache the stuff they link to, so that when it gets killed we can still see it? Gee, it would take someone 2 or 3 minutes to do it on a big site, 15 seconds on a single page thing. I mean, /. regularly busts people's bandwith allocation, all the while making money off the ads on the page that everyone links from. Doesn't anyone there (at /.) think it would be nice to at least spring for a $100 hard drive and cache the pages for a few days? Lots of times some reader does it knowing the site will get put offline, but why should it be up to good hearted readers? Why doesn't OSTG do it? Would that kill them? Should we take up a collection? Or am I all wet?
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Should be a little quicker now :) Traffic out of the img box has just doubled since i changed Apache's conf :P
"This is not a meaningful form of hardware hacking" and slashdot content is limited to "hardware hacking" ??
Anyone else think the pictures in the 'final product' linked page are just 3d renders? The lighting and geometry is great, but too perfect to have been taken in a real room under real lighting conditions. Nice 3d model though.
Am I the only one who thinks that case isn't, um, how to put this, worthy of its own /. article? For Crissakes, it's not even a proper hypercube! I know it's the holidays and everyone's all fat 'n' content, but can't you come up with better filler than this?
OK, so you can't make a friggin' hypercube... But then don't call it that! Sheesh! And if you *must* use the name, can't you make it more interesting than just some white lights shining through plexiglass? How about some mirrors or something inside to at least mimic the illusion of having an actual tesseract case?
My $0.02...
Well, whatever; back to eating.
On the subject of the case it's beautiful. He should see if Lian Li or Coolermaster would be willing to license his design and produce these for the rest of us. I'd love to have one of these, it's cool looking and lots of fun.
Of course if it were truly four dimensional that would be even better, perhaps if he could get some mono-isotopic unobtainium to fabricate the next version of this he could pull it off.
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IRT Hypercube, the basic story may have been simillar, but the plot wasn't nearly as good (Come on, no -logical- way of escaping?) and the character development was very weak in comparison. It may have been a decent movie, but a lot of us were still disappointed.
IANAM (I am not a mathematician), although I did pass Calc 3, Linear Algebra and AP Statistics, but a tesseract projection shouldn't be infinitely large. You can think about the projection into 3D by analogy: let's say you start with a square, and want to make a cube. All you have to extrude the square upwards. If you look from the top down, however, it looks almost like a square still. Then, if you look at it isometrically, it looks like you dragged a copy of the square at a 45 degree angle from the original and connected it point for point with the original. The 3D projection of a hypercube similarly looks like two cubes, seperated orthoginally depending on the hypercube's rotation in 4D, but connected point for point. At the correct orientation in 4D, it'll actually be a cube. Here's some sites that explain it better and include pretty pictures:
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/outreach/4-cube/
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/sr/hypercube.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hypercube.html
Character development was weak in comparison? Well, maybe. But When you consider how crapulent the first movie was in this respect, it's probably not even worth making any kind of comparison.
I saw the first Cube during the early arthouse circuit in 1997, and even sans any kind of underground "cult movie" hype it still sucked.
But at least the inexplicable popularity of the movie answered one question for me: Who the hell were the people responsible for continuing the drawn-out death of the X-Files after it became obvious that There Was No Big Vision? The answer: Cube fans! Dress a turd up in enough psuedo(x) (replace x with "Science" or "Philosophy" or indeed "Dialogue" as you see fit) and you're bound to convince some people that you're a genius...
Now, while we're here, I've got this religion I'm starting...
.. That case looks absolutely fantastic. First case mod I've ever seen that really Doesn't Suck.
:{ but then again it's not the same if you haven't made it yourself.
:D (I'll be surprised if anyone here has heard of IIDX.)
Mad amount of effort put into it but damn that shit's gorgeous. I want one
Maybe this guy could help me build my IIDX ASC
If I remember the movie correctly, I think the blue screen of death has an entirely new meaning when using this case... I suspect upgrading to the newest specs may literally cost an arm and a leg. Possibly an eye as well.
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I knew it had nothing to do with aliens ; it shows clearly a power outlet, something "they" are probably very much more advanced in... (tinfoil hat -is- on so I ain't being brainprogrammed he*$#)
.. where the ending is a big difference with the first one (no spoilers).
I have The Cube and Hypercube(2) on DVD and am glad I bought them... Although the first, older one looks more "realistically" in effects it's still a fascinating sci-fi/mystery/thriller with certain horror effects ; the second one is more sf and advanced
I like the design of the case even more, but certainly because I have seen the movies a few times and it has a certain designaspect/boxed scenario; I wonder why no more case manufacturers go behind these designs and give the PC a breeze-for-the-eye too...
The Alienware cases are nice, but the costprice is too high; there should be interests to beautify the cases in such a drastic matter ? (not a box like usually)...
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The trailer link on IMDb is no longer valid. Does anyone have a working one? I checked Movie-List and Trailers World, and both had broken links.
:)
Thank you in advance.
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Not twice the size, four times the volume.
"Very clean looking cases" tend to be boring. Let's compare to other instances of aesthetically pleasing objects:
First, cars. Cars have quite a few constraints on their external shape. Designs we appreciate integrate well with these constraints - for example, smooth lines between and around features that absolutely have to be there, like wheels and windshield glass. Alternatively, some good designs may defy convention, by having deliberately boxy or unstreamlined shapes.
Similarly, in building architecture, designs which either contrast with or integrate well into their environment tend to be appreciated. The famous architect Frank Gehry has done both: the Bilbao Guggenheim is applauded for how well it integrates into its physical setting. By contrast, MIT's Stata Center is a complete shock, utterly unlike its surroundings, or any other building, for that matter. Again, in the case of buildings, there are some significant constraints - people need to get in and out of them, they tend to need windows, entrances and exits have to be at certain levels (usually ground level!) and they may require external features such as balconies. "Clean looking designs" for buildings have to fit in with these constraints.
Unlike any of this, the requirements on a computer case are minimal: almost anything goes. You can pretty much install a computer in any shaped object you want, and people have done exactly that. A perfectly smooth cube or sphere would be "clean looking", but is that what you're talking about? I suspect it would be pretty boring. For example, inside the transparent plastic, the Apple G4 cube had a relatively smooth, featureless case - very clean looking - which they felt the need to jazz up by inserting it into a transparent shell, which had no purpose other than to look cool (and in fact led to quality problems).
The point is that in the absence of other constraints, "clean looking" gets you very quickly to boring featurelessness. What we see happening with computer cases instead is that people impose arbitrary external constraints on their custom cases, in order to give them meaning. In the current story, the external constraint is that of a hypercube, but we've seen all sorts of other examples. The more constraining the requirement is, the more challenging and interesting the resulting case tends to be. That's a big reason this hypercube case is interesting.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! :)
With nodes changing location within the cluster according to some obscure formula... and killing unsuspecting operators
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Twice the size in which dimensions?
If it is twice as high, wide and deep then it's actually eight times the size.
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And does it allow for four simultaneous computers to exist within one? It must if it claims to be cubic.
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Why would you base a case design on such a crappy movie?
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