Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi

RobotWisdom writes "The new New Yorker magazine has posted two long non-technical articles about the Chudnovsky brothers and their homebrew supercomputers. One is a 1992 article about how they calculated pi to over two billion decimal places using a $70,000 cluster with 16 nodes. The other is a brandnew piece about how they spent months creating a seamless multi-gigabyte image of a fifteenth century tapestry for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tapestries are essentially pixel-art on a non-rigid (cloth) matrix, so the manual labor of photographing it inch by inch had introduced many tiny deformations in the images, which they had to mathematically iron out. Old lo-res pix of the tapestries are on the Met's site, pix of the brothers are in the world brain."

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[A-Z][a-z]*sk[iy] brothers

[YetAnotherName]

Wachowski brothers - The Matrix and other films

Chudnovsky brothers - Supercomputers

I have no brother. Now I know why I'm an utter failure. Oh well, back to Slashdot.

Re:I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothing

[MechaShiva]

I don't wanna sound like a queer or anything, but I think you've got a nice ass.

Re:Gigabyte, gigapixel artwork?

[Sinus0idal]

Mod down.