What Would You Do With 50 Apple 30" Cinema Displays? (Photos)

[tweek]

What Would You Do With 50 Apple 30" Cinema Displays? (Photos)

[imabs]

and how many Mac G5s are there for you to be able to use the 50 cinema displays, dude?

hehehehe

[Polar Mac]

Now thats just plain showing off... hehe : p

[empty]

And it isn't even big enough to show his entire desktop.

[elbert]

I recall reading about UC Irvine's HiPerWall here in PhilMUG last year, but I can't seem to find it.

TUAW was one of the first to report it. It's still fascinating today.

Gigantic HiPerWall of Cinema Displays at UC Irvine
Posted Oct 25th 2005 1:00PM by Laurie A. Duncan
Filed under: Video, PowerMac G5
Researches at the University of California at Irvinve have linked fifty 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays together to create what may be the world's largest television, called HiPerWall (Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall).

Driven by 25 Power Mac G5s, UCI's specially-developed software spreads a single image across all 50 displays making it a natural for medical imaging and satellite photography that previously had to be viewed in fragments. The software was developed by the team at the Calit2 Center of GRAVITY (Graphics, Visualization and Imaging Technology).

Next up, according to Falko Kuester, one of the system's designers, is 3-D and a consumer-level version that supports 3 or 4 displays, enabling you to have a giant wall of video in your own home. That sure is a far cry from watching last night's Lost on your teensy weensie video iPod. Make it cost about the same as a 50" Plasma and I'll take two!

Each G5 was loaded with 2GB's of RAM, and the entire screen measures 192-inches diagonally and sports a maximum resolution of 25,600 x 8000 (multiplied, it's a total 204,800,000 pixels!).