ARCADE: Blinkenlights with Tetris

BorrisYeltsin writes "The guys from blinkenlights are doing it again, but this time in France on a 26x20 display, for 11 nights at the "Bibliotheque nationale de France" in Paris. This time instead of pong you get to play tetris on this 520 pixel display. Again they need your animations for the project."

Tetris?

[DavidLeblond]

Next stop: Doom III!

Re:Tetris?

[jukal]

>Next stop: Doom III!

Doom III? Boom, boom! Classic, it has to be. Even Wolfenstein 3-D would not make sense, Catacombs then, could already quality as worthy :)

Actually, the correct blinkenlightsism is

[The Pi-Guy]

nicht fur gefingerpoken....

heh...
--j

Why aren't we cool

[mesach]

I wanna know why no one has done anything like this in the u.s?

who's up for it, anyone in L.A.?

Imagine pong on the Capitol Records building... or maybe you could somehow play tempest?!

Re:Why aren't we cool

[GPPL]

mit did do it a while back

Origonal done in 2000 at Brown

[MADCOWbeserk]

Actually it wasn't MIT but Brown University. The did it on the side of the library building, by putting chrismas light behinf the windows. It was put by these guys, Techhouse [brown.edu] Here is the official site [techhouse.org].

Back when it was running I was a URI student, so I lived in the neigborhood. They were very nice guys and even let me play for a little while.

Re:Why aren't we cool

[bp33]

I'd like to see this on one of the monster hotels in Las Vegas. This seems like something they'd even enjoy hosting. Treasure Island faces a lot of the strip .. hmm ...

ACHTUNG!!!

[The Pi-Guy]

Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen
der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht
fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands
in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!!

"they need your animations"

[Anonymous Coward]

Asking slashdot for animations? The only people doing blocky art around here are the trolls. Do we really want to see the goatse man animation on a 20 story building?

Re:"they need your animations"

[davilan]

I dunno about that. If they had a few more pixels, I think someone on Slashdot would be happy to cook up an animation of Bill the Borge getting screwed from behind by a Penguin....

Re:"they need your animations"

[davilan]

Oops maybe I misspelled Borg (or maybe I was just protecting their good name)...

Go to Sleep

[RebelTycoon]

Damn it people... /. a site at 2:15am... People go to bed!

Re:Go to Sleep

[xactoguy]

Yah, I mean, its only 4 AM here, so what? :D

And now for the home version...

[micahjd]

Blinkenlights in your computer's case [sourceforge.net]

Damn you slashdot!

[Stonent1]

Nein! Nein! Das blinkenlights es kaput!

Re:Damn you slashdot!

[RKloti]

Correction:

Die Blinkenlichten sind kaputt.

Re:Damn you slashdot!

[Stonent1]

Yeah, I using my english to colonel Klink translator :)

Re:Imagine...

[Omar Enoryt]

Try thinking before you post next time, dullard.

Might check out this . . .

[OverlordQ]

page for Tetris on buildings: http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/

The ol' Ascii Blinkenlights Star Wars

[Lshmael]

...can still be found by telnetting to towel.blinkenlights.nl. It's not the same as being on the side of a mega-skyscraper, but it was cool the first time I saw it, and is still cool now. I wish that they would update, though.

building pong

[AndyChrist]

How about pong with elevators and hallway lights? [userfriendly.org]

Re:building pong

[aechols]

nice idea but that would be so unbelievably slow unless you overclocked the elevators. overclocked elevators might be fun anyway. whee. *thinks of tower of terror @ mgm*

Invaders

[jukal]

Have they already done Invaders [atariage.com], night driver [stanford.edu] (scroll down) would be also possible - the classic Snake could be fun too. Well, actually, I quess any classic is rather easily portable :)

Re:Invaders

[antdude]

That would be cool, but does the building have enough room to show all those pixels?

Wow, check out the documentary!

[antdude]

Check out its 11 minutes documentary on http://blinkenlights.de/video.en.html [blinkenlights.de]... It was very cool to watch. :)

Global scale

[jukal]

... I wonder if this could be done on global or continental scale. Imagine sitting in your space shuttle and playing Tetris with the lights of America or Europe. Siberia would be a problem though ;) If this is too big, maybe JUST Tokyo-Yokohama scale for example? Just some co-operation, and it could be doable :)

Re:Global scale

[fktup]

Doable but think of the lag!

Re:Global scale with TWO Space Shuttles....

[vortexau]

Eric W. Schwartz [coax.net] (famous computer artist and animator) did a humorous animation years back depicting the game of Shuttle Cock as played by using giant bats manipulated by the deployment arm on each playing Space Shuttle.
.

Blinkenspam

[Zork the Almighty]

Sure classic video games are cool and all, but as soon as the United States catches on to this phenomena we can expect to see Blinkenspam appearing on a building near you. Increase your penis size today, naturally ! . | | 0|0

Re:Blinkenspam

[Zork the Almighty]

Sorry everyone, I forgot that my ASCII art would be killed by slashdot. Anyway, they'll be trying to convince us that some 4 pixel blob on the side of a building is Britney Spears' nippple or something.

tetris keychain?

[dcstimm]

where can I get those neat tetris keychains? A geek cant live with out one! but it has to keep score!

I checked thinkgeek.com and googled for it, even checked ebay.com any ideas?

Brown University already did it in 2000

[wackybrit]

Brown University built a thing just like this and created the world's largest Tetris game. [techhouse.org] Steve Wozniak, a confessed Tetris addict, even went to play on it.

I think it was only a 10 * 12 matrix though.. so perhaps Blinkenlights' attempt will beat their record.. depends on the height of the tower rather than the resolution I guess.

WTC

[Lispy]

I wonder what the "resolution" of the twin towers .would have been..according to this [greatbuildings.com] it had 110 levels but what would the resolution have been if both towers would have acted as one big screen? X x 110...any ideas?

Re:WTC

[Lord Bitman]

Well in order for both to be used as one screen, you'd have to view it at an angle. So that's however many collumns x4, not x2
so, big.

One feature I hope that they leave out

[Xtraneous]

I remmember reading about Blinkenlights, and when I noticed that you could send an sms message to it, all that came to my head was either someone using it as
a) A giant spam-board
or b) a way to increase the web-counter for goatse.cx (no more... PLEASE!)

So now that it will have a higher res, all I find myself thinking is
Please! no more messaging!

On a sidenote, what happens if x (insert large number) all call and try to play at the same time? Or, what happens to a system that has 78000 watts (26*20*150Watts) running through it and gets slashdotted?