The wall of Finland’s largest university dorm was transformed last week into the country’s largest videogame display unit. The facade of the 11-storey building, with nine windows on each floor, then served as a platform for a very impressive light-show, on a giant 9 x 11 pixel screen.Bright LED-lights were placed in the windows of all the apartments in Block D of Mikontalo. During the 3-day “Mikontalolights” event, the wall of the building was used to play Tetris and other popular first-generation video games, and to show off the computer graphics skills of the students at the Tampere University of Technology, who had been dreaming of realising such a project for years. Renovations to the building, which dates from 1980, gave them a suitable “window of opportunity”.
2 comments:
Awesome. in the late 1980s a Japanese architect named Non Ishida came up with the idea of Pic-a-Pix puzzles while working on a geometric pattern windows illumination project on a high-rise building in Tokyo. guess you knew that :)
I have read the Conceptis article's, of course :) I was not sure if they used windows or light bulbs.
We don't have skyscrapers here, so they had to use a simple game like Tetris.
The engineering students are very famous here about their inventions, practical jokes and stuff, regarless where they study: Helsinki, Tampere or Turku :)
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