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Nice, but the actual hardware setup looks extremely inefficient,…
nearty $900 worth of beagle boards, doing the job of $180 worth of graphics cards….
you could build a wall nearly 4x the size for the same price…
These would be more energy efficient. To lower costs this could be done using $25 Raspberry Pi’s.
Thats not true, the $25 model has no ethernet, thus can’t be used. They would need to $35 version (plus local taxes). And thats without power supply.
Synchronization could be done over USB on the model A’s but indeed, I did mean the model B (costs 25 of my currency ;).
I’d like to see Sintel in the Planetarium here in Münster(Germany) . They have 6 4K Projectors. That is real HD. :)
The guy presenting this looks like he’d rather be on holiday.
Looks a little bit crazy (ya know, 6 independent computers…), but cool anyway:)
Funny how I could do the same thing with just one of my desktops graphics cards (assuming I had the monitors)
still neat to watch. :D
This kind of setup with the little ARM systems is quite nice to do demos on location with! Here’s a pic of our not-so-mobile setup, the new Collaboratorium at SARA (Amsterdam), consisting of 8 FullHD thin-bezel screens. It shows Big Buck Bunny playing in 1080p and Sintel in 4k, side by side. Servers are Linux-based, btw.