[Beowulf] DIY CAVE - Liquid Galaxy

Gavin W. Burris bug at sas.upenn.edu
Mon Oct 4 09:40:45 PDT 2010


Neat!  I have built tiled display walls in the past.  You can also do a
similar thing for any video that VLC will play.  Or you can use the DMX
project to link all Xorg displays into one giant interactive desktop.
http://viz.aset.psu.edu/ga5in/DisplayWall.html

On 10/04/2010 11:04 AM, Hearns, John wrote:
> Yet again another Register article...
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/liquid-galaxy/
> 
> 
> Might be interesting, as this is a cluster of computers used to make an
> immersive visualisation setup.
> The 'secret sauce' is a feature in Google Earth which makes it really
> easy to slave displays together:
> 
> 
> If send == true, sets the IP where the datagrams are sent
> ; Can be a broadcast address
> ViewSync/hostname = SLAVE_IP_GOES_HERE
> ViewSync/port = 21567
> 
> 
> 
> John Hearns
> McLaren Racing
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Gavin W. Burris
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Information Security and Unix Systems
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania



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