While doing a major research for my master thesis from interactive architecture i found this cool idea from electrical engineering students at the Delft University of Technology. They have build an interactive 3D-display called MatriXX with 8000(!) ping pong balls equipped with red LED lights. At the moment this is the biggest 3D-display on the world having 8 metres in width, 4 metres in height and 2 metres in depth. It plays your favourite games like snake, pong, duckhunt and it can also display SMS messages, simple animations, movies – all that with freaky 3rd dimension. Go for it ppl!
P.S.
For this installation 3.2 km of wire was used.
WHY?
Short answer (1): Because the ETV (association for electrical engineering students at the TU Delft, The Netherlands) celebrates her 100th birthday this year.
Short answer (2): Because we can.
Long answer:
Part of the centennial celebration is this 'lustrumstunt', which is performed every 5 years. The MatriXX is based on an idea by James Clarr. The ETV is an association with a rich history. For over a hundred years, she has organized many study related activities for the electrical engineering students in Delft. These activities include lectures, excursions, symposia and study trips. In 1930 the ETV was the first association for students to travel to the United States of America. During the sixties she founded two other associations for electrical engineering students at other universities. Beside that she helped to start the European association for electrical engineering students. The ETV is not unknown in the media. Ten years ago the ETV wrote history with the largest Tetris-game in the world, projected on the building of the faculty. Five years later the same idea was used, but now to send sms-messages to the building. For that stunt 300 lamps, 3 kilometres of cable and 1500 metres of paper were used. The current stunt will exceed these numbers.
