TLT CoffeeRead: University produces highest-resolution screen in the world for research

Posted on July 28, 2008 
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University produces highest-resolution screen in the world for research.

“University of California, San Diego researchers now have an up-close view of their work, aided by nearly 290 million pixels, after the school built what’s reportedly the highest-resolution screen in the world.

The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a research group affiliated with UC-San Diego, announced earlier this month that it has completed work on the Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Screen (HIPerSpace), which features 286.7 million pixels. The display is 31.8 feet wide and 7.5 feet tall, and it includes 14 columns of screens. The second-highest-resolution screen in the world, NASA’s hyperwall-2, has 256 million pixels. San Diego’s record setter is 30 percent bigger than the university’s last high-resolution display, officials said.”

ITS should produce the one that breaks the 300-million pixel mark. Interesting to note what the plans for this screen.

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  1. dave on July 29th, 2008 9:12 am

    I wonder how far back you have to be for the grid not to be a distraction? I only have 4,608,000 pixels and one separator, but at desktop distances, I always see two displays even when an image spans both. Wouldn’t the distance negate benefits of the resolution? …though I certainly respect the expertise that went into building this wall.

    I wonder where they found a Mac that could power that many displays?

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