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As a teenager, I had the opportunity to play and experience the monumental installation Genetic Images by Karl Sims installed at Pompidou Center in 1993. It wa
by juliendorra 5y ago
As a teenager, I had the opportunity to play and experience the monumental installation Genetic Images by Karl Sims installed at Pompidou Center in 1993.
It was using a Connection Machine to render images in realtime:
http://www.karlsims.com/genetic-images.html http://www.karlsims.com/genetic-images.html
The photo at the top of the page is of the installation at Pompidou Center (in the space that is now the staff entrance.)
Genetic Images has only been installed 3 times. Its installation at the Pompidou center as part of the Revue Virtuelle was especially significant at the time, as exhibiting a working super-computer in a museum had never been done, as far as I know.
- rbanffy 5y agoIt's a bit sad that modern supercomputers look like buildings full of 19" racks. This is one of the most beautiful computing machines ever built.
- Sophistifunk 5y agoA sad state I agree, but inevitable when "supercomputers" became something you had to get past bean-counters, rather than just generals and congresscritters.
- convolvatron 5y agoand its actually 19" racks underneath the faring :) there is a little additional enclosure in the middle that contains the sequencers. the lights are just card edge. the cm-5 though was all custom machined, including a lovely card insert-and-lock cam for the modules. the cm5 was stunning, but the cm2 was a fantastic result with a lot less effort and cost.
- rbanffy 5y agoI don't think so. The boards are vertical and they don't look like 19" wide.