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Take a Look at Apple's Hyperwall of 10,800 Apps [Video]

Take a Look at Apple's Hyperwall of 10,800 Apps [Video]

Posted June 8, 2010 at 11:32am by iClarified
Apple has erected a video wall at WWDC containing 30 synchronized 24-inch LED screens that fill up with 10,800 apps as they are being downloaded.

“This hyperwall is powered by 30 Mac Pro towers with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and EVGA NVIDIA GTX 285 graphics cards. As apps are downloaded from the App Store, their data is coalesced via an XML feed every five minutes. Apps are sorted and scheduled using Cocoa and Objective-C. The data is then passed to an OpenCL kernle, which drives the animation. Quartz Composer brings all the technologies together and renders the final synchonized output using Quartz Composer Visualizer.”

Take a look below...


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stevo
stevo - June 9, 2010 at 3:58am
Leave it up to apple to make something so simple look this cool :)
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