MIT students turn whole building into huge game of Tetris
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Close up of the ground-level control unit used to rotate and move blocks on the Building 54 Tetris display matrix (Photo: Erik Nygren)
An alumni plays supersized Tetris as students look on (Photo: Erik Nygren)
The Tetris control unit that hackers used to control gameplay (Photo: Erik Nygren)
Lines containing gaps remain onscreen until there's no more room for the blocks to fall and the game is lost, at which point all of the blocks tumble down and off the grid (Photo: Erik Nygren)
Level 2 with more pastel colors, with the Green Building behind the Great Sail (Photo: Erik Nygren)
Building 54 mid game, does the player fit that shape into the grid without leaving a gap? (Photo: Erik Nygren)
A mysterious group of MIT hackers has taken over the grid of windows on the front of the Institute's Building 54 to create a monster game of Tetris (Photo: Erik Nygren)
The two-hundred and ninety-five feet (ninety meter) tall Building 54 on MIT's Cambridge campus has become the canvas for a number of carefully planned and daringly executed visual displays over the years, not strictly allowed by the administration but often looked upon with some appreciation. The building is home to the Institute's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science (EAPS) and has a host of meteorological instruments and radio communications equipment on its roof - but its the grid-like windows to the front that have become the main attraction to hackers, as they are known. The latest hack is the successful realization of a long-standing challenge, a huge playable game of Tetris.
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