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Display Wall with Google Earth on Mac OS X

By Chris Williams posted on June 14th, 2007

Cool demo of Google Earth at WWDC07 spread across 18 screens using [TG Enhanced Chromium](http://tungstengraphics.com/TG%20Enhanced%20Chromium%20Mac%20OS%20X%20Press%20Release%20June%2011%202007.pdf) from [Tungten Graphics](http://tungstengraphics.com/).

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These screens are hooked to a series of Mac Pros, two displays per Mac Pro. The Macs are simply networked together via gigabit ethernet. Chromium will take any OpenGL app without modification, divide the display into segments and send those segments to the appropriate Mac node for rendering to display.

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No special hardware required. This is primarily intended to allow multi-panel display for scientific visualization applications.

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