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“Can it run Doom?” (Gut bacteria edition)

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As summarized in the linked Ars post, “MIT graduate student Lauren Ramlan outlines a method for creating the quixotic Doom display in "1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media," the final project for a Principles of Synthetic Biology class.”
Title via Ars Technica, who posted a brief description of the project and the 7-minute video: “MIT graduate student Lauren Ramlan outlines a method for creating the quixotic Doom display in ‘1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media,’ the final project for a Principles of Synthetic Biology class.”

Read on: https://arstechnica.com/gaming...

“runs at a blazing 0.00003 fps” 😀
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samh pro 1 year ago
The thumbnail photo used for this is misleading. As is the subject matter in my opinion. Firstly it's just a simulation and no one actually got Doom to display on a grid of E. Coli and even in the simulation the display is full black & white - not grayscale so the resulting image doesn't represent the game really at all.

Worth noting however is a bit more detail on just what that frame rate would mean in reality, ".0.00003 fps frame rate that would stretch a five-hour Doom run into a 599-year slog more appropriate for Ent attention spans than human life spans."
MackReed pro 1 year ago
Candidate for the IgNobel prize right here

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