Largest 3D Graphics Display Known as Cubatron

From year 2004-2006, Cubatron was created as the world’s largest true 3D color graphic display.

The creation consists of 729 voxels or 3D pixels arranged in 9×9×9 matrix with 10 inches spacing apart from each other while having 8×8×8 feet size. To display 21-bit RGB color, a 40mm diameter ball can be set independently on each voxel. The update can take about 30 times per second for the entire display. In order for the viewer to see through the cube, the voxels float in the air with a view of most of voxels from any position.

A variety of amazing stuffs is generated by a UNIX box, which are continuously displayed on the Cubatron where over 35 effects are currently lasting about 35 minutes total. Each voxel has a microcontroller on it and there are 27 strings of 27 voxels. An address of 1-27 is assigned on each string which is sent suing a special synchronous protocol. It consists of a frame which contains RGB data for each of the 27 voxels on the string that is controlled by a PIC12F629 microcontroller. The Cubatron needs 100K bytes of data per second.

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