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Tetris Uprising

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Tetris became a pop culture icon. It was starting to show up everywhere from art to buildings (see Tetris Apartments at the very top of this article), to games played in Japan that tried to make a version likened to "human Tetris" where people run towards a cut out in a large piece of wood and had to run through shaping the body to fit in without touching the board (like in the Parker brothers game "Operation").

A guy named Peter Carter of Hastings College created a game where shaped glass cubes are placed one at a time on a game board to create a board game of Tetris (but not your typical board game). See the image above this paragraph to see it in action.

The lights in the building shown on the video above were manipulated with computers to switch on and off to create the illusion of playing Tetris in real time.

In some cases the lights are not showing a preset illusion, but rather someone ACTUALLY playing tetris on a computer that is reflecting their moves to the computer controlling the lights.

I suspect this is the case with the above video. The blocks (windows) would fall just like on a computer screen giving each window or office in the building the job of performing the job of a pixel! 

Tetris even went green. You can actually buy "Tetris Pots" by French Designer Stephanie Choplin.

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The Purdue basketball team were given a treat when a bunch of students in the first row came dressed as various Tetris blocks!

Nobody really knows why, but it sure looks like a great deal of fun doesn't it?