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Homemade Hypercube Case 115

Posted by timothy from the see-recursion dept.
blkmagic writes "I have to say this is probably the most amazing homemade case I've seen. The HyperCube^2 was inspired by Vincenzo Natali's first film, Cube. This is a long article, so here's a link to the gallery of images of the final product. I read about this on CubeOwner.com, a Cube site with a slightly different focus."
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  • Movies (Score:5, Interesting)

    by flatface ( 611167 ) * on Sunday December 26, 2004 @05:39PM (#11186855)
    Excellent first movie with a not-so-good sequel. The case is awesome, though. I'm still looking forward to Cube Zero [imdb.com]. w00t for Canadian movies!
    • Cube is one of the best films ever. A must see. 6 sides of the Cube, 6 people, 6 personalities... grat movie!

      Hypercube was crap.

      • Re:Movies (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward
        I have no idea what you're on about. I saw that movie when it did the first circuit of arthouse cinemas, and it was largely forgettable. Apart from the opening sequence, which was good in a tacky-horror kind of a way. Acting was lousy, script was all over the place and completely lacking in any kind of insight, and the movie itself was pretty dull. But I guess if you wrap anything up in enough X-Files bullshit people will think it's great...
      • It was a clever idea, but there was only so far you could take the concept. At the end you were left thinking "WTF???" so of course they needed to make a sequel, which was one of most boring and unwatchable movies I've seen in a long time.
    • The trailer link on IMDb is no longer valid. Does anyone have a working one? I checked Movie-List and Trailers World, and both had broken links.

      Thank you in advance. :)

  • Best part... (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by tommertron ( 640180 ) *
    His girlfriend's pretty hot! [bit-tech.net]
    • I really don't see how you can say that from that angle. I mean alright, there's the cleavage, but what if she's horribly disfigured or something on the right side of her face?

      (Ten minutes later...)

      I was searching for an artical I read somewhere about a porn star that regularly features on some TGPs. She's got a club foot that she hides pretty well most of the time. Sadly, I've found more free porn and must go now...

    • Re:Best part... (Score:5, Funny)

      by CdBee ( 742846 ) on Sunday December 26, 2004 @05:54PM (#11186986)
      Do you think his domain (CubeOwner.com) should be pronounced "Cue Boner..." ?
  • We are the borg, resistance is futile you will be assimilated!

  • Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)

    by eclectro ( 227083 )

    The website has been slashdotted into the fourth dimension.

  • Projectlog (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Worked fine at the time of this posting, hopefully it being a Coral link it shoud last a little longer than the rest.

    http://users.telenet.be.nyud.net:8090/hypercube/ [nyud.net]

  • Coral links (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Coral links just in case:
    http://www.bit-tech.net.nyud.net:8090/artic le/152/

    link to image gallery
    http://www.bit-tech.net.nyud.net:8090/art icle/152/ 17

  • Most impressive (Score:5, Funny)

    by confusion ( 14388 ) on Sunday December 26, 2004 @05:55PM (#11186987) Homepage
    That case is amazing. I really wish I had the ability to work with aluminum that well.

    Everytime I try something like that, it is eligible for the trash bin.

    Jerry
    http://www.syslog.org/ [syslog.org]

    • You see, you're going about it all wrong:
      Everytime I try something like that, it is eligible to be a trash bin.
    • I believe that the guy sent his diagrams to a machine shop that cut the aluminum frame for him (very sensible, but expensive) as well as the stainless steel side panels.

      Aluminum is really hard to cut right unless you have the proper tools, and most shop tools (in a woodshop) are essentially useless and will make a mess of the aluminum. T1-4 can be cut with a die grinder with a carbon blade or a 20-tooth(per inch) hacksaw blade. Even doing that will take a few hours of extra burnishing to get the edges stra
  • so here was a link to the gallery of images of the final product.

    You must be new here... Let's get these two out of the way.
  • I want him to design the next Fry's Electronics "theme store" that they put up around Silicon Valley. It should look just like that hypercube2 case. Yow!

  • Neat however (Score:3, Interesting)

    by cr0y ( 670718 ) on Sunday December 26, 2004 @06:19PM (#11187145) Homepage
    I really think people going overboard with these types of things is cool however, i would really like to see some effort being put into very clean looking cases. Ones that really make people drool over the beauty that a computer can be. I know off the shelf computers that look like things other than computers exist, I just sometimes wonder why they aren't featured that often, especially when things like this are so opinionated it is hard to say what is worth noting and what is not.
    • "Very clean looking cases" tend to be boring. Let's compare to other instances of aesthetically pleasing objects:

      First, cars. Cars have quite a few constraints on their external shape. Designs we appreciate integrate well with these constraints - for example, smooth lines between and around features that absolutely have to be there, like wheels and windshield glass. Alternatively, some good designs may defy convention, by having deliberately boxy or unstreamlined shapes.

      Similarly, in building architec
  • ...That all your calculus and factor-giant-numbers-in-their-head friends have one too so that when they throw you into the Hypercube for copyright infringement you can find your way out.
  • All you have to do to make your case mod twice as cool, apparently, is make it twice the size!
  • That's easily the coolest case I've ever seen.

    It's easily the worst movie I have ever seen.

    I watched it in a marathon with Sphere, and Sphere was the good one!
  • This is absolutely awesome. The movie (hypercube), I agree, was terrible, but this case is amazing. I want one.

  • Disappointed! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ralphclark ( 11346 ) on Sunday December 26, 2004 @07:05PM (#11187578) Journal
    I went to the site expecting to see a computer case built in the shape of a tesseract. Damn!
  • ....it still just looks like a regular old cube to me..
  • My condolences about the Maxtor drive you decided to install.

  • Slashdotted again (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Mr. Byaninch ( 837872 ) on Sunday December 26, 2004 @07:53PM (#11187965)
    Hey! Am I the first person to wonder why Slashdot doesn't cache the stuff they link to, so that when it gets killed we can still see it? Gee, it would take someone 2 or 3 minutes to do it on a big site, 15 seconds on a single page thing. I mean, /. regularly busts people's bandwith allocation, all the while making money off the ads on the page that everyone links from. Doesn't anyone there (at /.) think it would be nice to at least spring for a $100 hard drive and cache the pages for a few days? Lots of times some reader does it knowing the site will get put offline, but why should it be up to good hearted readers? Why doesn't OSTG do it? Would that kill them? Should we take up a collection? Or am I all wet?
    • You must be new here. Oh, yep, you are.
      • So... does that make me wrong??? WTF? Why don't they help out the people who are making them money? If it was Billy Gates, people would be screaming. Why is it OK for /. to cost people money, when they push people over their limit, and then not even bother to help out? If you had a cool website that was generating $100 a month from the ad or two you had, and then someone posted a link to you here and you either had to go offline or pay for a big bandwidth increase... is it OK that Slashdot didn't even
        • > True, you're not going to get any more ad revenue, but couldn't they at least provide a way for the readers to see your stuff?
          > Your stuff is what they're making money off.

          If the banners never get shown, they aren't making more money. So you steal their content without getting them paid for the content they took the time to post (or in most cases, created). Not to mention the copyright liability of copying an article from another site.

          That's one of those things that sounds great at first, but wh
    • Hey! Am I the first person to wonder why Slashdot doesn't cache the stuff they link to...

      No. You must be new here.

      p
    • "Hey! Am I the first person to wonder why Slashdot doesn't cache the stuff they link to"

      You must be. I mean, if anyone else had ever thought about it in the history of the site, I bet it would be in the FAQ [slashdot.org] or something.

    • The idea is good, but it's not as simple an issue as it might seem at first glance. As pointed out in a sibling post it's in the FAQ: Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect! [slashdot.org]

      Basically the core issue is copyright. Mirroring stuff is a form of publishing, and all forms of copyright I know of requires permission from the copyright holder in order to publish their material. Do the math.
    • HelloOOo?! McFly?

      This is easily taken care of. When a story is submitted, include an option that reads:

      Original content can be mirrored for 24 hours upon story approval? Yes [ ] No [ ]

      There are some mechanics involved with this. Such as notification of story approval to original content provider. click rate data capturing and forwarding.

      As long as the option exists for automatic approved mirroring, then there is nobody to blame but the story submitter. Besides, it would finally give some accountabi
    • OK, somebody boosted the score on this, and it doesn't deserve it. I was stooopid not to look for a FAQ. I don't agree with it now that I've seen it -- I mean, who that got mentioned here would start a legal issue over mirroring/caching their site to keep them visible? It's an honor, not a threat. The banner ad issue is bogus too. When the site gets shut down, they're not making any money. If mirroring it can't be done with the ad link-backs intact, then they're still no worse off, right? The 'Slashdot

  • who cares? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by nblender ( 741424 )
    Look, I have a welder, a plasma cutter, and various other bits of metal torture... The absolutely last thing I would ever consider wasting my time on is a stupid box to store my computer. I mean really. What's next, neon under the honda? Maybe some fake disc rotors to hide the little girly drum brakes?

    It's all about function and substance, not form.

    Chrome don't get ya home.

    • Who cares? I care, you pompous bitch.

      You know, some of us aren't too involved to look at art from time to time. Regardless of the function (in this case (NPI), a computer), it is a work of art. If the guy had used a dremel to cut out a bunch of strip of metal & riveted them together around their head, it may look stupid (and I would have no desire to see it, probably), but it might be art to someone else. If you wasted your time going to the site... you were already wasting your time on /. so quit
  • Anyone else think the pictures in the 'final product' linked page are just 3d renders? The lighting and geometry is great, but too perfect to have been taken in a real room under real lighting conditions. Nice 3d model though.
    • I'm a photographer. It looks like very simple lighting (1 overhead) done in a seamless box. It's actually not very good and doesn't really flatter the box all that much...

  • HyperZZzzzz... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by MerryGoByeBye ( 447358 )
    Am I the only one who thinks that case isn't, um, how to put this, worthy of its own /. article? For Crissakes, it's not even a proper hypercube! I know it's the holidays and everyone's all fat 'n' content, but can't you come up with better filler than this?

    OK, so you can't make a friggin' hypercube... But then don't call it that! Sheesh! And if you *must* use the name, can't you make it more interesting than just some white lights shining through plexiglass? How about some mirrors or something inside to a
    • I'm fairly certain the idea was not to make a proper Hypercube, but to make something reminiscent of the movie Hypercube :)
      • Ah.

        Well, chalk that up to my (apparently beneficial, if the posts here are to be taken seriously) ignorance of the movie, then!

        I do, however, maintain that this sort of thing doesn't really qualify for its own article. (Must get that last word in, dammit.)
  • OK, if you have a hypercube how do you find the area of it's surface? Is the area of a hypersurface a hyperarea expressed in three dimensions instead of two?

    On the subject of the case it's beautiful. He should see if Lian Li or Coolermaster would be willing to license his design and produce these for the rest of us. I'd love to have one of these, it's cool looking and lots of fun.

    Of course if it were truly four dimensional that would be even better, perhaps if he could get some mono-isotopic unobtainium

    • > if you have a hypercube how do you find the area of it's surface

      That's like saying "if you have a cube what's the length of its edges". Probably a more relevant question is "what's the surface volume of a hypercube".
    • I imagine that the fabrication costs would be too prohibitive to market this case on a large scale.
      You'd only be able to market something like this to VERY high-end customers -- and those people probably could pay somebody to use a computer for them.
      Attempts to fab a case with anything less than this guys attention-to-detail would make the effort worthless.

    • On the topic of finding the area of its surface, I would guess that it comes down to what you mean by "surface." Personally, I'd argue that surface is always two-dimensional. Perimeter would be the 1D equivalent, and volume the 3D equivalent. After that we get to make things up.

      I think it comes out to 36L^2, where L is the length of any given edge of the hypercube. That's assuming I counted the number of sides correctly, of course. So I guess a hypercube has six times the area of a regular cube (as well a

    • The surface area is not a good measurement of a 4D object. The equivalent would be the volume of its three dimensional "surface". The 4D equivalent of a 3D volume (i.e. the total 4-space inclosed) would be a hypervolume measured in meters^4.
    • Area refers to the two-dimensional area of a figure by default. So, to measure the surface area of a hyper-dimensional figure, you measure the area of each of its two-dimensional faces.

      You may also refer to three-dimensional area (or volume! -- same thing) of a hyper-dimensional figure.
  • .. That case looks absolutely fantastic. First case mod I've ever seen that really Doesn't Suck.

    Mad amount of effort put into it but damn that shit's gorgeous. I want one :{ but then again it's not the same if you haven't made it yourself.

    Maybe this guy could help me build my IIDX ASC :D (I'll be surprised if anyone here has heard of IIDX.)

  • The only promblem with it. (Score:4, Funny)

    by gnovos ( 447128 ) <gnovos.chipped@net> on Sunday December 26, 2004 @11:34PM (#11189031) Homepage Journal
    If I remember the movie correctly, I think the blue screen of death has an entirely new meaning when using this case... I suspect upgrading to the newest specs may literally cost an arm and a leg. Possibly an eye as well.
  • I knew it had nothing to do with aliens [bit-tech.net] ; it shows clearly a power outlet, something "they" are probably very much more advanced in... (tinfoil hat -is- on so I ain't being brainprogrammed he*$#)

    I have The Cube and Hypercube(2) on DVD and am glad I bought them... Although the first, older one looks more "realistically" in effects it's still a fascinating sci-fi/mystery/thriller with certain horror effects ; the second one is more sf and advanced .. where the ending is a big difference with the first one (n

  • Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Vo0k ( 760020 ) on Monday December 27, 2004 @03:50AM (#11189963) Journal
    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
    With nodes changing location within the cluster according to some obscure formula... and killing unsuspecting operators :)
  • And does it allow for four simultaneous computers to exist within one? It must if it claims to be cubic [timecube.com].
  • Why would you base a case design on such a crappy movie [highprogrammer.com]?

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