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How to build a portrait with dice
- sambeau 15y agoThat's cool. I wonder if it might have been improved by applying a Floyd–Steinberg dithering (or some such) first?
- Avshalom 15y agostep 2. design 3000 tiny robotic hands to rotate the die in real time to make a dice mirror, finally outdoing Rozin's wooden mirrors. http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html
- earbitscom 15y agoAmazing.
- aeurielesn 15y agoI made a gist of it right away! I don't want to lose it, even though I already read the idea behind it.
- T_S_ 15y agoWonder what the reverse side looks like. Come to think of it it would be cool to slice the dice, to save weight and numbers.
- thebooktocome 15y agoThe opposite sides of a die add up to seven. So the opposite side of the picture just looks like the negative of the image.
- hypeibole 15y agoI am not following your train of thought. Care to elaborate a little?
- pavel_lishin 15y agoIf you're looking at a die, and see a 1, the opposite side will be a 6. If you're looking at a 2, the opposite side is a 5, and so on with 3 and 4. So the back side of that portrait would have sixes in place of ones, and so on - generating a negative, with black taking the place of white, and white taking the place of black.
- zeteo 15y agoThis would be such a great Mindstorms project. If the dice came packaged all in the same orientation, you wouldn't even need the camera sensor.
- brador 15y agoFor anyone wondering, that's about $200 of dice retail and around $100 wholesale.
- Sparragus 15y agoWhere would you buy this wholesale?
- sgdesign 15y agoI'm a designer, and this got me wondering if it was possible to achieve the same effect using Photshop. Turns out it's actually possible, so I wrote a quick tutorial: http://www.attackofdesign.com/how-to-build-a-portrait-with-dice-using-photoshop/ http://www.attackofdesign.com/how-to-build-a-portrait-with-d...
- Liu 15y agoThere are similar portraits done with Rubik's Cubes http://freshome.com/2011/11/08/dream-big-rubik%E2%80%99s-cubes-portrait-of-martin-luther-king-jr/ http://freshome.com/2011/11/08/dream-big-rubik%E2%80%99s-cub...
- umarmung 15y ago"It weighs close to 100 pounds." - for that weight, I'll take the girl instead. But seriously, 2560 dice => 17gram 16mm-size dice. That's very heavy dice for their size. I would have expected less than a quarter that!