How to build a portrait with dice
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How to build a portrait with dice
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Re: How to build a portrait with dice
#2step 2.
design 3000 tiny robotic hands to rotate the die in real time to make a dice mirror, finally outdoing Rozin's wooden mirrors.
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#3That's cool. I wonder if it might have been improved by applying a Floyd–Steinberg dithering (or some such) first?
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#4I made a gist of it right away! I don't want to lose it, even though I already read the idea behind it.
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#5Wonder what the reverse side looks like. Come to think of it it would be cool to slice the dice, to save weight and numbers.
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#6Wonder what the reverse side looks like. Come to think of it it would be cool to slice the dice, to save weight and numbers.
The opposite sides of a die add up to seven. So the opposite side of the picture just looks like the negative of the image.
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#7This 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.
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#8For anyone wondering, that's about $200 of dice retail and around $100 wholesale.
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#9I'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-d...
Re: How to build a portrait with dice
#10Wonder what the reverse side looks like. Come to think of it it would be cool to slice the dice, to save weight and numbers.
The opposite sides of a die add up to seven. So the opposite side of the picture just looks like the negative of the image.
I am not following your train of thought.
Care to elaborate a little?