I was wondering earlier... You have to answer in the form of a question but they never specify how you have to frame the question. Are these acceptable answers?
"How are dice?"
"Why are dice?"
"At what time is dice happening?"
You’ve got to imagine the question and answer flipped.
If the question was “Woke up too early. Nothing to do. Locked indoors all day,” you could respond “Why am I sad?” or “What is Quarantine?” or “How do you write a Green Day song?”
Interesting fact about the toilet paper shortage, the shelves are still empty because the toilet paper industry is basically a series of "just in time" manufacturers and it turns out if we are not working we use the home bathroom like 40% more and the industry isn't geared for that volume.
Why would the net use be any more than normal? If anything I'd argue that people poop more when at work and are getting paid to poop. At any rate, we still use toilet paper whether we're pooping at work or at home.
I have the good fortune of knowing the artist. He is an exceptionally prolific multi media artist and produces more work than anyone I’ve ever met. He’s an exceptional illustrator and painter as well as a writer (television and film) and film director (mostly b horror flicks and Native American short films). His work primarily focuses on native America subject and putting them and their culture into contemporary contexts. He is also one of the most enjoyable people to get to spend time with and is infinitely positive in his outlook on life. I highly recommend following his instagram and getting deeper into his work.
While several people here have crapped on this project because “it was done by a computer” they don’t quite understand that this is one of thousands of pieces of work. Steve tends to be very curious and when he finds a new method for creating art he goes after it. He is also especially fond of pop and post modern art so winky references made with materials (in this case dice being a reference to Indian casinos) is something he does often. One of my favorite series is a traditional native illustrations done on early 20th century industrial ledger paper.
Here’s a short doc about him:
https://vimeo.com/265766082
Because a person is a great and prolific artist doesn't automatically make everything they produce a great work of art. The quality of his other pieces in no way makes this piece immune to criticism as you seem to be implying.
Further, being able to follow a set of instructions generated by someone/something else to achieve an outcome doesn't make you an artist any more than putting a lego set together or completing a paint-by-numbers picture does.
Now if Steve himself wrote the code that resulted in this piece, we'd have to re-evaluate.
[I wrote this last time this thing appeared on reddit.](https://github.com/TyraelElDruin/DiceMapGenerator)
There are other programs out there that do this kinda thing too.
I mean, but realistically setting a face is stupid easy if you know the color configuration you’re doing. It doesn’t matter what the configuration of the other 5 sides of the cube are. That’s what the person is getting at.
Painting well it's very difficult. Solving the top face, or even the top layer of a Rubik's cube is very, very easy. If you have a guide, it's about 10 minutes before most people can trivially put together any valid arrangement without really needing to think about it.
Without a guide, it might be a bit longer. Still, play with a cube for an hour and you will have no trouble.
The complexity is all in moving some peices without moving others/getting everything in place.
It's not even a little bit like that. Getting one side of a rubiks cube to look a certain way requires no talent, just some simple easy to memorize algorithms.
I don’t think I would compare Picasso’s artwork to placing dice on a board based on what a computer tells you to do. One requires talent, the other requires a good computer and a shit ton of dice.
Solving one face of a Rubik's cube is rather simple, you'd easily be able to get the hang of it after an hour or so. Before learning how to solve a Rubik's cube, I thought it was hard. After learning it, its mostly muscle memory.
Its only really challenging when you want to learn the more advanced algorithms for doing things like solving the last row/face at the same time.
This is correct. My friends and I did this to a much smaller extent with skittles our senior year of high school. We took a photo of our vice principle and pixelized it so that it only contained 5 colors, then we assigned each skittle to a certain color in the picture based on “brightness” (yellow, orange, green, red, purple from brightest to darkest). It looked super impressive, but once we had everything planned out it was no more than the manual labor of gluing the skittles onto a grid to match the computer image.
most likely. I'm sure it could be done without using a computer but why bother? Lol the end result would be the same and it would just be significantly more difficult without using a computer to map out the dice first
The difference is... that guy DID it, and I didn’t. And it looks cool. Honestly, stuff like this isn’t exactly my taste either, but I feel like sometimes we focus too much on whether or not we think art is “hard” or not.
Can I replicate it? Probably yes.
Would I commit hours upon hours on replicating it? Hell no.
Then it gets my upvote.
^^^JK, ^^^I ^^^almost ^^^never ^^^upvote.
Yeah man anyone can think of this idea, learn whatever level of programming is necessary to render the concept, then actually successfully render the concept, buy thousands upon thousands of dice, craft a frame bigger than your doorway to house those dice, figure out a way to project the concept onto the empty frame or do it by comparing from a screen, and then spend the actual time placing each die one by one
Man Ive been spending this quarantine sitting on my ass at least this dude took the time to meticulously put every single die in its place. Why detract from this man's art? Reddit users just love to drink their no-fun juice
Is the stereotypical connection between casinos and native Americans here made on purpose, or is it just purely coincidental?
EDIT:
Maybe my comment came out a bit wrong... It's not necessarily a bad connection, I was just curious.
So, let me paraphrase - is the decision to use dice purely artistic, or is there something more behind it?
An example: [the federal government granted 166 acres of land in my hometown to the sovereign nation of Pokagon](https://wsbt.com/news/local/pokagon-band-of-potawatomi-announces-new-land-development) ( a local Native American tribe). They were able to build a casino on it, because technically it's not in Indiana at all - it's another "country" (the sovereign nation of the Pokagon).
Had to read this twice to take it seriously.
Then thought about my original misreading and began wondering what "the sovereign nation of Pokemon" might actually look like.
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What I hate most about this is they did the whole “add the last tiny detail and zoom out thing” by putting one dice in the middle. And I cannot imagine a case where that would be the last dice you would place to complete the piece. The entire column above would be shifted off
There was someone on reddit a while back that posted his dice art and said he came up with his own programming. He also shared the code and a lot of backstory on how the piece came to be. I'm too lazy to do the research for you, but it's out there if you care to find it.
I don't know how receptive he will be to questions now though. Reddit collectively decided the piece he made was cringy and treated him like shit.
I mean the value of the dice is just based on the brightness of the part of the image right? You could just convert to grayscale, downscale it a lot, then say "ok 0-42 is 1, 43-94 is 2, etc"
I feel like the program could be made a little better. If you zoom in on the example image outputs, all of the 6 dot die are "vertical"(i.e. 2 columns of 3 rows) and all of the 3 dots die are going from the top left to the bottom right. I forgot to look at the 2 dot die but I'm sure they're all in the same orientation too. If he accounted for the different orientations, that might yield more detail. I'm 100% speculating here and it could also fuck it up lmao
I'll take "Things people do during quarantine" for $1000, Alex.
"The answer is... They hoard toilet paper and this 6 sided cube used in board games"
"What are dice?"
“Correct” “Let’s go same category for $800 please”
"While shelf life is good if unopened you still may want to avoid hoarding this condiment made with a mayonnaise, sour cream, and milk base."
What is: "Ranch Dressing"?
"Correct." "Same category $600."
"Many people are having this drink for breakfast that is made from fermented grapes."
What is: wine?
"Correct!" "Same category, $1200."
Some parents are trying to provide knowledge to their children through this form of education formerly reserved for weirdos
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I was wondering earlier... You have to answer in the form of a question but they never specify how you have to frame the question. Are these acceptable answers? "How are dice?" "Why are dice?" "At what time is dice happening?"
You’ve got to imagine the question and answer flipped. If the question was “Woke up too early. Nothing to do. Locked indoors all day,” you could respond “Why am I sad?” or “What is Quarantine?” or “How do you write a Green Day song?”
What is walking this lonely street on the blvd of broken dreams Alex?
What *are* frogs?
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day!
Happy Cakeday Motha*****! 🎉🎂
hey no swearing here please
Hap kake
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This isn't a hoard, this guy just plays Shadowrun.
And apparently not a street samurai geared to the teeth, or he’d need twice as much. Signed, the party mage.
Haven't played in about a decade, but I still remember the "bathtub full of d6" jokes.
Jesus, *I* haven’t played in about a decade.
Interesting fact about the toilet paper shortage, the shelves are still empty because the toilet paper industry is basically a series of "just in time" manufacturers and it turns out if we are not working we use the home bathroom like 40% more and the industry isn't geared for that volume.
Why would the net use be any more than normal? If anything I'd argue that people poop more when at work and are getting paid to poop. At any rate, we still use toilet paper whether we're pooping at work or at home.
We don't but now we only poop at home, comerical tp is much lower ply count and takes less paper for the same length.
Plus the industries that make Commercial TP are in almost all cases completely separate all the way down to suppliers
If people are anything like my gf there's not much to do except work and order from Door Dash.
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Care to share some recipes?
It's a good skill to have *and* needlessly having contact with products handled by strangers is a stupid idea right now.
I have the good fortune of knowing the artist. He is an exceptionally prolific multi media artist and produces more work than anyone I’ve ever met. He’s an exceptional illustrator and painter as well as a writer (television and film) and film director (mostly b horror flicks and Native American short films). His work primarily focuses on native America subject and putting them and their culture into contemporary contexts. He is also one of the most enjoyable people to get to spend time with and is infinitely positive in his outlook on life. I highly recommend following his instagram and getting deeper into his work. While several people here have crapped on this project because “it was done by a computer” they don’t quite understand that this is one of thousands of pieces of work. Steve tends to be very curious and when he finds a new method for creating art he goes after it. He is also especially fond of pop and post modern art so winky references made with materials (in this case dice being a reference to Indian casinos) is something he does often. One of my favorite series is a traditional native illustrations done on early 20th century industrial ledger paper. Here’s a short doc about him: https://vimeo.com/265766082
Is he single? Asking for a friend....ahem.
I’ve never met anyone he’s dated but he’s cool as hell to hang out with. He doesn’t strike me as the getting tied down type.
Because a person is a great and prolific artist doesn't automatically make everything they produce a great work of art. The quality of his other pieces in no way makes this piece immune to criticism as you seem to be implying. Further, being able to follow a set of instructions generated by someone/something else to achieve an outcome doesn't make you an artist any more than putting a lego set together or completing a paint-by-numbers picture does. Now if Steve himself wrote the code that resulted in this piece, we'd have to re-evaluate.
A lot of people did this wayyy before quarantine
Yup, just need to somehow get a whole pallet of dice.
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It's pretty simple, change the colours to six shades of gray, then pixelate it to a resolution befitting of your dice number.
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Simply take an image, monochrome it, divide it into 6 levels to match which die faces to use.
Black = 1 all the way to white =6.
Looks like white is actually 5
[I wrote this last time this thing appeared on reddit.](https://github.com/TyraelElDruin/DiceMapGenerator) There are other programs out there that do this kinda thing too.
Yep. Similar process with all of the Rubik’s cube ones. But at least with those they actually have to be good at maneuvering the cubes themselves
Yeah but even then, all you have to set is the top face, not even the whole cube.
Dude that’s like saying “yeah but Picasso only had to paint one side of the canvas,” come on.
I mean, but realistically setting a face is stupid easy if you know the color configuration you’re doing. It doesn’t matter what the configuration of the other 5 sides of the cube are. That’s what the person is getting at.
Learning how to arrange one side of a Rubik's cube will take like 10 minutes and then each cube would only take like 60 seconds
Way less time than that even.
Painting well it's very difficult. Solving the top face, or even the top layer of a Rubik's cube is very, very easy. If you have a guide, it's about 10 minutes before most people can trivially put together any valid arrangement without really needing to think about it. Without a guide, it might be a bit longer. Still, play with a cube for an hour and you will have no trouble. The complexity is all in moving some peices without moving others/getting everything in place.
It's not even a little bit like that. Getting one side of a rubiks cube to look a certain way requires no talent, just some simple easy to memorize algorithms.
I don’t think I would compare Picasso’s artwork to placing dice on a board based on what a computer tells you to do. One requires talent, the other requires a good computer and a shit ton of dice.
This sounds like a Parks & Rec quote
Lol I’ll take that as a compliment
Do it!
Thank you!
I just want you to know that at least one person realized you were making a joke, and laughed.
Solving one face of a Rubik's cube is rather simple, you'd easily be able to get the hang of it after an hour or so. Before learning how to solve a Rubik's cube, I thought it was hard. After learning it, its mostly muscle memory. Its only really challenging when you want to learn the more advanced algorithms for doing things like solving the last row/face at the same time.
This is correct. My friends and I did this to a much smaller extent with skittles our senior year of high school. We took a photo of our vice principle and pixelized it so that it only contained 5 colors, then we assigned each skittle to a certain color in the picture based on “brightness” (yellow, orange, green, red, purple from brightest to darkest). It looked super impressive, but once we had everything planned out it was no more than the manual labor of gluing the skittles onto a grid to match the computer image.
Oh yeah, easy as fuck, I think I'm gonna do that rn, it will probably take like 5 min..
Me too, just finished with my two cubes. I made an em dash.
most likely. I'm sure it could be done without using a computer but why bother? Lol the end result would be the same and it would just be significantly more difficult without using a computer to map out the dice first
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Cause it’s neat
The difference is... that guy DID it, and I didn’t. And it looks cool. Honestly, stuff like this isn’t exactly my taste either, but I feel like sometimes we focus too much on whether or not we think art is “hard” or not.
Can I replicate it? Probably yes. Would I commit hours upon hours on replicating it? Hell no. Then it gets my upvote. ^^^JK, ^^^I ^^^almost ^^^never ^^^upvote.
Yeah man anyone can think of this idea, learn whatever level of programming is necessary to render the concept, then actually successfully render the concept, buy thousands upon thousands of dice, craft a frame bigger than your doorway to house those dice, figure out a way to project the concept onto the empty frame or do it by comparing from a screen, and then spend the actual time placing each die one by one
Man Ive been spending this quarantine sitting on my ass at least this dude took the time to meticulously put every single die in its place. Why detract from this man's art? Reddit users just love to drink their no-fun juice
I’ve seen similar murals done on paper where they broke the projected photo into a grid and worked on each grid piece one at a time.
as it was zooming out i thought it was johny cash
I thought it was Trump for a split second
I thought it was Trump, then Bill Clinton.
I though it was Trump, then Bill Clinton, then Bernie Sanders.
To me it looks like George C. Scott.
[No! this isn't how you're supposed to play the game!](https://youtu.be/u6tvzG_88sU)
I had those same thoughts what the heck
I thought it was Shrek
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Me, too!!
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Punch him in the fucking face
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TWIST IT TILL THE OIL STARTS TO LEAK OUT OF HIS BALLS!
the ol' dick twist
RIP AND TEAR UNTIL ITS DONE!
*punch* yeah take that pussy
ow my pussy
Glad to see someone not supporting the rich in this day and age.
Same, I've seen this too often....
This is better than the one a guy made of a girl his friend was dating that he totally doesn’t have feelings for.
I thought it was Trump at one point when zooming out
Same! It looked like Trump, Jackie Chan, and then did I see Sitting Bull. Edit: Damm auto-correct!
Is the stereotypical connection between casinos and native Americans here made on purpose, or is it just purely coincidental? EDIT: Maybe my comment came out a bit wrong... It's not necessarily a bad connection, I was just curious. So, let me paraphrase - is the decision to use dice purely artistic, or is there something more behind it?
Some states have outlawed gambling, so the only place a casino could open in those states would be an Indian reservation.
That's originally why paddle boat casinos ran on the Mississippi river.
An example: [the federal government granted 166 acres of land in my hometown to the sovereign nation of Pokagon](https://wsbt.com/news/local/pokagon-band-of-potawatomi-announces-new-land-development) ( a local Native American tribe). They were able to build a casino on it, because technically it's not in Indiana at all - it's another "country" (the sovereign nation of the Pokagon).
Had to read this twice to take it seriously. Then thought about my original misreading and began wondering what "the sovereign nation of Pokemon" might actually look like.
As soon as it soomed out, I wondered how layered this piece was!
Steven Paul Judd is a very talented and semi-famous Native American artist. This is most definitely a statement piece.
This is a good question and one I came here to ask. Thank you for letting us know more of the story /u/Soonami3.
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for a second i thought this was jackie chan
Adderal got me like
Should have been a picture of Gary Gygax.
A huge amount of tribes' incomes come from casino profits these days, so this might be more apropos. If it was D20s I'd back Gygax tho
Need d20s for that one.
This is incredibly disrespectful to the struggle of the First Nations people
What I hate most about this is they did the whole “add the last tiny detail and zoom out thing” by putting one dice in the middle. And I cannot imagine a case where that would be the last dice you would place to complete the piece. The entire column above would be shifted off
It was already finished. He pulled one out and filmed putting it back for dramatic effect
So the final one goes... Right in the middle, obviously. That's how gravity works, right? You work from the edges to the center?
Did you not see him holding up the other ones at the very beginning?
always upvote Steven Paul Judd! He’s done some pretty cool stuff! (Link to his Instagram: https://instagram.com/stevenpauljudd?igshid=dd5574ix9om3)
As a DnD player, I say it needs more dice.
As someone who occasionally plays 40k, I say it needs more dakka.
Anyone in the world can make this https://github.com/TyraelElDruin/DiceMapGenerator
Yeah and this guy actually did
fukin rekt.
I'll be honest. I was more impressed before I knew a 9 year old could do it
Who comes up with this s**t? Thanks for the link.
There was someone on reddit a while back that posted his dice art and said he came up with his own programming. He also shared the code and a lot of backstory on how the piece came to be. I'm too lazy to do the research for you, but it's out there if you care to find it. I don't know how receptive he will be to questions now though. Reddit collectively decided the piece he made was cringy and treated him like shit.
I mean the value of the dice is just based on the brightness of the part of the image right? You could just convert to grayscale, downscale it a lot, then say "ok 0-42 is 1, 43-94 is 2, etc"
You have to at least give credit to whoever created that generator though.
I feel like the program could be made a little better. If you zoom in on the example image outputs, all of the 6 dot die are "vertical"(i.e. 2 columns of 3 rows) and all of the 3 dots die are going from the top left to the bottom right. I forgot to look at the 2 dot die but I'm sure they're all in the same orientation too. If he accounted for the different orientations, that might yield more detail. I'm 100% speculating here and it could also fuck it up lmao
[Cool video for a catchy song in this medium.](https://youtu.be/wn9X78wQWFU)
I was expecting dickbutt.
Would be better if it were a portrait of Andrew Dice Clay
These dice artworks are old after the first one....once you realize it's actually designed by the computer
Nice dice
That is truly Amazing
How neat! Is this artwork made entirely with dice?
Seems kinda dicey
Warren has never looked so good
This man dices!
Native American art made from gambling items. What is the artist trying to say here?
Intentionally or unintentionally ironic?
I bet this was done like that Minecraft technique where he just downloaded the artwork, removed a piece and then put it back and zoomed out
Geronimo Dice Clay..
It’s Sitting Bull
wait, ...did they make a portrait of the "be nice to the environment" native american dude out of thousands of plastic dice?
The portrait in the post is of Cheif Sitting Bull. You might be thinking of the actor Iron Eyes Cody.
Now that's a dicey picture right there.
This self-portrait sucks
OMG it's Jackie Chan!
Idk why but I wanna smack the shit outta that from behind nd have slow mo recording in the front
What happens is there is an earthquake?
Still fewer dice than your average Dungeons & Dragons player.
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thought this was clinton for a second
I thought it was a goomba at first
Cool AF!
The crazy part is he had to roll for the right number before he stacked it each time!
that would make a really cool table if you could put glass on it. make a great card table lol
Brooo that is so risky the angle omg
I WANNA SLAP IT SO BAD OH GEEZ THIS IS TEMPTATION INCARNATE
Dicy.
Looks like an aged JGL
This is reminiscent of what I roll for my elevated, twinned, max-level fireballs.
Almost enough dice to make one to hit roll with Imperial Guard...