Japanese village creates field-sized 3D paintings made of coloured rice shoots

[hudibras]

Here are some photos from the World War One era which use a similar concept. But instead of rice plants, these use tens of thousands of people to create the pictures.

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/living-photographs-photograp...

[ue_]

I have seen some albeit more simplistic rice art when I went to Japan. I had to climb a little tower to see them, it was such a cool idea at the time; the one I saw showed that popular Japanese woodblock print with the waves on it, which I can't seem to find.

Unfortunately I lost pictures of it in a hard drive crash, but it's really nice to see IRL and I'd recommend it if you're visiting nearby one. Mine was somewhere in Iwate prefecture.

[cooper12]

It's called The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa

[yarri]

Civic engagement in Japanese agriculture was a challenge for rural communities when I was living in Japan, this village's activity seems similar to 4H clubs in the US.

[Asooka]

I don't see how these are three-dimensional. Is it because they depict three-dimensional objects? But then aren't most (all) paintings 3D?

[MaysonL]

For some pictures: http://www.inakadate-tanboart.net/

[pacaro]

Hmmm, I wonder if you could do something similar with hydrangeas and an irrigation system that controls the ph of the soil on a per plant basis

[sand500]

Wouldn't have to be per plant if you can isolate the pH of two regions at the boundary.

[aaron695]

2D

[kevin_thibedeau]

The perspective correct ion makes them appear to float in space.

[cja]

I'm in the UK and I am not allowed to view this page:

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I don't watch live TV so I don't pay the licence fee. Shouldn't I therefore be allowed to see this page?

[simonbarker87]

Regardless of having a license fee or not (I do as while I don't watch live TV I do have a TV in the house and I like the BBC) I think license payers should be able to view this kind of content. Without the fee the BBC wouldn't exist (in its current form at least) to make projects the projects that aren't funded by the fees. Anyone have a mirror, please?

[IanCal]

There are very strict rules around the BBC and what it can do within the UK (showing adverts is the most obvious, but also fair trading rules around promoting for-profit entities). Lots of things will be blocked simply to avoid this.

[tomhoward]

You can read this (and any other BBC Worldwide article) by entering the url at http://archive.is.

Here's the link for this article: http://archive.is/lJkKW

[superflyguy]

Yeah, not sure what the revenue stream is. Why do they care? Anyway,tor is always two clicks away and is fine here, so whatever!

[jamiethompson]

Just use tor