How to build a portrait with dice

[sgdesign]

I'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...

[Avshalom]

step 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

[earbitscom]

Amazing.

[sambeau]

That's cool. I wonder if it might have been improved by applying a Floyd–Steinberg dithering (or some such) first?

[brador]

For anyone wondering, that's about $200 of dice retail and around $100 wholesale.

[Sparragus]

Where would you buy this wholesale?

[Liu]

There are similar portraits done with Rubik's Cubes http://freshome.com/2011/11/08/dream-big-rubik%E2%80%99s-cub...

[zeteo]

This 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.

[T_S_]

Wonder 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]

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.

[umarmung]

"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!

[aeurielesn]

I made a gist of it right away! I don't want to lose it, even though I already read the idea behind it.