How to build a portrait with dice (opens in new tab)

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

"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!

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