This great video by Fujiya & Miyagi inspired me:
Why not write a Processing sketch that will take an image and render it in dice? It might be fairly easy:
Divide the image into square sections.
Calculate the average brightness of that square – like I did in my engraving sketch. 1
That average brightness should fall in one of six or 12 levels of brightness.
Choose a die face that matches that brightness level.
Paste that image into the image.
Done!
What could you do with that? You could produce a print. You could use it as a guide for actually laying out the dice and putting them in a frame – or using them to print letterpress style.
When you get into the physical dice, laying them out gets tedious. The next big step would be to have an arduino system 2 that picks up dice and places them for you.
You could offer physical pieces for sale.
- Click on the picture. The farther right you click, the lower the brightness cutoff. The higher you click, the finer the line detail. (back)
- Arduino controller code is based on Processing (back)
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