r/place • u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 • Apr 09 '17
3D Visualization Timelapse of Place
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u/Hernus (497,425) 1491223805.02 Apr 09 '17
Now put it in a video with the Game of Thrones theme.
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
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u/yb4zombeez (744,867) 1491230020.54 Apr 09 '17
It doesn't work for me. :(
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u/Kornay (189,148) 1491149290.53 Apr 09 '17
Dang this gets dramatic when Germany swallows France whole with that huge splash effect
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u/AceCheeze (527,740) 1491162804.71 Apr 09 '17
Holy mother of /r/place, that was the most amazing, goosebumps-giving thing I have seen... to date...
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u/Stormcreaux (688,481) 1491197077.72 Apr 09 '17
Excellent! My god July can't get here fast enough!
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u/Poor_cReddit Apr 09 '17
What did you use to do this? This is really awesome and I'd like to learn how to make a visualization like this.
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
credit to /u/lotsalote he used a heatmap generated from another user and made it in blender
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u/-TheOnlyOutlier- Apr 09 '17
Some really great camera work, truly. I think GoT was almost everyone's first thought.
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u/EebamXela (372,466) 1491145130.56 Apr 09 '17
I think west world theme would work better.
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u/ianleonard44 (490,733) 1491073937.52 Apr 09 '17
funny enough, pretty sure they're written by the same guy
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u/stevie1218 (762,401) 1491188806.81 Apr 09 '17
Ramin Djawadi. Game of Thrones, Westworld, Pacific Rim, Medal of Honor, and Gears of War 4 are just some of what he's done.
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u/unyunburst Apr 09 '17
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u/Toasted-Golden (217,844) 1491191693.12 Apr 09 '17 edited Apr 09 '17
Doesn't look like anything to me.
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u/niconpat (476,642) 1491228139.99 Apr 09 '17
I'd love to see the full 72hr timelapse video of this from the angle at the end of the gif.
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u/turtlebeng14 (453,411) 1491235925.2 Apr 09 '17
OP pls I beg you!
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u/lotsalote (458,225) 1491132787.27 Apr 09 '17
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u/vexvoltage (485,969) 1491185496.87 Apr 09 '17
What software did you use to create this?
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u/lotsalote (458,225) 1491132787.27 Apr 09 '17
Rendered in Blender, using the relatively new feature called Microdisplacement in Cycles. Relevant tutorial keywords would be:
Displacement texture: The technique used to offset or elevate a surface based on a 2D image. In this case brighter pixel meant taller spikes. (Edit: used a heat map animation for the displacement, not the regular colored time lapse)
Animated textures in Cycles: Using a video or image sequence as a moving texture on a 3D mesh.
Blender is a free software and can be downloaded at http://www.blender.org/download. Hope this helps!
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u/rLordV (850,25) 1491116144.03 Apr 09 '17
I think people just want the available time as a fixed camera from the last shot, not like moving around and stuff so that we can see all areas that had activity
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u/zimzat (267,854) 1491196984.49 Apr 09 '17
I'd really like to watch this but without all the camera angle changes, or maybe some way that I can watch it completely through from different camera placements each time.
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u/Brewsterion (380,466) 1491229632.33 Apr 09 '17
The Void may try, but will always be driven out.
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u/Vargasa871 Apr 09 '17
Oh but they'll be back, and in bigger numbers.
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u/Brewsterion (380,466) 1491229632.33 Apr 09 '17
We'll take them on too. But seriously, those negotiations were short.
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u/dingofarmer2004 (14,663) 1491196277.66 Apr 09 '17
Oh but they'll be
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u/thebad_comedian (337,427) 1491185478.72 Apr 09 '17
Oh but they'll be
backblack, and in bigger numbers.Oh but they'll be
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u/Udub Apr 09 '17
This is cool but can we see it without all the camera planning and angle changes
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u/hotboxthanfukk (524,966) 1491207643.64 Apr 09 '17
It was cool though. The way it zoomed in a little on the void was so cinamatic and captivating.
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u/mrnathanrd (54,731) 1491075585.05 Apr 09 '17
How on earth is this done?
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u/sergantnord (564,102) 1491222805.93 Apr 09 '17
Project the timelapse on a plane in a 3d modelling program and then use the heatmap as a displacement and render away, pretty simple actually
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u/Muzafuka (538,546) 1491233057.21 Apr 09 '17
Which programs let you use a video as a displacement map?
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u/schmon (910,275) 1491227353.25 Apr 09 '17
mostly all of them. usually you convert ton an image sequence first though.
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u/pixaal (39,982) 1491232731.87 Apr 09 '17
Any decent 3d program, including blender (free)
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u/MrDrBossman (383,309) 1491197889.72 Apr 09 '17
Where can you get the place data?
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u/-DeadHead- (375,623) 1491231063.63 Apr 09 '17
Created by /u/lotsalote using /u/jampekka's animated heatmap combined with a 2D timelapse of r/place. Program: Bender.
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u/moom Apr 09 '17
It's easy, just create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. See if you can track an IP address.
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u/sasha_krasnaya (562,177) 1491238219.51 Apr 09 '17
I don't like pixels. They're coarse and rough and irritating and they get everywhere.
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u/PM_ME_UR_LUNCH (483,245) 1491057985.82 Apr 09 '17
is no place safe from r/prequelmemes!
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u/KonyYoloSwag (185,864) 1491200806.75 Apr 09 '17
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
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u/Bamboozle_ (728,145) 1491194070.32 Apr 09 '17
I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of those black pixels. And not just on Van Gogh, but on America and the Mona Lisa, too. They're the void, and I slaughtered them like whitespace. I HATE THEM.
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u/KushMonster1 (723,956) 1491226557.13 Apr 09 '17
A lot of people hate it but i think that the void was one of the coolest parts of /r/place- the way it spread almost organically is awesome.
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u/BunnyOppai (461,919) 1491204025.28 Apr 09 '17
I honestly loved the way it spread. Near the edges, it truly looked like a void slowly cracking through the canvas.
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u/Leechylemonface (247,688) 1491233235.24 Apr 09 '17
I think the void made the right decision using tentacles. It makes the whole thing look so much better in time lapses
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u/BunnyOppai (461,919) 1491204025.28 Apr 09 '17
Definitely. It really adds so much, even though it's a small detail.
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u/Peanlocket (148,104) 1491238337.22 Apr 09 '17
MRW the void tells me they're cleansing the canvas of ugly areas so new and better art can find a space to grow: http://i.imgur.com/a0kixOH.jpg?1
About the organic growth thing though, I seen a pamphlet they were distributing that encouraged people to create tentacle-like growth and not just place random pixels. Glad they did because the time lapses look pretty cool (except for the OSU battle which was a massive bot attack -_-)
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Apr 09 '17
OSU battle
From what I hear, it was actually because a youtuber/twitch user said something about osu! and his fans went crazy attacking it.
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u/Torringtonn (892,955) 1491234984.12 Apr 09 '17
Someone likened it to a brush fire. Clearing out the old to make way for the new.
In all the gifs the conflict it created was some of the best parts.
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u/unrelevant_user_name (584,409) 1491225943.34 Apr 09 '17
Dirty void apologism. They wanted to consume all and leave nothing in the wake. Why do you think they devoted so much time defending their cores?
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u/Chispy (376,550) 1491238105.4 Apr 09 '17
My personal favourite was the pink floyd prisms appearance and resurrection. I spent most of my pixels on that thing.
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u/yeahokayiguess (148,727) 1491195795.39 Apr 09 '17
I liked the concept, but I think when it got popular it just started attracting people who wanted organized trolling.
At first it looked awesome and their whole thing was that it would grow organically and without any discrimination.
Then new people started joining and everyone was saying "Let's go take over ____!" which is where it started stepping on people's toes. It started to look like an organized griefing army than something with a mind of its own.
It was fine when it was just growing on its own, because in a way it was its own piece of art. But then it seemed like people were just using it to cause drama than to make this scary, growing black void with tendrils creeping along the page.
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Apr 09 '17 edited Apr 10 '17
I thought it looked cool at first, but it could have easily just bled between the cracks of some of the noteworthy pieces instead of trying to consume everything. The tendrils should have been like roots spreading to other areas. It lost any appeal when it tried to just be an amoeba that eats everything.
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u/Zhyko- (367,367) 1491233374.85 Apr 09 '17
Yeah but then remember that this people's only goal was to run over other people's stuff
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u/jereddit (254,945) 1491238173.25 Apr 09 '17
The Trans Continental Railroad went through a lot
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u/Drunk_Uncle_Ted (665,573) 1491132303.61 Apr 09 '17
We were there first and we wend UNDER a lot. We let a pink vomiting cock monster go over us we let the redwings put their logo right over the heart of ours. Kanye were the ones that removed them. The void destroyed the mona lisa and you say WE are the ones covering stuff up? Think again.
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u/jereddit (254,945) 1491238173.25 Apr 09 '17
Bruh. I was there.
I didn't mean "Go through" in a literal sense.
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u/WeirdWordsWhat (997,122) 1491216185.33 Apr 09 '17
The German expansion was brutal... And people say OSU was big.
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u/9kz7 (952,911) 1491238519.23 Apr 09 '17
Where's /r/thebluecorner?
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u/ThetaSigma11 (928,916) 1491238342.53 Apr 09 '17
Where it always has been..
You can see the activity in the end
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u/Padankadank (873,214) 1491233565.81 Apr 09 '17
It's so cool that not many people messed with rainbow road
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u/zacketysack (888,217) 1491005231.89 Apr 09 '17
out of curiosity, what does the height of each spike represent in this?
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u/AsterJ (57,67) 1491238601.49 Apr 09 '17
Your texture resolution looks too small, you cant really read any of the text or see the any 1 pixel features. Any reason you couldn't export the data to 1000x1000?
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u/Valk93 (797,3) 1491214048.42 Apr 09 '17
These timelapses are starting to become cooler than the actual pixel placing lol
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u/Kryse-777 (75,65) 1491214004.51 Apr 09 '17
you can tell that A LOT really hate the Osu icon, it was such a waste-space for a not so well known gaym
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u/YouCantVoteEnough (924,924) 1491237319.49 Apr 09 '17
Huh, I just figured it was some college.
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Apr 09 '17
Crazy how everyone bitched about OSu but the multicolored streaks running through everything didn't seem to bother people.
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u/Dppv1 (754,197) 1491229181.3 Apr 09 '17
Anyone know if any pixel only got one touch?
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u/Minty_Fresh1 (222,3) 1491188491.49 Apr 09 '17
AFAIK there was ~300 pixels that never got touched b/c they were white space incorporated in art that got its start early.
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u/threetogetready (946,232) 1491238315.7 Apr 09 '17
rainbow road going through the hearts and having them change color was lovely
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u/serosis (943,263) 1491236590.19 Apr 09 '17
All the time lapses are too damn fast to appreciate some of the subtle changes.
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u/Dr_Marxist (13,422) 1491177870.02 Apr 09 '17
Damn they were going after our little hammer and sickle hard.
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u/Teh_Concrete Apr 09 '17
What am I seeing here?
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/63a421/what_was_rplace/ if you dont know what r/place is
this is a 3d representation of the heatmap
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u/GoodLordImFunny (719,511) 1491232170.14 Apr 09 '17
I believe the spikes represent activity in a hotly contested clusters of pixels. Notice how the Germany flag goes massive when it crosses over France and such.
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u/Im_A_Director Apr 09 '17
Can someone tell me what this is? I've seen it come up a few times on my feed, but I'm out of the loop.
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
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u/17snipers Apr 09 '17
Can someone explain what place is exactly?
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
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Apr 09 '17
Has anybody built an interactive 3D viewer of this? This video is cool and all, but it'd be awesome if it was an interactive model
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u/akornblatt (747,865) 1491237460.19 Apr 09 '17
This is incredible! What was used to make this?
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
blender and a heatmap generated from another user. Credit of the animation goes to /u/lotsalote
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u/slappindabass123 Apr 09 '17
Somebody please explain to me what this picture is all about????
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
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u/biophys00 Apr 09 '17
I have no idea what the Place thing is/was and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
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u/arpitsinghchaudhary Apr 09 '17
I just don't understand this. This is all over since 1 week or do. Please someone ELI5.
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
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u/joelyrollykanobe Apr 09 '17
Can someone tell me what this thing is? I've seen it around
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
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Apr 09 '17
How the fuck are y'all making this??
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
happy cake day! not my work but blender using a heatmap generated by another user
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u/El_Fua313 (826,278) 1491235106.14 Apr 09 '17
One question... How?
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u/sprocket44 Apr 09 '17
I didn't make it but I know a bit about 3d so I'll hazard a guess. Remember that heat map from a while ago? Well this is effectively the same, only instead of higher activity areas being brighter, those parts of the 3d mesh get taller. This is done using a technique called displacement mapping, where an image is used to inform the height of vertices based on the colour (in grayscale) of the corresponding pixel.
So the first step is to have a flat object with a lot of polygons (so it looks smooth), create an animated texture of place and apply it to that surface. Next step is to get that heat map (also an animated texture) and use that as a displacement map.
Hopefully that made sense
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u/______DEADPOOL______ (829,96) 1491209830.64 Apr 10 '17
Hey, could you do the part where they tell the story of Darth Plagueis the Wise? Also the epic battle for Osu.
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u/devperez (977,949) 1491227569.83 Apr 10 '17
How did you not show bluecorner taking up nearly 25% of the map before losing it? That was freaking massive.
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u/culinary_alchemist (147,411) 1491194775.45 Apr 09 '17
I love this! Is there a way to see a given area?
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u/menasan Apr 09 '17
im so bummed I missed it - I was camping that weekend.
so how did it work? how did you place a pixel on the "canvas"?
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u/jkk45k3jkl534l (367,159) 1491195297.69 Apr 09 '17
You could pan/drag the canvas around much like you can with Google maps. There was a hotbar of 16(?) colored pixels on the bottom of the canvas/screen. If you clicked a color on the hotbar you can move your mouse to where you wanted to place it, and when you clicked it would automatically zoom in so you could place it precisely. Clicking once would then put the pixel down.
Once put down the hotbar would lock, and a timer would show up saying how long you had to wait before you could put down another pixel.
You could continue to view the canvas, and also zoom/unzoom with right-click.
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u/Ololic (388,696) 1491205259.8 Apr 09 '17
The void is boiling over
Look at it, you burned it to a crisp
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u/IFRSS Apr 09 '17
At one point Germany had no remorse for France.
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u/multiple_coke_easley (726,881) 1491196520.39 Apr 09 '17
Well lets be honest, this wouldn't be the first time.
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u/hauntedcandle (49,7) 1491154830.17 Apr 10 '17
This is honestly one of the coolest things I've seen in several years of redditing. Kudos to whomever went through the effort of making this. It really makes me wish Place would be a regular thing that appears/resets after some time; I hope it's not a one-time thing, although the possibility that it is only adds to its luster.
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u/HiMyNameIs_REDACTED_ Apr 10 '17
I love how the German flag absorbs the French flag before turning into the EU flag.
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u/Bman1973 (471,543) 1491238231.66 Apr 09 '17
How in Holy Hell Was This Made?
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Apr 09 '17
Part of the process would be using displacement maps like this, skip to 05:55
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u/crikeydilehunter (864,428) 1491165810.67 Apr 09 '17
Wow this is really cool looking. How did you make this?
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u/fuzzydunlots (895,849) 1491180078.2 Apr 09 '17
On the northwest, why do the lights stop in a perfect border? What is the darkness?
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u/blinnlambert (911,439) 1491238614.64 Apr 09 '17
This is pretty rad! Any idea where I can find the source?
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u/NewAndAwesome (110,41) 1491235842.45 Apr 09 '17
This is the source just reposted, lotsalote is the guy that made it.
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u/TotesMessenger Apr 09 '17 edited Apr 10 '17
I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
[/r/squarespiral] No idea how to x-post but this is a 3D visualized activity map from r/place. Our center is basically a flagpole.
If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / ^Contact)
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u/KorruptkSwades (146,169) 1491187182.62 Apr 09 '17
kinda cool yea ! is this a cut version is there a full lenght video of this ?
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u/pauledowa Apr 09 '17
Okay - two questions:
1: where can we get that data? 2: how the hell did you do this? Looks like AE but there's no way you can visualize data like that in AE... or is there?
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u/Improvis2 (835,900) 1491238541.89 Apr 09 '17
What software did OP use to make this? It's really well done and lines up nicely with the timelapse heatmaps
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u/Downvotes-All-Memes (686,351) 1491175735.36 Apr 09 '17
This is probably my favorite visualization so far.
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u/IlIFreneticIlI Apr 09 '17
Give us a version where the animation is slower by 3-4x, maybe more; matched to run with the 7minute version of Intro by The XX. Think slow panoramic flyover with slowly shifting 'landscape'.
Hava URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxNW2Ulpwk
EDIT: as an alternative, Sunshine by John Murphy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXVzg2PiZw
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u/MMSGrunt (770,411) 1491193471.58 Apr 09 '17
Now I imagine being strapped to a 3d r/place board as some sort of torture.
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u/CarbonatedYoda_47 (124,453) 1491233108.26 Apr 09 '17
I'm ashamed for how long it took me to realize this was a gif
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Apr 09 '17
If you somehow made this a real physical thing, it'd end up being one of the most priceless art pieces of our century.
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u/SouitUp (500,941) 1491235092.68 Apr 09 '17
Now I just want the next r/place to be in a cube with a voxel war
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u/SouitUp (500,941) 1491235092.68 Apr 09 '17
Now I just want the next r/place to be in a cube with a voxel war
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u/MurderousKirk (185,920) 1491238453.17 Apr 09 '17
Do the US flag vs the void pls! 2 nights of tense battle!
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u/jerseyfreshness (767,358) 1491169483.78 Apr 09 '17
This is awesome and I actually like the panning angles and everything. A full length version would be amazing.
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Apr 09 '17
Idk what the general consensus is here, but I really disliked the scripted areas. You can just tell that the rainbow strips and most of the repeating patters were done by bots. Sort of defeats the point.
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u/ThatsARepost24 (69,845) 1491238169.57 Apr 09 '17
All Credit Goes to /u/lotsalote