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posted by on Monday April 10 2017, @02:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-did-it-reddit! dept.

The story that describes the creation of this crowd art is almost better than the art itself.
http://sudoscript.com/reddit-place/

Last weekend, a fascinating act in the history of humanity played out on Reddit.

For April Fool's Day, Reddit launched a little experiment. It gave its users, who are all anonymous, a blank canvas called Place.

The rules were simple. Each user could choose one pixel from 16 colors to place anywhere on the canvas. They could place as many pixels of as many colors as they wanted, but they had to wait a few minutes between placing each one.

Over the following 72 hours, what emerged was nothing short of miraculous. A collaborative artwork that shocked even its inventors.

From a single blank canvas, a couple simple rules and no plan, came this:

https://i.redd.it/5p68ukzkwdpy.gif [Ed. Note: This is a time lapse gif of the art created on r/place].


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by fishybell on Monday April 10 2017, @03:27PM (3 children)

    by fishybell (3156) on Monday April 10 2017, @03:27PM (#491661)

    Over the following 72 hours, what emerged was nothing short of miraculous. A collaborative artwork that shocked even its inventors.

    Bots. Lots of bots.

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  • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Monday April 10 2017, @03:34PM (1 child)

    by Rivenaleem (3400) on Monday April 10 2017, @03:34PM (#491669)

    Kinda Ironic that Lord Helix was one of the few to survive from start to finish.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:52PM (#491687)

      I like how Germany explodes onto the scene, blitzkriegs France, and then becomes the foundation for the European Union.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:21PM (#491707)

    Yes, and lots of basement dwellers controlling them, making alliances with neighbors and waging war on them. There's tons of talent that is keeping itself (or being kept) unproductive in our times.