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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].
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 10 2017, @06:39PM (5 children)
Gotta cull the herd before you run out of resources, or a disease spreads and kills everyone.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @07:00PM (4 children)
The Shadows think that kicking over the ant hills every thousand years or so is helpful. I'm unconvinced. But not fully trusting of the Vorlons.
Maybe just properly manage herd growth and resources. Disease is an unrelated problem and affects any size herd. Genetic diversity helps. But some diverse genes are a disadvantage because they get you stopped at the US border and are disfavored by some politicians.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Monday April 10 2017, @07:55PM (1 child)
It's hard to trust a species when they've inserted themselves into your past as literal angels in order to patronize you even harder in the present.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday April 10 2017, @07:59PM
Well, all I am saying is, "GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR GALAXY!"
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 10 2017, @09:18PM (1 child)
> Disease is an unrelated problem and affects any size herd.
Culling the old and the weak protects the herd from the disease.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @09:58PM
Good point.
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