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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 Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday April 10 2017, @08:01PM (2 children)
I think the overall point was that the project served as a microcosm of the world.
Resources are limited. Destruction forces you to either maintain or improve the things you value most.
Without destruction, the image would have stagnated.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @08:47PM (1 child)
By stagnated, you mean would have reached a point of stability where improvements and innovation tapered off.
Destruction is not necessary for innovation.
The destruction merely caused an accelerated expenditure of resources on the part of creators and protectors.
Without destroyers, the end point of the final image might have been much better because resources would not have been wasted.
The additional energy of creators and protectors might have gone to building something else if someone had not gone down main street and burned all of the businesses. Maybe a new school would have been built.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by pnkwarhall on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:06AM
Without destroyers, the end point of the final image might have been much better
You must have either 1) not looked closely at the beginning stages of the canvas or 2) have a subjective definition of "better" as "mass chaos". My impressions of the beginning of the artwork was a giant wall covered in small, crude graffiti. The artistic and aesthetic worth of the end result was of a **much** higher quality than the early stages, which were by necessity covered/destroyed by much larger and more cohesive graffitos.
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