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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: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @08:50PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 10 2017, @08:50PM (#491935) Journal

    The phallic fantasy would be considered art by some. Especially if not harming others' work. But it could be considered destruction by others. The Joker (Jack Nicholson) on Batman had a twisted view of art.

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