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- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -2/+81"getting them stickered"??
if he didn't solve each and every one of these cubes I'm bitterly disappointed... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40Email this to him I bet you'll get a mention on the show!
- ryanlrussell, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Oh yes, we solved each cube. Multiple times.
- Ugoff, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29How to get yourself mentioned on the Colbert Report.
- Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30Actually he's pretending to be extremely right wing. The right wing is generally Christian or some other mainstream religion. So why would he be pretending to be atheist?
- ryanlrussell, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Thanks. Though, I say "we" like I did a significant chunk of the work. I didn't. Dave did the vast majority of it, and the rest of us would come by his cube and maybe do 20 or 40 cubes at a time. Those little mini cubes are horrendous to turn, and you can only do so many in one sitting before your hands are sore.
- PixelVision, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Even today, all games start out as a pile of Rubic's cubes
- EarlOfLade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16That's what I call "pixels" :)
- wafflez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14wait...where's the relevance in this again?
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12awesome to hear ;)
nice work - ryanlrussell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11You can read the story behind the project at these links:
http://bigblog.typepad.com/bigfix_the_relay/2007/08/the-colbert-cub.html
http://bigblog.typepad.com/bigfix_the_relay/2007/07/cubism.html
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6247 - danomagnum, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11This is actually how they modeled all the sprites they used in NES games
- pjs1840, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Wow this is nuts. Very cool. If this hits the front page then he has to feature it on the show!
- washingtonsmine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Oh, I am 100% sure this will be mentioned on the show.
- noblepenguin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Just an FYI. Colbert is a Catholic (he discussed this in depth during an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air). But he's smart enough to see through the rhetoric and think for himself. That's part of what makes him entertaining.
- theholyraptor, on 04/07/2008, -1/+7and another person makes an ignorant comment about athiests. I don't care what religion Colbert practices. I respect Colbert because he's funny, edgy, his shows fun to watch and informative, he does play devils advocate and make fun of both sides even though his show is aimed at parodying right wing talk show type figure heads. I, as an athiest, don't give a ***** about what religion you believe, just don't harass me about your religion and expect me to adhere to your beliefs.
- PixelVision, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5she/he was obviously talking to Jesus
- noclue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Jesus, it sounds like YOU have too much free time on your hands.
- thefirelane, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5pay attention... -1
- TheLoneWolf071, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Someone has Way too much time on their hands.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10Boo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55244424@N00/455945352/in/set-72157600796814833/
They sanded off the sides and repainted. Almost dugg this. - mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4He's pretending to be the antithesis of an Atheist actually, Leonarde is a real tard.
I'm not sure what his point is anyway.. him being an atheist or not (almost positive that he isn't) has nothing to do with why I like him. - PixelVision, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4apart from taking a *****, what's the most productive thing you've done today?
- green1152, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4That is just ridiculous, but I love it!
- Battlecry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3After going through all the pages in the article, it appears that the cubes didn't come with white stickers. He scraped off some of the crappier non-square stickers and added white ones instead. Some stickers scraped off were green, orange, etc, so he could have a total of 7 colors for a greater color pallet.
Also, if you look at some of the in-progress pictures, the cubes were solved, and didn't just have the stickers reapplied. - funknjunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4let's see you do it then bitch
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3When did the cube get a flesh color?
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~matthewf/Cube.png - robszol, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5MyBabyMan is submitting a lot of front page stuff. I think I'm spending too much time on digg...
- lordsteve, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3All artists do. That's how they become great.
- 5lectro, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5What's with the Colbert personality cult?
- diatonic1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28-bit color would be way more than the colors on a rubic's cube. 8 bit would be 256 colors. This is 3 bit color :D
- DephexTwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I would say the old "wikiality" episode is what took it to new levels.
- rabidg00se, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2where did you get that idea?
- diatonic1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2All of the mini cubes he ordered came without white, he had to painstakingly re-sticker many of the cubes with a white side. Although, I guess this did give him a 7 color palette to work with, and some colors which were more 'portrait friendly'.
Read the thread at the twistypuzzles.com site for the full story. - morguth, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Restickered would be the term you're looking for, not painted, though definitely a big BOO for not solving them.
- noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what, would you prefer jimminy jilickers radioactive man?
- goldenratiophi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I bet most people who read your comment won't have any clue what you're referring to.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It appears that you are horribly confused.
- aupton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Egon Spengler ?
- dlitwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah, we didn't want pink and I spent a lot of effort getting white (which we wanted) instead. The eBay picture for the build mini-cubes somewhat hid the fact that they weren't the standard colors. And once you have 560 cubes with the wrong colors, you have to make do.
- DephexTwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Rowles?
- dlitwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1As a collector and speedsolver of cubes, I can appreciate it :)
- dRuNk3nIrIsHmEn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Rolls, roles.
I see what you did there. - ryanlrussell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We could do an arbitrary number of colors with more restickering work. However, the more colors available, the higher the chance that you'll end up with more than 6 colors in a given 9-pixel area. Meaning, you couldn't have a traditional 6-color cube. We consider that cheating, for some reason. And/or we would have to make a smarter dithering algorithm that would track how many colors per 9-pixel square, and we'd have to keep much better track of how many of what combinations of colors we needed, etc...
- ryanlrussell, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2We (well, mostly Dave) restickered one whole color on 6/7th of the cubes to white, since the cubes came with no white. While working on the several pictures and restickering, each cubes was probably solved to some pattern 3 or 4 times each on average.
- DephexTwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What a ***** waste of a comment.
- whyhoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1hey everyone!
SEE SPACE INVADER!
http://www.picturesonwalls.com/Art_Artists.asp?Artist=Space%20Invader&Offset=0&PageNo=1 - glycolized, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Only 768? 770, and you would have had me looking.
- nobeastsofierce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1is it bad I automatically pronounce it as Rapport now?
Maybe not here, but in the 99% of the time, where it doesn't relate to Colbert, it seems like A Bad Thing - dlitwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Finally, someone who can appreciate the process I went through picking the resolution. We started with 560 cubes (an eBay lot of 360 and one of 200), which was just perfect for 28x20 cubes, which is close to 4x3 ratio. Then the board I bought as a frame for it turned out to be only 24" tall, which would only fit 18 cubes high, so I switched to letterbox (16x9) format and used 31x18 for 558 cubes. But this was only 18 cubes away from true 16x9 (32x18) so I asked Ryan to buy another lot of 24. He bought 100 instead. So now I had 660, and went to 32x20, because I had the extra cubes and built a larger frame by then. But once you are at 32x20, how can you *not* buy another 100 (we had some extras as well) and add four more rows and make it 4x3 again (32x24)? So that is where it wound up.
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