11-16-2007, 07:59 PM
About a year ago I mentioned that I was the inadvertent beneficiary of a youtube video on dice stacking.
http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/202...msg-202740
A German put up a youtube video on dice stacking that received hundreds of thousands of views. People would then google "dice stacking" and find my web site. (Several years ago I wrote a book and made an instructional DVD on the subject.)
Last February I uploaded a dice stacking video to youtube that showed a variation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie1lP3hofiI
In the video I collect a block of four red dice and four blue dice (colors appear to be mixed), and stack them them into two columns. One column has all blue dice, the other column has all red dice. The dice arranged themselves by color inside the cup. (I thought it was a nice addition to the other dice stacking videos that were out there.)
For the past nine months that color-arranging video has been averaging about a thousand views per month. This past Monday something shifted. The counter now shows a bit more that 29,000 views; 20,000 of those have been this week.
The funny part (to me, at least) is that many of these new viewers seem to think there is deception involved. (Magnets and trick photography seem to be popular choices.) I've since posted an explanation of how I did it on my web site, and told viewers how to get there.
It looks like the "mini-flurry" has died done now. Haven't gotten a dubious bit of feedback in over 24 hours.
Todd's bemused keyboard
http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/202...msg-202740
A German put up a youtube video on dice stacking that received hundreds of thousands of views. People would then google "dice stacking" and find my web site. (Several years ago I wrote a book and made an instructional DVD on the subject.)
Last February I uploaded a dice stacking video to youtube that showed a variation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie1lP3hofiI
In the video I collect a block of four red dice and four blue dice (colors appear to be mixed), and stack them them into two columns. One column has all blue dice, the other column has all red dice. The dice arranged themselves by color inside the cup. (I thought it was a nice addition to the other dice stacking videos that were out there.)
For the past nine months that color-arranging video has been averaging about a thousand views per month. This past Monday something shifted. The counter now shows a bit more that 29,000 views; 20,000 of those have been this week.
The funny part (to me, at least) is that many of these new viewers seem to think there is deception involved. (Magnets and trick photography seem to be popular choices.) I've since posted an explanation of how I did it on my web site, and told viewers how to get there.
It looks like the "mini-flurry" has died done now. Haven't gotten a dubious bit of feedback in over 24 hours.
Todd's bemused keyboard
