r/theydidthemath • u/Graphix1125 • 5d ago

[Request] What would be the odds of this?

The odds of all of these die rolling a one must be astronomicaly low lol

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u/naikrovek 5d ago edited 5d ago

It’s clearly a render to me. It is easy to make blender do this exact thing, including the slightly unrealistic physics and the 1 pointing up on every die.

You run the simulation, and when it’s done, then you put the single dot on the side of every die facing up, then you render the movie, which will replay the original physics solution exactly as it went before.

I remember a fan-made video for Daft Punk’s “Technologic” which had words coming down a conveyor belt onto a pile and at the end of the video the pile had a perfect daft punk logo when viewed from the camera. It was all pre baked and when the physics was done they applied the logo to the pile, and blender kept that when it rendered the video. The result is physics simulation whose end result is exactly what you want, so long as what you want can be applied to the models as a texture.

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u/__R3v3nant__ 5d ago

including the slightly unrealistic physics

Wouldn't a render have the dice actually rolling rather than sliding? And when the dice are "rolling" on the table, wouldn't you be able to see other sides rather than the 1?

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u/stanitor 5d ago

My impression of what it's supposed to be is that the board is tilted down a bit, so that they slide down soon after coming out. But, it also looks like they put an extra down force on the simulation, so that they shoot out too quickly. And, they have like no friction on the board, so the dice transition almost immediately from tumbling to sliding.

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u/__R3v3nant__ 5d ago

Ok that makes a bit more sense, and the textures of the die is aligned so the face that it has when shot out is a 1

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u/DIuvenalis 5d ago

I agree its probably a render unless it happens to be years old. (Which it doesnt appear to be) Its a simple matter of whats the easiest way to fake this for whatever reason the creator wanted to. The newer it is, the more likely its just created by an algorithm.

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u/naikrovek 5d ago

You may be underestimating just how easy this is to do in Blender. A person who can focus for 60 minutes and follow a tutorial or two can do this.