Reddit Place (/r/place) - FULL 72h (90fps) TIMELAPSE

Here's a timelapse of the entire event: link to this video I found this whole thing to be incredibly fascinating. It's pretty amazing to see how everyone just sort of spontaneously banded together to create little works of art on the board which they could never have made on their own. Everytime I watch the timelapse I notice something new. It's also interesting to note that because the impact of any individual user on the board was pretty limited (you could only place one pixel every 5 minutes, and even then there was no guarantee the first pixel you placed wouldn't be overwritten by someone else before you were even allowed to place another), every significant piece of artwork on there had tens or ev…

I remember when "place" happened. It was a collaborative art project where for 72 hours users could place a single colored "pixel" on a blank canvas then had to wait 5 minutes before they could place another. Communities formed plans, and battles for space on the canvas were fought. Given the freedom to create something unique and beautiful together what did reddit ultimately come up with? Mostly a collection of corporate logos and copyrighted characters along with memes and flags. (see link to this video ) "Hordes of fanboyism" seems fair.

Did anyone note the similarity to playing Go / Weiqi? Watching 0 the blue corner expanded masssively and then getting eaten from within somehow reminds me of all of the complexities of playing go when someone can place stones anywhere in your territory. 0: link to this video

Here you go: link . And for those interested, here's some additional stats: - The original announcement about /r/place: link - Full timelapse of the canvas over the course all 72 hours : link to this video - Heatmap of all activity on the canvas over the full 72 hours : link by /u/mustafaihssan - Timelapse heatmap of activity on the canvas : link by /u/jampekka - Entropy map of the canvas over the full 72 hours : link by /u/howaboot (explanation: link ) - Map of all white pixels that were never touched throughout the event: link by /u/alternateme - Most common color of each pixel over the last... - 72 hours**: link by /u/howaboot - 24 Hours: link by /u/phil_g - 12 Hours: link by /u/…

At the moment, there's not much that is game like. I was thinking that if you had many people claiming tokens, then you might have factions that wanted to land grab from each other. (Similar to what happened when Reddit did something similar w/ /r/place: link to this video )

….) Embedded in the above is the collective psychology and incentives that attract humans to do the above activity. (aka Proof-of-Work). To see how simple explanations of Ethereum can leave out the mass psychology aspect, consider another example of an incomplete analogy: The Reddit Place experiment of 2017 ( link ) video of the pixels evolution: link to this video We could say that Reddit Place 1000x1000 art canvas is a worldwide "Adobe Photoshop" that runs slower than a 1990s 486 computer ... which is sort of true... but doesn't really explain the whole phenomenon.…