If you are a collector of dice, or a maker of dice, and would be willing to either a) send me photos or b) give me permission to scrape your site for photos of dice, we’ll include your name and/or URL in the documentation for the project.
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What’s this all about? Well: I am *very interested* in how we can use technology to enhance the face-to-face experience of tabletop RPGs, and am working on the design of an app for this purpose. I’ve been missing a key piece, though — when at table, GAMERS WANT TO ROLL DICE.
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Beautiful, tactile, shiny, lovely, clacky dice. OUR DICE. But NO ONE wants to take time to enter the results into an app every time they make a roll. So… This project is one part of a system that I hope will allow humans to roll dice and robots to read and record them.
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The goal is that it will be able to analyze a frame and report back a) how many dice of b) which type and c) individual and total results. Once the ML model is trained, the researchers will make it (and its documentation) open-source and available for anyone to use.
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We need photos of all kinds of dice, on all kinds of backgrounds, in all kinds of lighting conditions, from all kinds of angles. Don’t TRY to make it hard on the robots — camo dice on a camo tablecloth is just cruel — but we do need varied conditions for training.
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Please DM me if you would like to help! And pass this along to your dice-making, dice-collecting, dice-loving friends. <3
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Lyz (
@EMGiosia) has kindly sent me some photos already. Here are some examples of what I’m looking for! (Note: Lyz is a pro photographer so their photos are *beautiful*, but it’s 100% fine if your photos are not! The robots lack good taste.)
pic.twitter.com/9tpGjJJDrn
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Some of what makes these photos good for training: - not all faced to e.g., a 20 - multiple angles - multiple backgrounds - multiple lighting conditions
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When possible, another thing that helps is a bit of space between each die (so the robots can learn e.g., what shape a d20 is). I’ll still take existing photos with dice that are touching, but if you’re pulling out a camera for new shots, this is helpful!
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If you are taking new photos, here’s a good guideline: frame maybe half a dozen rolled dice in a photo, take from multiple angles, then roll again. Do this a few times, then swap out for some other dice.
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These are a great model for how to do this: https://twitter.com/arkanjil/status/1221170981265272833?s=21 …https://twitter.com/arkanjil/status/1221170981265272833 …
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These are great too: https://twitter.com/wolfieiii/status/1221172757712572416?s=21 …https://twitter.com/WolfieIII/status/1221172757712572416 …
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Also, perhaps I should have mentioned this earlier, but this capstone project is part of Northern Arizona University’s capstone design project within the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems.https://nau.edu/school-of-informatics-computing-and-cyber-systems/capstone/ …
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I didn’t actually know about this until googling it just now
, but the team has built a website about this project:
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You can read more about the team members (who are the smart ones actually doing this work) here: https://www.cefns.nau.edu/capstone/projects/CS/2020/Digital-Roll-S20/documents/Team_Inventory.pdf …
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Y’ALL. I’ve already received over A THOUSAND PHOTOS to contribute to the project. The screenshot below represents about 40 those. ITS A LOT OF DICE. I can’t thank you enough — (But also, keep sending! The robots are insatiable!)pic.twitter.com/1f5QQqof0D
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Holy cow! Special thanks to
@TabletopLoot , who have just donated the entire catalog of their (lovely!) online store to our robot overlords. (Seriously, thank you!!) Http://TabletopLoot.comPrikaži ovu nit -
(I mean: entire catalog of PHOTOS. ML Robots don’t know what do with real dice.)
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I would like to add: another great possibility for a tool like this is accessibility. (Imagine having your dice rolls read aloud into e.g., an AirPod, or displayed in high contrast on a monitor in real-time).
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Something like this could also theoretically be connected to e.g., Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds, to allow folks to roll their own dice as input.
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