Dice mosaic art: Students' tribute to Ramanujan

Bengaluru | Tuesday | 1st May, 2018

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The two Srishti students are now waiting for the Guinness authorities to verify their evidence and furnish the award. After the(BIAL) agreed to host their artwork, the duo started ideating for visuals that would sit well in the context of the airport. Chopra and Vasundhara ran themselves ragged working hands-on to construct the frame and then, placing each dice individually.Thereafter, it was shifted to the airport and has been mounted near the domestic arrival section. Therefore, an image could be rendered in gray scale by using a huge number of dice,” the creators said.From the very beginning, the two were clear that the mosaic had to be larger than life. The two have used 40,000 dice to create the 100-sq-ft artwork.According to creators, they needed a few sessions of brainstorming before they could decide on using the concept of dice mosaic.“The different numbered faces of the dice—by virtue of their varying proportion of black and white—offered the ability to create shades of grey..