is this domino pyramid REAL or FAKE?! 😲

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2022
  • This viral video of a 3D domino pyramid reveals MARIO when it falls over!!! But there's a big debate... is it real or fake? Let's break it down in detail and find out!
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  • @H5dominocommunity
    @H5dominocommunity  ปีที่แล้ว +342

    do you think the pyramid is real or fake?! leave your guess below before watching the entire video! (spoilers are in the rest of the comments so don't scroll down yet!)

  • @ImaginmationsCamera
    @ImaginmationsCamera ปีที่แล้ว +1670

    My initial reaction: I think it's fake. Something about the level of detail, and how the image slightly slides during and after the falldown seems suspicious. Also some dominoes have 2 (or maybe more!) colors on them, and the statistical improbability that a domino with 2 or more colors would fall perfectly into place like that.

    • @jeltemreal
      @jeltemreal ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Same

    • @DanielleGomesdaSilva
      @DanielleGomesdaSilva ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same

    • @toiletgamer7742
      @toiletgamer7742 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same

    • @juanpavanegas
      @juanpavanegas ปีที่แล้ว +80

      the dominos moving after the image is revealed is likely jitter from the physics simulation. Very common when simulating many small objects stacking.

    • @willywonka21234
      @willywonka21234 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sub to this guy or I will kidnap you while you sleep

  • @Patricia_Taxxon
    @Patricia_Taxxon ปีที่แล้ว +866

    This kind of seemingly impossible forming of images from random stuff is actually pretty simple to do with physics simulations. You can imagine this creator setting up a simulated pyramid of dominos, letting it fall down, and then "baking" the procedure into a deterministic animation so they could then project an image of mario onto the resulting pile of dominos at the end & have them keep that color at the beginning of the sequence as well. Still impressive, but in comparison to the logistical nightmare this would be in real life I think it's 100% certain that this is a computer animated piece.

    • @Patricia_Taxxon
      @Patricia_Taxxon ปีที่แล้ว +18

      i was right :3

    • @fyretnt
      @fyretnt ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@Patricia_Taxxon it reminds me of captain disillusions video on a marble color sorter

    • @toastbrot97
      @toastbrot97 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That's exactly what i tink is happeining too.I would also assume that the dominos were stuck to each other to prevent them from falling over from the initial start of the simulation. And once the pyramid started falling a mask went from left to right over the pyramid, to take the sticking away progressively in roughly the same speed it takes the piramid to fall apart. An artiffact of that can be seen when the pyramid slightly starts bending and warping on the right as the pile of dominos on the floor is putting a force onto the rest of the tower, but since it can't fall apart, it starts to shift instead until the property to stick is being released. You can see what would happen if the dominos wouldn't stick to each other at 7:26.
      Another thing to consider is that there is no way anyone could have built this pyramid in the first place. You can't build the pyramid from one side to the other but you build it from the bottom to the top, but once the first layer is placed, there is no space to manouver around the pyramid to build the rest, since the room is too small.

    • @Papoompala
      @Papoompala ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Patricia_Taxxon I did not expect to see you here!!! I love your music!! :D

    • @I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes
      @I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yes this is certainly the case you can find a couple bricks that have 2 colours for example at 1:06 at the under middle of the stash there is a brick that's both stash and skin coloured. i don't know to much about dominos but i do know things about physics sims and with lots of smal parts they tend to vibrate a bit which would result in the spreading out of the bricks after they fall. the reason that they don't vibrate the pyramid apart is bcs you can lock individual physics objects till they receive enough force.

  • @BeigeNectarine
    @BeigeNectarine 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    It’s also in a very small room. It would be almost impossible for anyone to build a pyramid that big in a room like that.

    • @DangStank
      @DangStank 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Oh yeah, that’s true. You would definitely have to access the pyramid from all sides to build it

  • @Nako3
    @Nako3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +247

    The reason why I thought its fake is because he included the mirror shot to make us believe its not fake.

    • @NN-sp9tu
      @NN-sp9tu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Also why is the mirror image the wrong size..

    • @Nako3
      @Nako3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@NN-sp9tu ya

    • @christophearbus3523
      @christophearbus3523 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Then if I do something incredible and want to film it, I must be sure there is no mirror around. 🤔🙃

    • @Nako3
      @Nako3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@christophearbus3523 ya

    • @alexkoemans3173
      @alexkoemans3173 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Reverse cytology

  • @JRHainsworth
    @JRHainsworth ปีที่แล้ว +193

    As a 3D modeller, the slow movement of the dominoes once it falls definitely gives me the vibe of a rigidbody simulation.

    • @michaelbuckers
      @michaelbuckers 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Of a POOR rigidbody simulation with extremely low friction, because they couldn't get the material to collapse with normal amount of friction.

    • @games528
      @games528 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yeah, and it's incredibly easy to uv project the image of mario on the final result of the physic simulation, and have the dominoes have the correct colors at the start.

    • @DrTheRich
      @DrTheRich 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@games528 Sad thing is, i know how to do it properly, and it wouldn't have been that much harder. Tempting about making a better one...

    • @TJBDigital
      @TJBDigital 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      same@@DrTheRich

  • @KubeSquared
    @KubeSquared 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    For those wondering: the way you do it with CG and 3D simulated dominoes, is you run the fall simulation once with all the pieces the same color, then with the sim in its final state. you chose an angle from which you want to view it, then superimpose the image of Mario and give the pieces the "correct" color, then wind back the simulation. It's similar to those videos of marbles sorting themselves by color through a sieve machine.

    • @michaelmurray6197
      @michaelmurray6197 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly what I thought when I watched it. What gave it away was the fact that some of the pieces are half one color and half another color. There is no way you could predict exactly where those are falling. Then I looked a little closer and realized it's a 3D simulation, a really good one, but definitely digital and not real life. Which makes it easy. Run the dominos falling, then color them after they have fallen, and then reverse it and have them all fall again. Really easy since you know where the dominos are going to fall.

  • @user-hs9cl3sy1l
    @user-hs9cl3sy1l 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The oozing effect is immediately odd to me, and the room looks too small to build that structure in.

  • @Humblee115
    @Humblee115 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:39 you know that your the domino queen when your on top of the domino social media landscape

  • @heckensteiner4713
    @heckensteiner4713 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    My grandma always said: "If you gotta make an image with a domino pyramid, use CGI." I never knew what she was talking about until now. Wise words.

    • @staser
      @staser ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@TFFProd fr

    • @pleasecontactme4274
      @pleasecontactme4274 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@TFFProd moved to tears

    • @user-qv4zm2ps3u
      @user-qv4zm2ps3u ปีที่แล้ว

      ОРП

    • @chaosordeal294
      @chaosordeal294 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My grandma always said, "Flotsma . . . flotsma unbrechtunt tsip." I never knew what she was talking about

    • @Ugh258
      @Ugh258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My gandma told me “ 2036 the heat of the universe “ i still didn’t figure out what she meant...

  • @fluffycritter
    @fluffycritter ปีที่แล้ว +299

    Captain Disillusion did a really good explanation of this sort of effect in one of his videos. In that one it was a "ball sorter" which somehow caused all the balls to bounce into the right buckets; the implementation was really simple, where the physics sim was done on uncolored balls and then at the end of it the balls got painted based on the bucket they landed in. Simple but effective.

    • @hansolo15e
      @hansolo15e ปีที่แล้ว

      @Watermelon Monke same

    • @darrennew8211
      @darrennew8211 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. It's so easy to do in Blender I spent more time getting the blocks to bounce around than I did making them form the right picture. th-cam.com/video/sgFbPvN8S9A/w-d-xo.html

  • @etheriousjackal5577
    @etheriousjackal5577 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hope he watches your video and takes in the feedback. The CGI is very impressive and it's cool that he put in all those details which made the motions so realistic, if he works on it a bit more, he could probably make it seem even more real than it already is.

  • @ReasonX3
    @ReasonX3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Initially I thought its real, but then I asked myself: "How the hell can someone build a huge domino pyramid in such tight space"? Plus slow movements of dominos when they fall, an effect that you can usually see in 3D editors and video games.

  • @darioodde8590
    @darioodde8590 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    You can clearly see dominoes that are not one solid color at the end, but are coloured according to the final image, like half pink half brown. That tells you the image is superimposed

    • @KekusMagnus
      @KekusMagnus ปีที่แล้ว +16

      You don't even need to superimpose the image, just map it to the final dominoes resting position in a physics simulation of the pyramid collapsing, then re-run the simulation but with the color-mapped dominoes and that's it. This isn't even that hard to render

    • @Ranstone
      @Ranstone ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@KekusMagnus
      That is correct, it is not superimposed, but "reverse painted". Good eye.

    • @marlon6598
      @marlon6598 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KekusMagnus the only person with a brain in this entire comments sectoon

  • @FredMcIntyre
    @FredMcIntyre ปีที่แล้ว +415

    I definitely knew it was fake when I saw the dominos spreading after the fall, and the image looked too clean, especially around curves, though I didn't notice the compression of the pyramid until you pointed it out.

    • @Chillinbean
      @Chillinbean ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YOU SPOILED IT

    • @squidfresh3082
      @squidfresh3082 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@Chillinbean should’ve not gone to the comments. It’s not their fault, it’s yours

    • @FordFungus
      @FordFungus ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Exactly the same with me, as soon as I saw them spreading out I just thought ‘dominoes don’t do that’

    • @YayaFeiLong
      @YayaFeiLong ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The dominoes aren't actually compressing, it's an illusion. They're sliding outwards
      I'm not sure if a real domino pyramid would do that though, could be a quirk of the physics sim

    • @CC9L
      @CC9L ปีที่แล้ว

      @@squidfresh3082 almost everyone checks the comments bruh

  • @subwoofer1890
    @subwoofer1890 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The shine atop Mario hat was such a give away at the end as well

  • @marshwiggle8364
    @marshwiggle8364 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's impossible until someone with a domino setting robot decides "challenge accepted"

  • @Rickmakes
    @Rickmakes ปีที่แล้ว +193

    It seems like it would have been difficult to build in such a tight space. Would you agree or is that plenty of space to make a pyramid of that size?

    • @AsheeBep
      @AsheeBep ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Too cramped and dominoes, as far as I know, don’t change mass

    • @niconeedsanap8130
      @niconeedsanap8130 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think our eyes are playing tricks on us for example use the ladderlike thing and think of a ladder use it as a scale to measure the room

    • @AsheeBep
      @AsheeBep ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@niconeedsanap8130 Hmm but how did they find such “perfect” colours and in SUCH a small room?

    • @niconeedsanap8130
      @niconeedsanap8130 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AsheeBep im not talking about the pyramid itself my main argument is about the size of the room

    • @AsheeBep
      @AsheeBep ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@niconeedsanap8130 ok

  • @ericthomason8463
    @ericthomason8463 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    I applaud the creator’s efforts for making this. I doubt it’s possible for a domino pyramid to reveal an image after it’s toppled. At least one that’s as photorealistic as the one in the video.

    • @kodicraft
      @kodicraft ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The lights reflect accurately, the dominoes are rotoscoped on top of the ladder in the background, this was a high effort fake. Too bad the simulation kinda gave itself away

  • @kathleengillen8952
    @kathleengillen8952 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The way they had two colours on one domino made me realise it might be green dominoes and made it mario

  • @anthonyw5261
    @anthonyw5261 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Agreed on the mad props. I bet dominoe artists will keep working to make it possible. You guys are very creative so maybe one day 😊

  • @KatsyFNF
    @KatsyFNF ปีที่แล้ว +57

    When you immediately mentioned the domino "growing" like syrup, I looked on the outer edges of Mario's face and the colors were just cutting out, so it's clearly fake.

  • @TokinoSora10thApostle
    @TokinoSora10thApostle ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I'm a concept artist and I feel like it's 3d animation where the Mario is UV projection of a baked animation where the dominos already fell then reverse it.
    There's no transitory texture, they didn't change much.
    It's actually pretty creative 3d animation if i must say, the concept and execution is pretty well done.

  • @scrumbles
    @scrumbles 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is it even possible to build a pyramid that size in such a confined space? I'm imagining Tom cruise hanging in a harness building it.

  • @midori_the_eldritch
    @midori_the_eldritch ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel like the only way to get a high detail image from a falling domino structure irl would be to just make it so massive you can take a drone up and get the same effect as pixels on a screen or from a printer making it look smooth and detailed, even if it's actually fuzzy edges and 6 inches at the thinnest line

  • @That_Wise_Sage_
    @That_Wise_Sage_ ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I’ve watched enough simulation/3D animations like this to see the movement is computer generated. In fact, i also even saw a video where they can generate where it will fall, color it in its resting place, and make it so they were always colored like that. This is one of those.

  • @TManDude291
    @TManDude291 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The give away for me that this was a render was the mirror. As the distortion going on within it didn't match the angle of the camera view at all. Which is understandable as reflective surfaces are the hardest thing to get right in a CG render.

  • @CheezitBoi
    @CheezitBoi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It didn't take me that long to realise that it was CGI

  • @foxthroat3410
    @foxthroat3410 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those dominos do be shifting space it self 😂

  • @Wunba
    @Wunba ปีที่แล้ว +88

    That’s insane how real it looked! Imagine if they fixed the stretching and moving issues it might be completely undetectable! I wonder if this could be the future of domino videos!?🤔 although where would the fun of the building be?

    • @melody3741
      @melody3741 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You still have to build it digitally.

    • @evey55
      @evey55 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Wunba, you should do this in your Minecraft Hardcore World :D

    • @jabelsjabels
      @jabelsjabels 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think colormatching the plastic for that many different shades would be either a very expensive (pantone chips) or time-consuming (manual dye mixing) effort. It'd be believable if it used a lot less colors, or colors that you could buy dominos in off the shelf

    • @homelessrobot
      @homelessrobot 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      its still just a low resolution simulation. things like the friction of the surface materials, the precise mass of the dominoes, and the precise scale of the whole simulation don't really match reality. If you know what to look for a lot of these blender simulations start looking like old movie effects where they lit a match stick, slowed it down, and scaled it up in order to simulate a bulding fire. Its enough to let you suspend disbelief for a while, but the longer you look at it the more unreal it seems.

    • @illus1ve
      @illus1ve 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Even if the movement was PERFECT - the image has shading in areas that's just not possible with single color dominos.

  • @Klein24
    @Klein24 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When I first watched this, the moving dominoes (as stated at 4:40) was the first thing I saw... I immediately said "not real, definitely fake"... and then the dominoes getting smaller also is really weird. It's definitely fake!

  • @morganisapro6
    @morganisapro6 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The mirror is reflecting like the dominos are right next to it, but they're behind it a bit...

  • @wilcowilbrink8364
    @wilcowilbrink8364 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don´t have much experience with dominoes, but I made a 3d animation once for a tutorial site with blender (a 3d application), and one of the problems I had to deal with is that the domino pieces where moving a lot after they where fallen. Much like they are in this video.

  • @KnocktheBlocks
    @KnocktheBlocks ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It's entertaining to watch stuff like this even though it's obviously fake. It still is impressive that they put the effort into making it. After all most of us regularly watch big movies that's all fake and we know it. 🙂

    • @rauldeleon908
      @rauldeleon908 ปีที่แล้ว

      I want you to build a shark

  • @ralphmueller3725
    @ralphmueller3725 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think it's a 3D render with an image transposed down over the dominoes. It looks like at one point some of the dominoes change color to maintain the integrity of the image.

    • @therandompwdguy6849
      @therandompwdguy6849 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too.. even blender can do this .. lol

    • @DaellusKnights
      @DaellusKnights ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was the exact thing I noticed. It's especially noticeable on the mustache

    • @vikasmehra8105
      @vikasmehra8105 ปีที่แล้ว

      🎉

  • @brixlovesbricks
    @brixlovesbricks 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yeah, I agree, some dominoes are multicolored in a weird way that doesn't look common or real. But it's a really creative concept and would be super cool to make!

  • @TaranTatsuuchi
    @TaranTatsuuchi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember a Captain Disillusion video way back where marbles were sorted in a pegged board...
    It was computer generated.
    You run the simulation and then after it's over you set the colors for the pieces as you want them and then when it's played back they all fall perfectly.

  • @philvee727
    @philvee727 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's not real, this was made in CGI 😂

  • @pirobot668beta
    @pirobot668beta ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In the 3d software Blender, one can simulate the collapse of stacked blocks very easily.
    Not only that, but the path each block takes as it falls is precisely recorded.
    You can play the collapse forward or backwards, pausing at any point.
    Once the blocks are all fallen, apply a texture to the blocks projected from the camera viewpoint; this will color the fallen blocks for the 'reveal' pattern.
    Once the blocks are colored, play the animation from the beginning and watch in wonder as a shape appears out of chaos.
    I've made several videos using this process; a Galton-board model was my first.

  • @YamamotoTV2021
    @YamamotoTV2021 ปีที่แล้ว

    It should be possible:
    1. Write the numbers from 1 to 15,000 on white dominoes with a marker as you assemble them.
    2. Knock the tower over and note where each domino landed and what colors they should be in order to make Mario’s face.
    3. Paint and re-assemble dominoes accordingly.

  • @gekfurian
    @gekfurian 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's like the marble sorting machine. The color texture was put after the simulation was done.

  • @ireadalota
    @ireadalota ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It looks good at first. When you look closer the faults are obvious. And who builds something like that in such an enclosed space?

  • @Ackbars
    @Ackbars ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Also after the dominoes settle, you can see some jitter in some dominoes especially on the left hand side, common bug in physic sims

  • @animationenusw
    @animationenusw ปีที่แล้ว

    The first thing made me think it was fake, that the dominos still flow like water after they fell down

  • @HelloKittyFanMan.
    @HelloKittyFanMan. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How does someone not find the video link while the video's right in front of them? What happened to "share --|> copy address," etc.?

  • @AJDominoes
    @AJDominoes ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh my goodness Thank you for making me the community member i am forever greatfull

  • @mkygod
    @mkygod ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Im guessing they start with a colorless CG model and then the toppling is simulated in a physics engine. Once its on the floor, the dominos get skinned with Mario's face and then the model gets reset and it will fall exactly the same way each time. The way the dominos shifts strangely could be due to the friction values being set to low in the physics engine.

  • @godiloveyttd
    @godiloveyttd ปีที่แล้ว

    the lighting and mirror instantly told me it was fake tbh

  • @macaddict1337
    @macaddict1337 ปีที่แล้ว

    the movement at the end after falling is such a simulation thing, every one who ever did a iterative processes has seen this where a few nodes just keep twitching forever if you set a maximum change between steps and not go for a predetermined number of steps as an end condition

  • @LyssFr
    @LyssFr ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a 3d blender ultra realistic animation artist, I can easily see that this is a render, it has to do with both the fluid movement after the fall, the way the domino’s falls, and as well the sound not matching the width and length of the domino’s. This is definitely fake.

  • @benh715
    @benh715 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I would now love to see a real life attempt at this kind of picture. Fascinated to see what level of detail could be possible.

  • @Hasanex
    @Hasanex ปีที่แล้ว

    Also, I'm surprised she didn't notice but you can see the dominos on the edge of a color have multiple colours. Like at the edge of the mustache, there are dominos that are part black and part brown PERFECTLY placed to make that border.

  • @Minakie
    @Minakie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Even though it's just CGI, I'm still very impressed, especially with the sound effect, it really adds to the realism.

  • @Fidodo
    @Fidodo ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You picked up on most of the tells as well as some I didn't notice! The way the colors are added is by overlaying the image over the finished simulation, then applying the section of the image to the individual dominoes, but, they let the colors be granular enough to make these unrealistic multi-colored dominoes. They could have made it more convincing by calculating the most common color on each domino, then reducing it down to a color from a limited color pallet to avoid having multi colored dominoes, and it would let them pick out more realistic domino colors.
    The dominoes keep shifting after they hit the ground because the physics simulation keeps going and the dominoes are pushing on each other to prevent from clipping into each other causing them to slowly spread out. They could have made that more realistic by setting a resting movement threshold at which they could pause the dominoes so they don't keep moving.
    You noticed that the whole structure squished before falling. Very good eye! I didn't notice that at all. I'm guessing that the reason that happened was that they did some extra tricks to keep the tower from falling too quickly like in the earlier video of theirs you showed where it implodes. My guess is that to keep the tower from falling on its own due to the sensitivity of the physics simulation, and to keep it from falling all at once, they added some stickiness to where the dominoes touch each other, like a digital glue, so the structure would hold its shape better until the connections break. The caveat there being that squishiness you noticed since the structure was "glued" together. They could probably improve on that by pausing the pieces until a certain movement threshold at which point they could release.
    One tell you missed though was in the compositing, and it's one of the biggest tells. The creator was careful to add some physical geometry to the walls so the pieces wouldn't simulate past them, but they forgot to add geometry to one very telling spot, which is the step ladder leg. If you look closely, the dominoes simply go right through the leg as if it wasn't there at all, and you can even see where the real life image of the leg is blurred into the dominoes. They were very clever with the details, like the mirror to the left, but that one they missed really gives it away. They probably should have just removed the step ladder entirely.

  • @AnimilesYT
    @AnimilesYT ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My initial thoughts: I'm 99.9% sure it's fake. While it's falling you can see the screen distorting along the falling edge. The dominoes also keep sliding like there's no friction and they slide like everything is flat. It looks to me like they built a domino pyramid and made it fall, and also made a 3D video where it would end up showing the image like that. The dominoes on the edges also have 2 colors which coincidentally line up with how the image is supposed to end up. I doubt anyone has such a deep understanding of chaos theory that they can predict exactly how they're going to fall down so they can paint them accordingly. So yeah, I'm pretty sure it's fake. Nevertheless I do think it's very well made and I can easily see how it could fool those who don't know what is going to happen in the video.

    • @harmsc12
      @harmsc12 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think there's any distortion happening. I think it's just the dominoes in the simulation moving before they should. If I had to guess, the friction value was set too low.

    • @danigarcia2294
      @danigarcia2294 ปีที่แล้ว

      1. There is no understanding of the chaos theory. You can't predict it.
      2. It's a CGI pyramid applied over a video of the empty room, sounds were added later

  • @TheIckyKoala
    @TheIckyKoala ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My first thought was that it was fake and my guess was that it was 3D rendered with green dominos and then edited like a green screen.

  • @lightingboltbolt4167
    @lightingboltbolt4167 ปีที่แล้ว

    translation of the title of the domino video: Approximately 10,000 pyramid dominoes that are completed when broken

  • @tdubmorris5757
    @tdubmorris5757 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Initial thought: definitely fake - you can see the dominoes magically lining up after the pyramid falls and even tiny details that are impossible to predict line up

  • @Domino_Star
    @Domino_Star ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is fake but it's cool to watch a pyramid that falls and creates an image

  • @mrCheeeseGuy
    @mrCheeeseGuy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    they got the real life RNG manipulation

  • @Autumn5layzallday
    @Autumn5layzallday หลายเดือนก่อน

    The gravitational field strength on some of the dominoes towards the end is immense and practically impossible for thing of this mass.

  • @dominobrothers9293
    @dominobrothers9293 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You Always impress me lily I like that you can demonstrate anything and even if it is fake you still like it like always keep on building

  • @h7opolo
    @h7opolo ปีที่แล้ว +5

    decent fake. their perfectionism gave them away, cuz the dominos had multiple colors on them at the end when they should remain solid. hopefully, the creator watches your breakdown vid here and improves their animations.

  • @XAVIERCUERVO
    @XAVIERCUERVO 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the fact that it was built so close to the walls where you dont have room to move arount the piramid to build it
    gave it away

  • @dellycoderry
    @dellycoderry 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks a bit like my university project in Houdini with vellum grains but nowadays everyone using Blender for some reason

  • @robertyang4365
    @robertyang4365 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Prior to watching the rest of the video, I don’t believe this is real. As the pyramid is collapsing, you can see the right side pieces sliding/bending slowly. And there also appears so be some pieces that accelerate faster than gravity would let them at 1x footage speed. Finally, just statistically, getting those eyes in that perfect shape just seems unlikely, even with multiple attempts.

    • @RalseiGaming
      @RalseiGaming ปีที่แล้ว +1

      plus look closely at the blue domino at the bottom clips into it for a second and i seems the sliding blending in is a render bug plus look at it when it’s fully stacked the texture of the dominos aren’t just flat some dominos have more texture my guess is in they used something with geometry nodes and they actually started with it fallen down in the render so they can set were they want every thing to set in place i suspect they are using techniques the same as that marble sorter hoax from a few years ago plus some of the dominos just straight up appear at the bottom instantly

    • @RalseiGaming
      @RalseiGaming ปีที่แล้ว

      plus it also seems they forgot in the simulation to set the gravity to the correct density to be realistic in the simulation

  • @asyoz
    @asyoz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was really well done, but, what did it for me is that some of the dominos were dual-coloured. Have a look at the bottom of the picture, at the edge of Mario's face.
    While I could believe that someone's coloured dominos to have two colours, I couldn't believe that they could build that huge domino pyramid and manage to get the half-half coloured doms to fall in exactly the right place. Yup, it's fake. :)

  • @Ozasuke
    @Ozasuke ปีที่แล้ว

    In Japan, even dominoes have jiggle physics.

  • @takumi2023
    @takumi2023 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kind of off topic but could you make a pyrmid topple from the center? Would that looks asethetically pleasing or just logistically impossible?

  • @AlexDings
    @AlexDings ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:15 first thought: there's no way this is real. The way the dominoes fall exactly into place to make the pattern is WAY too orderly and smooth, especially the eyes and the logo on the cap. The idea is cool, but I've tried similar stuff and it simply doesn't work this well

    • @AsheeBep
      @AsheeBep ปีที่แล้ว

      Also the shape/mass of the dominoes at the end topple

  • @storkbreath
    @storkbreath 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Using a modeling program like this could be a good way to plan to make a crazy domino sequence in reality!

  • @nova_supreme8390
    @nova_supreme8390 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One could make physics simulation with any colored dominos amd then when they are on a pile, choose new colors for the dominos and just replay the simulation with the altered colors. That way you do not need to know which domino falls where at the start as you just pick them from the end result so you get the picture you wanted. That wa one could make the CGI version even more realistic. That however would require tons of power from the computer rendering the simulation.

  • @DakSenTheFox
    @DakSenTheFox ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was still really nice to see that. It really could be possible. Buuuuut it is like really not likely a structure like a pyramid can make an image.

  • @mariab.1997
    @mariab.1997 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought it fake at once. I took one look at the "M" on the hat and knew immediately due to the sharpness. While I think some computer may be able to extrapolate a build that would result in something like it, the fall cannot be predicted with such exactness as to have such a flawless image.

  • @PTMG
    @PTMG 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    also:
    Dominos changing color midair
    dominos that are 2 different colors when on the ground (like by his moustache, there are dominos that are half skin half moustache)

  • @davidroddick91
    @davidroddick91 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What convinced me was the fact that some dominoes were more than one colour, like half red and half white. There is no way you could predict where any domino will land to that level of accuracy.

  • @Alphisch
    @Alphisch ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My personal domino experience - dominoes in such quantity have enough weight to do some odd things.
    Yes it looks fake, but even if its an animation you have to give them credit

  • @nanos9
    @nanos9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I knew this was fake for the exacts reasons you thought also! I have seen many fake domino videos but i think they are for entertainment and I view them that way instead of being snarky and pointing out things to hate on it. Fake Domino videos are still cool!

  • @SweetHyunho
    @SweetHyunho ปีที่แล้ว

    simulating friction among blocks is apparently difficult. they often slide against one another. thats what causes the expansion.

  • @Amadeus_A
    @Amadeus_A 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone who isn't a domino expert, the thing that gave it away was the multicolor domino pieces. Like at Mario's cheek, there is a domino piece that's colored red and pale to form the shape of his cheeks. There's no way you can make a piece that detailed and plan it to land at the correct spot.

  • @Eastern_Edits
    @Eastern_Edits ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lol it's really reasonable how people got her to watch it, also the person why posted it knows A LOT of physics should I say

  • @andrewcook8093
    @andrewcook8093 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I initially thought it was a real pyramid filmed and then the domino colours added afterward because the picture is too good to be formed out of such chaotic motion. But I didn’t see the changing size and didn’t know that real dominoes wouldn’t spread like that.
    I think the dominoes spreading after falling probably would happen if the dominoes surface had less friction than a normal domino but that might make it super difficult to set up in the first place because they would slip over each other and it would be difficult to make a stable structures out of them.

  • @Xvladin
    @Xvladin ปีที่แล้ว

    The mirror being included in the video felt like it was just included to make it look real

  • @happily_blue
    @happily_blue 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you need to reach out to this guy to help him make his animations even MORE realistic!!!

  • @abatcat426
    @abatcat426 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I watched it at full speed, I saw the untouched dominoes wavering. Also, i saw that the bottom of his mustache has a few individual dominoes with 2 colors.

  • @whitetiana3022
    @whitetiana3022 ปีที่แล้ว

    to me the multicolored domino pieces that just happened to fall in the exact right way gave it away.

  • @studlyhungwell
    @studlyhungwell ปีที่แล้ว

    The mirror in the foreground is a nice touch as a convincer.

  • @doomus_
    @doomus_ ปีที่แล้ว

    i think its a realistic animation. the sliding of the dominos reminded me of those falling tetris blocks animations that i watch before bed.

  • @stone5against1
    @stone5against1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's super well done, but the main thing that made me say it's fake is the 2-coloured dominos falling exactly where they need to for Mario to look perfect. (and heck just the fact there's 2-coloured dominos in the first place)

  • @slygg
    @slygg 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The sliding at the end is typical of computer physics simulations. Usually, the multi purpose simulators used in the VFX industries don't really have mathematical correctness because they don't need to be precise, it's just entertainment.

  • @ADreamingTraveler
    @ADreamingTraveler 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Reason I thought it was fake because it just looked way too perfect once all the dominos fell. That's how I was able to tell instantly.

  • @Bluhbear
    @Bluhbear 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Physics aside, I'd like to see what the image would look like if the artist made sure each domino was a single color.

  • @Goddygoddy1
    @Goddygoddy1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He's trying to make it look real but he's not trying to trick people into thinking it's real.

  • @techguy6565
    @techguy6565 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is probably a computer simulation
    1) simulate the physics motion of falling of domino
    2) mark the domino on ground with different color that match Mario’s face
    3) Let the same simulation run again with the color

  • @unknownday8446
    @unknownday8446 ปีที่แล้ว

    At 5:37 when it’s really zoomed in, you can see some dominoes (mostly on the mustache) literally have two different colors on them. So like a domino could be laying with half on the mustache and half on the skin and you can see it is half brown and half tan. And this happens for many dominos. The lines are just too perfect for the domino (even if it was multi colored) to fall with every single line lining up perfectly. The animation was beautiful though so the creator still deserves a lot of credit.

  • @marcihuppi
    @marcihuppi ปีที่แล้ว

    ok, a motion designer here :) you can build it in 3d, run a physics simulation, latting it collapse. then project the mario image on the collapsed pile, then bake the textures to the dominos. :) thats how its done!

  • @joemieszczur9735
    @joemieszczur9735 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cap'n Disillusion did a great video on how this type of effect is achieved. you basically model a pyramid, block by block, then do a physics sim to make it collapse. now you have the whole process for collapsing the pyramid, you only need the colors last. which is done by mapping colors to the finished/final state of the dominos with the proper color. then you rewind the sim and bake the colors in.

  • @kerrybarneyiii1202
    @kerrybarneyiii1202 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The compression of the one side tipped me off first lol

  • @lilaluna8922
    @lilaluna8922 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The conveniently two-colored dominos on the edge of colors are a dead giveaway

  • @DutchBlackMantha
    @DutchBlackMantha 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First thing I noticed was fallen domino's that are not a single colour, lining up prefectly to form the image.