Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis

[darjr]

Over on Slashdot there is an article about someones experiments with rolling dice and looking at their 'Fairness'. It's pretty interesting though I think it needs an article going over some conclusions without as much technical detail.

Plus the video is strangely meditative. For me anyways.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/12/01/1715253/experimental-study-of-29-polyhedral-dice-using-rolling-machine-opencv-analysis

[video=youtube;UdA5ydENTHY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdA5ydENTHY[/video]

https://youtu.be/UdA5ydENTHY

 

[Uder]

More commentary on the video above here: http://www.markfickett.com/stuff/artPage.php?id=389

Interesting to see this test confirmed awesomedice.com's finding that Gamescience dice don't like the number 14, but also confirms his theory that trimming/sanding the injection point can repair that.

Edit: not an ad, but I notice they put the 3,000 roll white Gamescience die up on eBay. A shame they started the bidding at $10 instead of $10.67