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Purple marks episode 4 of the Etch A Sketch color of the day! It's sure been fun to share some of my most obscure and eclectic Etch A Sketch variants with all of you. The electronic components inside my Zooper Sounds Etch A Sketch are unfortunately fried but I can assure that the sounds were most definitely Zooper.
TheThoughtIThoughtWasntTheThoughtIThoughtIThought
You go etch a sketch girl!
harmsebamse
Dark Magician, is a wonderful addition.
Eyhlix
Purple, my favorite! They're all great, though!
SilentSecretMan
May your etch-a-dreams come true!
CaptainProcrastinaut
I didn't know I needed purple glitter Etch A Sketches until now
reichstein
I'm not sure about this post.
It seems kinda... sketchy :)
VastMajorityRule
Game Cube necklace🤣👏👏👏
squirrely303011
The tisim
CthulhuCuz
How functional are heart shaped knobs for artists?
pikajane
They are definitely more of a novelty than a utility, heh. Honestly easier to use than the teeny tiny knobs on my necklace etch tho! Overall I tend to avoid drawing on that size in general tho heh
spinballwizardmtg
But is there a blue eyes white dragon to go with the dark magician?
pikajane
Yes! /gallery/LixwbI0
rbudrick
Aww yiss, it's Pikajane! Day is much better now.
pikajane
:D right back at ya rbudrick!
OnyxPrimal
I love both seeing all the variations and also your enthusiasm.
Bladedrummer
Adorbs
OliverOtter
Ah, so much glitter. It was a good time to be alive.
chadicaltaylor
I think she's really cute!
Cucumberclouds
Oohhh I really loved different types from the same order. https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlYWRobHZkZHVyYXpvYmZiazhhanV0d28wbHRibG41OHpjdWRlOGIzZyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/CmrkzmbuMVhdcDsNkd/giphy.mp4
ItsAWonderfulButt
I was about to go to sleep, now I'm wide awake googling etch'a'sketches as I had no idea so many variations existed, and that's just one colour, which you happen to own. Pretty cool.
pikajane
Honored to inspire the rabbit hole!
SniffMyPinkies
Where did you get the mini GameCube controller?
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eG8zdjNncWtkdWJnMm9wMjRpZWZqcTIzaTVhbGRya3lvOHViMGFkaCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/hgQfU8YMcfkuA/200w.webp
Trugster
Frank Bruno!
zaxlor
It's regular sized, but she's in fact 20 foot tall ;)
pikajane
It's a Nintendo Backpack Mini keychain that I converted into a necklace!
quintessentialrob
Those were some of the coolest ones I've seen
QotU
I think this is my favorite color so far!
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
dope gamecube necklace. gamecube controller is still the peak of all controllers!!!!
pikajane
Agreed!!!
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
only way to improve it 2 more buttons on the bottom of each handle that can be found on newer controllers and higher quality sticks
Chimaeraxxxxx
The glitter one makes me think strongly of my middle school days for some reason
onlyfourlinks
maincarrot
I've been waiting for purple! đź’ś
Hrafna55
How much storage space does all this require? Must be a warehouse of Etch-A-Sketches out the back of OPs house.
pikajane
I'm actually in the process of organizing my collection, and can confirm that the full collection essentially fits in ~8 small Home Depot moving boxes, and the bulk units I use for work all fit on a 18x48x72" metal storage rack!
7heng
omg the magician in the first one ! you rock ! and what is the bearded magician necklace?
pikajane
It's the Dumbledore puppet from Potter Puppet Pals! This definitely dates the amount of time I've been chronically online haha
7heng
oh nice !
I didn't know this existed o:
thank you for the reply <3
KiwiGameDev
Me, when I’ve misplaced my dark magician for a tournament: Hold on, does anyone have an etch-a-sketch?!
Septcanmat
…you’ve just got the wheels in my head spinning away on a TCG video game where instead of collecting cards and building a deck you have to live sketch the cards and how well you draw them increases their power. Like, you aren’t drawing whatever card you’re making up; there IS a card library in the game, you just have to have their designs committed to memory and be able to sketch them under time pressure.
reliablydefiant
So, you're saying that in order to play a card, you first have to draw it from the deck?
Septcanmat
Damnit I hadn’t even noticed that pun.
reliablydefiant
The accuracy measuring question is really secondary to the gameplay question. Can you just choose which card to sketch next? If so, you lose the entire deck building aspect that is central to TCGs.
KiwiGameDev
My understanding is you’d draw the card from the deck (draw is already confusing) and that card would already have a template of what it was SUPPOSED to be. The image portion is blank but the title is “Dark Magician”, it’s up to the player to then go “aha, okay dark magician is a purple armour dude with staff, I can do that”. Then the game goes “okay, purple? Check. Green staff? Oh it’s blue, that’s reduced points” etc
KiwiGameDev
Cause yeah if you could decide your top deck every turn from the entire pool of cards available it would be a nightmare to balance haha
Septcanmat
So my thought was actually that there wouldn’t be any deck building or card draw for what’s in your hand - it literally would just be “draw any card you can in the time alotted”. But again this was just the flash of inspiration that came to me, doesn’t mean it can be balanced. But you could balance it against things like… more powerful cards are more complicated / have higher requirements for accuracy / have more elements/layers that need to be included in the drawing, so that you aren’t just
KiwiGameDev
Okay main question, how’d you score accuracy? Is it like, a line drawing closeness test (like the Mario party minigame where you have to carve out a picture of Boo) or would it be a more advanced image detection system for locating key objects like “this appears to be a staff, this appears to be a hat, this appears to be a red gem. This is a good representation of Flame Sorcerer”?
Septcanmat
Off the top of my head, absolutely no clue. This may actually be a circumstance where the algorithms for generating AI art, like Stable Diffusion, might actually be useful as a means of calculating a “proximity” between what was sketched and cards in the deck. In theory you could have a human referee but obviously that’s not scalable, plus you run the risk of subjective evaluations of art. I never said this game idea was PRACTICAL, only that it popped into my head.
Septcanmat
Actually, after thinking about it a moment longer, and taking a cue from the Etch a Sketch… imagine for a moment that the drawings were only black and white, and fairly low resolution. It would be easy-enough to calculate a Hamming distance between what was sketched and a particular card’s artwork. Conceptually, you could scale that up with higher resolutions, and more colours (thought might need some fuzzy logic for distances between various colours), but that could be a way of doing it.
Septcanmat
You could also have a version of the artwork that is a “full render” version that people see, which is a full digital painting made by an artist. But in the backend it could be represented by one or more substantially simplified versions - fewer colours, lower resolution, etc. and it’s actually those low-fidelity renders that the accuracy is judged against. The idea being that a low-fidelity render is actually easier to recreate accurately.
Septcanmat
To build off the Hamming distance idea… I’m not an expert in compression or cryptography or self-correcting codes, but there may be applicable algorithms or theories from those disciplines that could be useful for assessing the “accuracy” of a sketch.