What does a one sided dice look like?

[InsignificantWeeaboo]

I've discussed this in chat with a couple of people, and we came up with a few ideas:

• 2D Object
• 1D Line
• The Origin (0,0)

I want to know what other people think.

[ddevans96]

Mobius strip, or alternatively sphere

[InsignificantWeeaboo]

Mobius strip, or alternatively sphere

I would think spheres would have an infinite amount of sides, since the more sides a 3D object has the closer it gets to becoming a sphere. A mobius strip could be a possiblity.

[Aves]

I kind of like the idea of a sphere, or marble working. Let's say that each side of the die is mandated to have a separate color. When you imagine a sphere, does it have an infinite number of colors, or is it monochromatic? Even if you try to give each point on the spheres surface its own color, the view you get of the sphere will have the colors blending together.

[roku]

I kind of like the idea of a sphere, or marble working. Let's say that each side of the die is mandated to have a separate color. When you imagine a sphere, does it have an infinite number of colors, or is it monochromatic? Even if you try to give each point on the spheres surface its own color, the view you get of the sphere will have the colors blending together.

yeah but that's just because of the way our eyes catch the light, that doesn't mean the sides all are the same

[Mr Muffin]

If you want to get geometrically correct a side is never curved so a sphere would have infinite sides. A mobius strip works for me. (EDIT: Wait a mobius strip is also curved so uh... not that either.) If you're not so technical then a sphere is good.

By the way instead of a one sided dice here's a dice with one side.



Strangely enough I didn't find a picture of a dice with a side of food so I had to put two pictures together.

[roku]

If you want to get geometrically correct a side is never curved so a sphere would have infinite sides. A mobius strip works for me. If you're not so technical then a sphere is good.

By the way instead of a one sided dice here's a dice with one side.



Strangely enough I didn't find a picture of a dice with a side of food so I had to put two pictures together.

oh hey, good meme

[CleanOnion]

Thinking of a sphere as being made up of many sides is a flawed way of thinking - using the same logic you can "prove" that pi is equal to four



Also a mobius strip doesn't really have the inherent "flippability" of a coin because it'd just land on its side and the side of mobius strip doesn't really mean anything

[dragonsdemesne]

Traditionally, I've seen it described simply as a sphere.

source: someone who owns dice from d3 up to d120.

[CleanOnion]

d3 up to d120.

You don't have any coins?

[JonathanCrazyJ]

I'd say a sphere wouldn't work. A dice only has its face written once, so if the sphere rolled so the '1' was face down it wouldn't be 1 rolled. similarly you could easily write a 2 on the other side and it would almost always be possible to tell which had been rolled, a 1 or a 2.

I would say a shape similar to a 3 d semi-circle, where it was weighted to always land with teh flat side face down, and a 1 on the top of the circle.

[Wyand]

Or alternatively: a buttered bread.