Probability

The following images are done by one of my favorite teachers, Kirkman Amyx. I have learned so so much from him throughout two semesters and today, he showed us some of his projects that have been showcased in galleries throughout the past few years. All of these projects are made up of thousands of images he took in order to prove the probability that randomness is not so random after a long period of time.

Over the course of 10 hours, Kirk and his assistant threw one dice 10,000 times, photographing each roll. He then created a stop motion video of the shots and a composite photo of 100, 1,000, and all 10,000 rolls. He also created composite photos of just the 1's, then 2's and so forth to show that they all begin to have the same basic pattern. Pretty crazy right?!

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One Thanksgiving weekend, Kirk took photos of all of his family members throwing 100 darts each. What he found was that each person has their own pattern and identity that can be seen in the photo, much like a portrait. For the exhibit, Kirk set up the photos with the names and ages of each family member and then combined them all for the image below. Kirk also tried doing this with various BAC levels; seeing the results in class probably the highlight of my day :)

I hope you enjoy these photos! They really inspire me because it is so amazing that you can take a simple idea like probability and try to prove it in such an artistic way that I can say I have never seen before. It also shows just how amazing a final product can be after lots of hard work and over a long period of time.