Hi there. Just wanted to share a couple of images of the translucent 2014 and the "marbled"/swirly 2015 Regionals promo dice. I was so fortunate to place 8th in a regionals this Sunday and last year I respectively placed 8th in one Regionals and won another so I have both kind of dice. And since I have access to a CT-scanner at work I couldn't resist taking a proper look inside both sets.

As most have seen, the translucent have a lot of air bubbles of varied size and positions so I was excited to see how the new ones was cast.

1: The positioning and preparation of the scan. R2-D2 insisted on supervising the entire process. All Attack & Defense Dice was positioned the same way. As can be seen Attack Dice were faced "Crit" up and adjacent "Blank" vertical; Defense were placed "Focus" up and the adjacent "Blank" vertical

2: Scout/Localizer of the dice and R2-D2: Already at this preview scan the air bubbles can clearly be seen as the black "spots" in each dice

3: 3D MIP reconstruction of the actual CT-scan. The air in each dice have been colored blue using the OsiriX DICOM Viewer (software used for viewing and evaluating scans.

4: Cropped 3D reconstruction of a Volume Rendering. The dice have been cropped halfway through. Here the air bubbles can once again be seen as slightly irregular darker areas inside each dice.

What does this tell me/us/you?? Well all the dice have air inside them, the distribution is (not surprisingly) uneven and apparently unrelated to the facing on the dice.

Does this effect the result of the individual dice?? I don't know and do not plan to test or "take advantage" of a particular "favorable" dice.

When I get the chance I will do a scan of the original dice from the Core set and Dice Expansion and post it for comparison.

Take care

(Edite: replaced the 3D MIP reconstruction with an improved image instead of a picture of the screen)

Excellent use of technology

Looking fairly consistent actually.

Not incredibly consistent, but decent. I would bet the other dice are much different though, since they are made in a different factory and quite (?) different material.

That is such a nerdy thing to do.... and awesome

I bet your dice feel pretty violated right about now...

This nerd goes to 11!

if you send me the CT data, I can render a 3D model with it and print out exact copies of your dice on a 3D printer, including the exact location and configuration of the air pocket(s).

if you send me the CT data, I can render a 3D model with it and print out exact copies of your dice on a 3D printer, including the exact location and configuration of the air pocket(s).

Thx, but that might be pushing it a bit too far. Besides we do have a 3D printer at work too, but I do not feel the need to go in to counterfeiting just yet ;-)

if you send me the CT data, I can render a 3D model with it and print out exact copies of your dice on a 3D printer, including the exact location and configuration of the air pocket(s).

Thx, but that might be pushing it a bit too far. Besides we do have a 3D printer at work too, but I do not feel the need to go in to counterfeiting just yet ;-)

It wouldn't be a counterfeit anyway, since the material would be wrong. It'd just be fun.

If you get a chance, do some regular dice too. I'm sure they have air pockets too, would be nice to have some solid proof.

Multi-million dollar life-saving medical machinery used to scan dice for air pockets...

HELLZ YES!!!

Just don't let your boss find out...

Or counter-critting as it were.

I have heard the 2015 promo dice have 4 evades for green, 2 crits for red, and 3 focus results on both

would be cool if somebody made some after market ice dice or metal X-wing dice...

Run a reference scan on the normal dice set, the we can compare if there´s any difference or are they rock solid. Or is it like in a firing range, only tracers ricochet

I am also interested in what the "normal" dice are hiding inside.

Here's the scan uploaded to YouTube with a little explanation

https://youtu.be/lEMncC00jQc

Asked in the other thread but you may have missed it; can you post the DICOM CT files?

Asked in the other thread but you may have missed it; can you post the DICOM CT files?

Saw it alright. Just not sure if I am going to

Today I've brought 3 of each original dice from the core sets, hopefully there will be 5 min of scan time available.

Stay tuned.

Asked in the other thread but you may have missed it; can you post the DICOM CT files?

Saw it alright. Just not sure if I am going to

You tease!

Scan have been performed. Results/pictures soon, but I can say that there's lots/similar air bubbles in the regular dice as in the Regionals

So here is a movie of the CT scan of the regular Core Set dice.

There's certainly air bubbles in these dice too, and to me it looks as if the air bubbles are a bit more unevenly in size and distribution compared to the other 2 Regional Dice editions.

https://youtu.be/3EK1yAt5qkk

Will do a Intra-Dice Air Volume spreadsheet later