Topographical Heatmap of r/place

The elders of the internet devs and admins of reddit had some fun this April first with the introduction of r/place. It's a community generated masterpiece where each user was permitted to place one pixel of any color they choose on a canvas every five or ten minutes.

At first there was noise, and from that noise there was chaos, and from that chaos there was order... and memes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/

This 3D thing is an extruded heatmap of each pixel's activity for the full 72 hours of r/place. Higher points represent the most active pixel areas. A 16px Gaussian blur was added before 3D extrusion. Source heatmap was generated by /u/opl_