Turn photos into dice art

Dice art is a form of mosaic art where standard six-sided dice are arranged in a grid to recreate an image. Each die face (1 dot through 6 dots) acts as a different shade of gray. When hundreds or thousands of dice are placed together, the individual faces blend into a cohesive image, much like pixels on a screen.

It depends on the size and detail of your design. A small dice portrait might use 400 to 900 dice (20×20 to 30×30 grid), a medium project around 1,600 to 2,500 dice (40×40 to 50×50), and large-scale pieces can use 5,000 or more. Diceify automatically calculates the exact count based on your chosen dimensions.

For the best results, use both black and white dice. This gives you 12 brightness levels instead of 6, producing much clearer images with smoother shading. Black dice alone still work and some people prefer the look, but the detail is noticeably reduced. White dice alone don't produce recognizable images because there isn't enough contrast range.

No. Dice art generators downscale your image by aggregating groups of pixels into single brightness values, so a low-resolution or even slightly blurry photo works fine. What matters more is the composition. Zoom in on a face and make sure there's good contrast between the subject and the background.

A small 20×20 portrait (400 dice) might take 2 to 4 hours. A medium 40×40 piece (1,600 dice) can take a full day or two. Using Diceify's builder speeds things up significantly because it zooms in on your current position, tells you how many continuous dice of the same value to place, and tracks your overall progress.

Both are grid-based, but they use different elements. Pixel art uses colored squares, giving you unlimited colors. Dice art uses six-sided dice, giving you up to 12 shades (with black and white dice) and adding a three-dimensional, tactile quality that you can't get with flat media.