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This has been featured around the Innernet recently, so why not here? Personally, my biggest skepticism is that I suspect it actually needs a mix of dark soy sauce and a much lighter sauce that floats on top?

I dunno though, maybe the 'trenches' are so deep that it works with simple soy sauce? Pretty dang clever, either way.

In the spirit of Starship Troopers, if you'd like to know more:
https://www.boredpanda.com/dishes-sauce-images-appear-3d-print-japanese-redestu/

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So it really just works with nothing but soy sauce..?

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yes. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. The deeper areas are darker because they hold more sauce.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

It would work with piss too

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Sorry. Didn't realize I had to be a major genius. /s

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Deeper areas are darker? Oh yeah, then explain why a flat swimming pool has dark patterns on the bottom! Checkmate, translucency believers. /s

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A flat swimming pool wouldn't hold any water, you're thinking of a parking lot

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, parking lot is now full of soy sauce

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How can you tell? Did a shrine or cat appear?

[–] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

Redundant. All shrines are for cats.

[–] Amelia42@piefed.blahaj.zone -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My personal skepticism is because I am now skeptical that any image that seems too good to be true is AI generated. And the sauce lines look almost artificially clean and complex with the shrine.

Like the shrine's reflection off of the lake, getting progressively lighter towards the bottom of the plate too? Impressive.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

My personal response is because I'm responding that I responded a response.

[–] Pupschism@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Soy sauce would work like an ink. Here's a picture of watercolour inks, each column is one ink, with each row representing how much ink is soaked in.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeap, as someone who's done his share of watercolor art, I do grasp the concept. Any doubts I had were related to a level of skepticism about the depths of the trenches.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you recommend which is tastiest?

[–] Pupschism@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Unburnt kikkoman