Domino, like many companies, is shifting to meet consumers’ changing habits. Instead of eat-in dining, takeout and delivery are increasingly popular options.
To address this shift, Domino’s has started offering new delivery options. For example, this week they announced that they would integrate their ordering platform with Apple CarPlay, allowing customers to place orders directly from their cars’ dashboards. This is just one of several recent innovations the company has made to capitalize on this trend.
A domino is a flat, thumbsized, rectangular block that has its identity-bearing face divided, by a line or ridge, into two parts, each either blank or bearing from one to six pips or dots: 28 such pieces make up a complete set. A domino is used in various games, most involving blocking or scoring, by placing the pieces edge to edge against each other so that their identifying marks match (as in a game of Concentration) or form some specified total. A more complicated version of this type of game is the multi-player game of dominoes, first recorded in Italy and France around 1750, where each player takes turns putting down pieces until the entire board is covered.
As a writer, the domino effect is a useful way to think about how a story flows and how each scene connects to the next. When a story has all of its scenes connected in this way, it will have a smooth flow that readers can follow without hiccups. But when a domino cascade fails to work, it’s easy for the reader to get confused and abandon the story.
For example, if a character does something immoral in one scene, the writer must provide logic that allows the reader to give the protagonist a pass or at least keep liking him. This is why older Clint Eastwood movies are so popular—they have strong moral standards that the characters always stay within.
Hevesh makes test versions of each section of a piece and films them in slow motion. This gives her the opportunity to correct any mistakes before putting up the big 3-D structures. She then adds flat arrangements and finally lines of dominoes that connect all the sections together.
She also plans out the layout of each piece before she starts building, with arrows marking the way each domino will fall. She can create designs that include straight or curved lines, grids that make pictures when they fall, or 3D structures like towers and pyramids. The key to making all of this work is the energy stored in each domino—it will resist moving unless there’s a force pushing on it. When that push comes, however, it will propel the domino over and into its neighbors, triggering a chain reaction. For Hevesh, this is the beauty of the art form she loves. She describes the process as “playing with physics.” To learn more about her creations, watch her video below. She also has an active YouTube channel where she shares her techniques and tutorials.