How Dominoes Are Constructed and Played
Domino is an Italian food company specializing in pizza. It is a publicly traded company with over 8,000 stores worldwide and more than 33,000 employees. Domino’s strategy is ‘think global, act local’. This means the company seeks to understand what consumers want and how best to meet those needs in each of its markets.
Domino’s core values include championing its customers. This value is reflected in its internal communications and culture. Domino’s employees are encouraged to listen to customers and address their concerns directly with the company’s leadership. This has led to Domino’s receiving many top workplace recognition awards from publications like the Detroit Free Press.
A domino is a flat, thumbsized rectangular block with one or more blank faces or bearing from one to six pips (or dots): 28 such tiles form a complete set. The term also refers to the various games played with such tiles, generally by matching the ends of two or more dominoes and laying them down in lines or angular patterns.
While many domino players focus on scoring games such as bergen and muggins, blocking games are equally popular. They involve emptying a player’s hand while blocking opponents’ play, and were once common in some areas as a way of circumventing religious proscriptions on playing cards. Dominoes can even be used to teach kids number recognition and math skills.
In both constructions and games, timing is key to success. If a domino is placed too early, it will stop a chain reaction; too late, and the chain will continue past its intended endpoints. The same principle holds for stories: the hero’s progress must be paced well, or readers will lose interest.
Hevesh has a meticulous process for creating her mind-blowing domino setups. She begins by considering the theme or purpose of the installation, then brainstorms images and words she might use to illustrate it. Once she has a list of potential elements, she starts to experiment with them in her studio.
When she tests a domino setup, she considers how the pieces will interact, including the force of gravity on each. Then she builds an accurate model using a computer program that calculates the forces involved and how the dominoes will fall. This allows her to determine the optimal layout of the dominoes before constructing the real thing.
Centralized storage and code execution enables scaling: your models can be run on any platform, distributed across multiple machines, or scheduled to run automatically — at the push of a button. Domino’s robust centralized server also supports a clean interface that makes it easy for internal stakeholders to run their own versions of your models with just the parameters they need. And it provides governance capabilities such as reproducibility, a system of record, role-based access controls, and more.
