Starry Night Lego Mosaic
Ya gotta zoom in . . . . and read on.
This is a “virtual” Lego mosaic created in “Andrea Mosaic”. Created as a 96” x 76” (300 ppi) mosaic image (more than 2.5x the size of Vincent’s masterpiece) using a library of 16 images of 1x1 Lego bricks in the 16 available colors (black, brick orange, brick yellow, bright blue, bright red violet, bright red, bright yellow, bright yellow-green, dark green, dark steel grey, light purple, medium blue, medium lavender, medium steel grey, red-brown, and white). This image could be used as a "map" to create a full-size mosaic 96”x76”. The full-size mosaic thus created would require about 74,050 1x1 Lego bricks.
I tried unsuccessfully to convince the art teacher at my son's middle school some years ago to undertake the creation of a large-scale Lego mosaic such as this as a school-wide art project, offering my help to fundraise for the bricks and execute the project with kids. Seems to me a school-wide project like this captures student involvement on many fronts: 1) art (of course), 2) history - van gogh or other artist, 3) computers - creating the digital mosaic "map", 4) mathematics - pixels x pixels, lego dimensions translate into full size artwork, 5) shop class - assembly (for the long-term), how to mount the final work and secure it for display (cafeteria?).
I have uploaded this image (the "map") as a public domain image if anyone should wish to chase that idea down.
Starry Night Lego Mosaic
Ya gotta zoom in . . . . and read on.
This is a “virtual” Lego mosaic created in “Andrea Mosaic”. Created as a 96” x 76” (300 ppi) mosaic image (more than 2.5x the size of Vincent’s masterpiece) using a library of 16 images of 1x1 Lego bricks in the 16 available colors (black, brick orange, brick yellow, bright blue, bright red violet, bright red, bright yellow, bright yellow-green, dark green, dark steel grey, light purple, medium blue, medium lavender, medium steel grey, red-brown, and white). This image could be used as a "map" to create a full-size mosaic 96”x76”. The full-size mosaic thus created would require about 74,050 1x1 Lego bricks.
I tried unsuccessfully to convince the art teacher at my son's middle school some years ago to undertake the creation of a large-scale Lego mosaic such as this as a school-wide art project, offering my help to fundraise for the bricks and execute the project with kids. Seems to me a school-wide project like this captures student involvement on many fronts: 1) art (of course), 2) history - van gogh or other artist, 3) computers - creating the digital mosaic "map", 4) mathematics - pixels x pixels, lego dimensions translate into full size artwork, 5) shop class - assembly (for the long-term), how to mount the final work and secure it for display (cafeteria?).
I have uploaded this image (the "map") as a public domain image if anyone should wish to chase that idea down.