 | Pittsburgh Pirates logo in LEGO mosaic |
I can’t take all the credit for the work involved in this one. There are 9 32 x 32 stud plates (which makes this 30 inches by 30 inches!) that I divvied up to the 9 kids in my class this year. I used software to break a standard image down to 96 x 96 pixels. Each pixel then corresponds to 1 lego stud, of which there are 9,216. I then took an output of colors in each of the 96 rows and imported them into Excel, where I could manipulate cell sizes to match up to 32 x 32 cells per sheet. Each student just had a print off to work from and mark which studs they filled. The print outs were just black and white, so they had no idea what they were making. I really liked the concept of using excel as instructions to make large scale mosaics, so I’ll definitely keep that in my bag of tricks for future works.
There are about 5,000 pieces in the mosaic. The kids had no idea what they were building collectively until the center plate was done and put next to 2 other finished plates. I did end up having to throw in a bit of time since 2 kids missed class and I wanted to make sure they would be able to finish it in the last class. Total labor hours is somewhere in the 20+ hour range.
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