Brickfair Mosaic Project, April
In case you haven't heard, Nukaya and I have this cool idea about having a community-built LEGO mosaic coordinated in time for BrickFair. Basically, each volunteer would be tasked with building a 32x32 segment on a baseplate with the studs facing out. (More details here for the general info.)
But here's the problem: We both can't figure out the PicToBrick LEGO mosaic program. We've started working with it, as in we can load images, crop them, and try to mess around with the colors, but the mosaic images do not turn out with just five/six/seven colors we want. Apparently if it will work properly it will look like a mosaic, with limited colors, and then can even list out how many of each color is needed! That would be amazing, so if anyone can get it to work properly (the various settings and whatnot), then please, get in contact with us and we hope you can help to see this plan through. (Don't worry about the exact picture just yet. That'll come after it works. If it works.)
We'll want to finalize a picture(s) soon, otherwise it will be too late to do this. We want to provide June and July at least for buying pieces and sending the square to me.
Edit: I think the biggest problem might be the fact that we want so few colors on such a detailed image. For example, if we were going to use a red Rahkshi head, it would come out as a solid red blog because it would not detail it without dark red and shading instead of adding in some black and/or dark grey or something. If you have any suggestions please post them. Arpy suggested MNOG images, for the less detail. Hmm...
-CF
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