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Re: Mona Lisa
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lugnet.build.mosaic
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Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:00:05 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mosaic, Jason Spears wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Arthur Gugick wrote:
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The Mona Lisa uses a pointillist style that I first saw in Roy Cook’s Aayla
Secura Pointillist Mosaic winner of best mosaic at Brickfest 2006. My method
differs slightly from Roy’s. Roy attached his 1x1 round plates to Technic
bricks. I attached my 1x1 round plates directly to a plate beneath. Roy’s
method allows more of the underneath color to “bleed” through than my
method. My method allows the color to “bleed” more symmetrically.
The pointillist style allowed me to make my mosaic nearly the same size as
the actual picture (21 inches by 30 inches)
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Very impressive. I hadn’t seen this technique before, it rocks. Did you use a
computer program to help you decide which color to use for the 1x1 rounds and
the plate beneath or...?
Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG
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Jason,
Using MS Paint, I made and saved about 140 drawings of circles of various colors
atop squares of various colors. I omitted combinations where the pieces were
rare (1 x 1 orange plates, 1 x 1 round green plates, etc. ) After I saved all
the photos I let the software do most of the work. The software has a variety of
options, so with some experimentation I found the combination of features that
worked best for the Mona Lisa.
The next mosaic I’m working on (Picasso’s Don Quiote) will have three layers:
1x1 round plates atop a 2x2 round plate atop four 1x1 plates. Adding the extra
layer adds too many possiblities to do by hand, so eventually I’ll write a
simple program that draws and saves all the pictures for me. But for now, since
the Picasso painting is only in black and white, I’ll only have to enter 16x16
=256 differents pictures into a database
Arthur
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| (...) Very impressive. I hadn't seen this technique before, it rocks. Did you use a computer program to help you decide which color to use for the 1x1 rounds and the plate beneath or...? Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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