Maybe you saw this ridiculous post, describing some fun, very manual, steps to make your maps look like they were assembled of 1×1 bricks on the wonderful vibrant Utopian plain that is a lego base plate.
Vanni Zhang rightly saw a better way than all that manual tinkering, and assembled a robot to do the lego construction for us. It’s named the…
LEGO-IFIER
Now you can crank these things out to your heart’s content with the tap of a button.
Very cool! I like the idea of Lego cartography (I’m actually recreating an ArcGIS map of mine using Lego, as soon as I track down 4,793 bricks), but I wish these faux Lego maps used accurate Lego colors. I’m not sure how many unique colors Lego produces, but I think it is less than what these maps display.
That would be a cool feature. I’d have to get a lookup of all viable lego colors, and grab a library that matched a cell color to its nearest lego-hue. If that were the case you could then provide a brick list as a resource if someone (like you, with lots of energy) wanted to build a for-realz version.