Great Wave
96 × 66 studs (77 × 53 cm) · 6 336 studs of color · parts ≈ €316
About this build
Great Wave rebuilt in bricks measures 96 × 66 studs — 77 × 53 cm once it is on the wall — and takes 3 261 plates. Each stud is one pixel of the original, and nothing is painted or printed: the colour you see is the colour of the plate underneath it.
The engine matched the artwork to 19 of the LEGO® colours we can actually buy. Dark Blue does the most work at 15% of the surface — 478 plates on its own, followed by Dark Bluish Gray (11%), Light Gray (10%). That distribution is the fingerprint of this particular image: a portrait leans on skin tones, a night sky spends almost everything on two or three darks.
Buying the plates for this one costs roughly €316 at current second-hand prices, spread across 19 colours. That is the part most people do not expect, and it is why the instructions and the sourcing list are what we sell: the bricks you buy where they are cheapest, or take from what you already own.
Source image: Hokusai — PD-old. This piece is here to show what the generator does with a hard image. Upload your own photo and you get the same treatment — the same palette, the same bag-by-bag instructions, the same list of what to buy.
- Plates
- 3 261
- Colours
- 19
- Finished size
- 77 × 53 cm
- Main colours
- Dark Blue (15%), Dark Bluish Gray (11%), Light Gray (10%)
Image: Hokusai — PD-old
