Irises
96 × 73 studs (77 × 58 cm) · 7 008 studs of color · parts ≈ €465
About this build
Irises rebuilt in bricks measures 96 × 73 studs — 77 × 58 cm once it is on the wall — and takes 6 217 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 37 of the LEGO® colours we can actually buy. Sand Green does the most work at 11% of the surface — 707 plates on its own, followed by Dark Bluish Gray (11%), Dark Blue (11%). 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 €465 at current second-hand prices, spread across 37 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: Vincent van Gogh — 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
- 6 217
- Colours
- 37
- Finished size
- 77 × 58 cm
- Main colours
- Sand Green (11%), Dark Bluish Gray (11%), Dark Blue (11%)
Image: Vincent van Gogh — PD-old