Tower Babel
96 × 70 studs (77 × 56 cm) · 6 720 studs of color · parts ≈ €423
About this build
Tower Babel rebuilt in bricks measures 96 × 70 studs — 77 × 56 cm once it is on the wall — and takes 5 119 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 30 of the LEGO® colours we can actually buy. Dark Brown does the most work at 14% of the surface — 738 plates on its own, followed by Tan (11%), Medium Brown (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 €423 at current second-hand prices, spread across 30 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: Pieter Bruegel — 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
- 5 119
- Colours
- 30
- Finished size
- 77 × 56 cm
- Main colours
- Dark Brown (14%), Tan (11%), Medium Brown (10%)
Image: Pieter Bruegel — PD-old
