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A portrait of my wife, Amy, done in lego. It is 48 by 64 lego dots in dimension.
Background and Inspiration
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For several years my wife, Amy, was executive director of the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, Michigan. During 2016 (January 30 through April 22) the museum exhibited a collection of works by lego artist Nathan Sawaya. Before that exhibit opened, I thought it would be fun to create a portrait of Amy out of lego. This portrait is the result.
I used a picture of Amy I took at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. as the basis of this work. First, I reduced the image to 48 by 64 pixels, then converted the color image to grayscale. A diffusion dithering algorithm was used to reduce the number of gray levels to 4, corresponding to the number of available shades of gray in the lego palette.
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