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Duplogrifier

I’ve been wondering for a while if I could represent a picture with Duplo pixels in a way that would do it justice.

Introducing the Duplogrifier!

Duplogrifier will take any JPEG and turn it into an arrangement of 2×2 Duplo bricks. Now truth be told, the answer to my original question is “no”. There are not enough colors available and it would take a obscene amount of bricks to build something visually acceptable. However it leads to some fairly cool results.

2015-04-15: added 6 more “pixel” colors.

You can play with it here:

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Cool Duplo Project #27 – Trebuchet

We are dangerously entering the realm of projectiles.

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I MacGyver’d a sling with rubber bands & a rubber balloon.

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I’m helping the counterweight a bit since Duplos don’t have much mass; there is definitely room for improvement in other regards, the sling release specifically. currently it takes a few trials to get a good trajectory.

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Medieval warfare? More like Medieval fun times.