The best roundness achieved by taking advantage of the tolerance between juxtaposed bricks. (banana for reference)
I felt like a ribosome working my way up a nucleotide chain
Pictured bellow: said tolerance actively tolerating
As anticipated it can’t support its own weight
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: