rubik’s cube pixel art: the ultimate geek art form
November 7th, 2009 comments (8) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
What do you get when you’ve got a crapload of Rubik’s cubes lying around the house, and some serious artistic talent? You make some major pixel art, that’s what.
These Rubik’s pixel portraits by Irish artist John Quigley are truly mind-boggling. Not only did he have to map out the precise pixel positions for each cube in these creations, he had to rotate the sides of each cube into exactly the correct color scheme to make it all work. To put it all in perspective, the Space Invaders scene above required a whopping 1,330 cubes.
And while Sonic only took 784 cubes to get his spiky blue hairdo, he’s still cool in my book. Not all of John’s creations require hundreds or even thousands of cubes either. Check out this Pac-Man scene, created from just 102 cubes – it still gets the point across just fine.
And Mario is no less fun, even though he only consumed 24 Rubik’s Cubes.
For obvious reasons, I’m drawn to his retro video game pixel creations, but I couldn’t leave you guys without showing you John’s unbelievable 2,622 cube portrait of Barack Obama.
Be sure to check out all of John’s amazing Rubik’s Cube creations over at the Neo-literal Cubist’s flickr page. He can also solve a Rubik’s Cube in 44 seconds.
filed under: design geek art + craft video games
tags: amazingblockscolorflickrpixel artpop artpuzzlerubiks cube
November 7th, 2009 comments (8): stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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It’s a real shame that there wasn’t any way to shoehorn seven more cubes into the Space Invaders one, really.
nice. 1337 would have been a very nice number indeed.
This “artist” is simply copying the French street artist, Space Invader.
http://www.space-invaders.com
Space Invader (the artist) has been using Rubik’s cubes to create pixel art for a long time now.
It’s pretty pathetic that this John Quigley guy even stole the space invaders / video game character theme for his pieces.
I see a lawsuit in the near future.
I never claimed that Quigley was the only one who ever did this. As a matter of fact, I’ve featured Space Invader on the site.
http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/03/space-invader-rubiks-cube-pac-man/
Didn’t Pablo Picasso say “Good artists borrow, Great artists steal”?
You both need to do a little research. Space Invader is far from “an original.” Just go read the Wiki on Rubiks cube Art there were people doing the basics of this stuff back in the 80’s and 90’s…Space invader is a FOLLOWER just like everybody else. Far better stuff being done now by collaboratives anyway.., go look at http://www.cubepopart.parallaxltd.com/
I can do this as well… its called taking the stickers off and putting them back on in the set of pixels you need for the image
@Hazard78..LOL, Yeah moving the stickers works too.
I can’t imagine moving the stickers would be much faster. I most definitely would not want to un-stick and re-stick 23,598 (2622*9) stickers.