2010-2012

After two years and 47,096 beads, my girlfriend and I finished this tribute to my favorite game of all time.

In the comparison shot, you can see the plan. The left image is captured from the game and the right image is the result of converting all of the colors into the available palette of perler beads. The conversion and bead counting was done by a Python script written by my awesome programmer friend Cody Hollis-Perdue. I then acquired the ~52,000 necessary beads from a wholesaler through the internet.

It took around an hour of assembly per panel. 7 x 8 panels total, 29x29 beads per panel. A hand iron was used to meticulously melt the panels together. The final melt is by no means perfect, the plastic has a tendency to shrink and swell based on the color. Melting temperature varied by color of bead. The final mounted product measures 44" x 39".

Special thanks to my girlfriend Nicole for helping me assemble all of the panels, probably close to 170 hours between the two of us. Thanks to Cody for writing me scripts that convert and count bead colors. Thanks to Scott for his expertise and physical labor in helping to mount the final melted panels.

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Software utilized during this project:

- Adobe Photoshop

- Python

Aspects of myself lost during this project:

- Finger Cartilage

- Sanity