There’s trouble brewing on r/Minecraft.Builder Thorlar Thorlarian claims to have broken the record for the biggest Minecraft pixel art, composing an incredibly detailed image with 1,128,960 meticulously-laid blocks. In Thorlarian’s final livestream of his project (above), he says the mural took him 23 weeks to make, starting on January 5th.While the resulting image is virtually flawless, it's raised a spirited debate over the veracity of Thorlarian's "hand-made" claims. Some Redditors think the art is too perfect to have been done by hand—that there, logically, would have had to be an algorithm involved (a la Spritecraft) in order for Thorlarian to have so precisely match his mural colors to the original image. Whether or not Thorlarian’s work, which he livestreamed to allegedly fundraise for charity, is honest or not, remains unclear, but the video above portrays nothing less than a modern-day Seurat with his blockcraft precision.
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