A while back I wrote a script with the blender API to turn the Lucy model from the Stanford scanning repository (http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/) into legos using lego plates instead of full size bricks. This gave me 3 times the detail from full height bricks. Did a generation 4 feet tall and made a render. Also did a 2 feet tall version that I actually built.
eesaari1 Such a simple and elegant approach!
That's pretty cool. How does your script decide what size block goes where? Is it some variation of marching cubes?