Rice Art?

So, in Japan farmers have used different colour rice plants (as seen below) to create land art...


Rice plants are carefully planted in a set pattern, and as summer progresses, so the plants grow, slowly revealing an incredible creation... Take a look:









These are viewable from a platform erected for the locals to see their creations.

The one above depicts Great Wave (of Kanagawa) by Katsushika Hokusai



Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees.
The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces.
In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.
But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.

In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.