We’ve had some discussion on this before. Especially if you want to use this method, the beacon is required anyways. It’s possible that if someone really wanted to map then mapping a column or a cube might be worth it.
Mapping an entire surface layer if you managed to find the overlap could also be useful, in either case once you have the larger pattern it might be possible to create farming spots for a large number of colors in a relatively few plots, or at least plot columns.
By any means mapping this pattern into useful (3x3) spots of single colors would be a ton of work. A lot of people contributing randomly might get it done in a shorter time but someone would have to collate.
EDIT: Oh heck 
I thought this was in the recent thread where @Ovis reposted this with video. This is the thread with the older discussion 
The newer thread for reference:
WTH Here’s also a necro snowman
