Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #3

I tried to brickify the brickify logo without much success, but I think it's a pretty slick idea none the less. http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrickify.com%2F...

You can edit it, once the algorithm brickifies it :)

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by dinedal » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 2:37 PM UTC

ryancarson wrote: post #5

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #3

I tried to brickify the brickify logo without much success, but I think it's a pretty slick idea none the less. http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrickify.com%2F...

You can edit it, once the algorithm brickifies it :)

Feature Request / Idea: Allow me to swap the color on all on the bricks of one color as well as edit each brick.

Very nice work otherwise!

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by Jencha » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 2:44 PM UTC

The only thing is when you have black colors, it blends with the background. Take for example mickey: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Mickey_M...

Now brickify: http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedi...

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by xd » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #3

I tried to brickify the brickify logo without much success, but I think it's a pretty slick idea none the less. http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrickify.com%2F...

Works well on the Y logo:

http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fycombinator.com...

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by timrobinson » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 2:52 PM UTC

ryancarson wrote: post #5

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #3

I tried to brickify the brickify logo without much success, but I think it's a pretty slick idea none the less. http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrickify.com%2F...

You can edit it, once the algorithm brickifies it :)

Big blocks of colour produce tall stacks of 1x10 bricks, which look like they could fall over.

Shouldn't the algorithm overlap these bricks where possible?

Edit: Presumably the algorithm fills a run of pixels by working from left to right, repeatedly fitting the largest brick it can, then filling in the end with a small brick. Picking different lengths for the bricks within a run will produce the same image but with different overlaps. One technique would be to try every combination of lengths that fit into a run of pixels and maximise the overlaps between these bricks and the rows above and below.

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by commondream » Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 2:59 PM UTC

dinedal wrote: post #6

ryancarson wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can edit it, once the algorithm brickifies it :)

Feature Request / Idea: Allow me to swap the color on all on the bricks of one color as well as edit each brick. Very nice work otherwise!

Thanks for the feature suggestion. I'll post it in GitHub and hopefully we can take a stab at it sometime here in the near future.