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Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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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…

Yeah, in the isometric view it all looks like 1x1 sticks, but the schematic will fill with longer bricks. You can stagger them yourself when you build, but we are working on the algorithm to make it more structurally sound.

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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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...

Thanks for letting us know - I posted an issue in GitHub (https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues/issue/2) and I'll try to take a stab at fixing it sometime in the near future.

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan.

Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan. Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

We couldn't figure out how to make it happen, but I agree, that would be awesome!

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan. Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.
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