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Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

42 points by commondream 16y ago

ryancarson 16y ago
SOOOOOO much fun to build this :)
WesleyJohnson 16y ago
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%2Fimages%2Fbrickify.png http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrickify.com%2F...
- ryancarson 16y ago
  You can edit it, once the algorithm brickifies it :)
  - dinedal 16y ago
    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!
    - commondream 16y ago
      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.
  - timrobinson 16y ago
    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.
    - jimrhoskins 16y ago
      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.
- xd 16y ago
  Works well on the Y logo: http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fycombinator.com%2Fimages%2Fy18.gif&updates=e30%3D http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fycombinator.com...
hootmon 16y ago
This is by far the kuu-elle-est thing I have seen on the web this year.
Jencha 16y ago
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_Mouse.svg/344px-Mickey_Mouse.svg.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Mickey_M... Now brickify: http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2F7%2F7f%2FMickey_Mouse.svg%2F344px-Mickey_Mouse.svg.png http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedi...
- commondream 16y ago
  Thanks for letting us know - I posted an issue in GitHub (https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues/issue/2 https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues/issue/2) and I'll try to take a stab at fixing it sometime in the near future.
chopsueyar 16y ago
That is some excellent marketing. Awesome job, guys and gal.
- brown9-2 16y ago
  Seriously I love the mindset of a company that makes a very well-produced video, including score and talking heads, of a side project like this: http://brickify.com/#/about/ http://brickify.com/#/about/
commondream 16y ago
If anyone has an feature suggestions or notices any bugs, feel free to submit them to https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues. For bonus points, fix the problem up and send us a pull request!
arethuza 16y ago
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).
- commondream 16y ago
  We couldn't figure out how to make it happen, but I agree, that would be awesome!
  - arethuza 16y ago
    I'm tempted to try and build a robot (using Lego, obviously) that will count out the necessary bricks into a box :-)
- ryancarson 16y ago
  We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.
  - kn0thing 16y ago
    I'm sending this along to our friends at LEGO (the ones who brought our Hack Club NY to life). Hopefully I can get you in touch with someone who can close to loop. Very nifty app nonetheless. http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/ http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/
    - ryancarson 16y ago
      Thanks! It'd be great to get LEGO to implement it.
  - axod 16y ago
    All you would need to do is create a ldd file that people can then import into LEGO digital designer. Then they just click 'buy'. This has some info on the process http://www.ldraw.org/Category9-All.html http://www.ldraw.org/Category9-All.html Alternatively figure out how the competition do it... (http://www.brixels.net http://www.brixels.net http://www.mosaicsmaker.com http://www.mosaicsmaker.com etc)
ScottWhigham 16y ago
Very cool - I would suggest you offer some examples. I don't really have a pic in mind but I'd like to check it out. Would be cool to see some of the things others have used.
- commondream 16y ago
  I like this one: http://bit.ly/hV6fY9 http://bit.ly/hV6fY9
neovive 16y ago
Is anyone else getting an application error? -- No such file or directory - ./views/app.haml I was able to load the Y logo from the comments below and now going back to the main page returns the error in Firefox 3.6
- commondream 16y ago
  We just rolled out a fix. Sorry about that.

42 points by commondream 16y ago

SOOOOOO much fun to build this :)

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

ryancarson 16y ago
You can edit it, once the algorithm brickifies it :)
- dinedal 16y ago
  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!
  - commondream 16y ago
    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.
- timrobinson 16y ago
  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.
  - jimrhoskins 16y ago
    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.
xd 16y ago
Works well on the Y logo: http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fycombinator.com%2Fimages%2Fy18.gif&updates=e30%3D http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fycombinator.com...

hootmon 16y ago

This is by far the kuu-elle-est thing I have seen on the web this year.

Jencha 16y ago

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_Mouse.svg/344px-Mickey_Mouse.svg.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Mickey_M... Now brickify: http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2F7%2F7f%2FMickey_Mouse.svg%2F344px-Mickey_Mouse.svg.png http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedi...

commondream 16y ago
Thanks for letting us know - I posted an issue in GitHub (https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues/issue/2 https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues/issue/2) and I'll try to take a stab at fixing it sometime in the near future.

chopsueyar 16y ago

That is some excellent marketing. Awesome job, guys and gal.

brown9-2 16y ago
Seriously I love the mindset of a company that makes a very well-produced video, including score and talking heads, of a side project like this: http://brickify.com/#/about/ http://brickify.com/#/about/

commondream 16y ago

If anyone has an feature suggestions or notices any bugs, feel free to submit them to https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues. For bonus points, fix the problem up and send us a pull request!

arethuza 16y ago

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).

commondream 16y ago
We couldn't figure out how to make it happen, but I agree, that would be awesome!
- arethuza 16y ago
  I'm tempted to try and build a robot (using Lego, obviously) that will count out the necessary bricks into a box :-)
ryancarson 16y ago
We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.
- kn0thing 16y ago
  I'm sending this along to our friends at LEGO (the ones who brought our Hack Club NY to life). Hopefully I can get you in touch with someone who can close to loop. Very nifty app nonetheless. http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/ http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/
  - ryancarson 16y ago
    Thanks! It'd be great to get LEGO to implement it.
- axod 16y ago
  All you would need to do is create a ldd file that people can then import into LEGO digital designer. Then they just click 'buy'. This has some info on the process http://www.ldraw.org/Category9-All.html http://www.ldraw.org/Category9-All.html Alternatively figure out how the competition do it... (http://www.brixels.net http://www.brixels.net http://www.mosaicsmaker.com http://www.mosaicsmaker.com etc)

ScottWhigham 16y ago

Very cool - I would suggest you offer some examples. I don't really have a pic in mind but I'd like to check it out. Would be cool to see some of the things others have used.

commondream 16y ago
I like this one: http://bit.ly/hV6fY9 http://bit.ly/hV6fY9

neovive 16y ago

Is anyone else getting an application error? -- No such file or directory - ./views/app.haml I was able to load the Y logo from the comments below and now going back to the main page returns the error in Firefox 3.6

commondream 16y ago
We just rolled out a fix. Sorry about that.