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.
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.
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/
If anyone has an feature suggestions or notices any bugs, feel free to submit them to https://github.com/carsonified/brickify/issues. For bonus points, fix the problem up and send us a pull request!
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).
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.
It looks like LEGO's TOS is pretty restrictive if you come in through official channels. They're going to want to moderate your kit and make sure you're not doing anything commercial:
"You can make a LEGO Mosaic using your own photographs! Use a digital camera or a scanner to make your photograph into a .jpg or a .gif image file on your computer."
"click here to order your unique Mosaic kit with LEGO tiles and instructions customized just for you!"
edit: Looks like you can't buy them anymore, but they used to offer it, with easy image upload -> purchase the mosaic set. I remember seeing it launched a few years back. Probably didn't sell enough to make it worth it.
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.
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Very nice work otherwise!
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.
http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fycombinator.com...
Now brickify: http://brickify.com/#/view/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedi...
Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).
http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/
This has some info on the process http://www.ldraw.org/Category9-All.html
Alternatively figure out how the competition do it... (http://www.brixels.net http://www.mosaicsmaker.com etc)
http://designbyme.lego.com/en-us/Terms/default.aspx?id=13154...
I bet Brickmania would take this on.
"You can make a LEGO Mosaic using your own photographs! Use a digital camera or a scanner to make your photograph into a .jpg or a .gif image file on your computer."
"click here to order your unique Mosaic kit with LEGO tiles and instructions customized just for you!"
edit: Looks like you can't buy them anymore, but they used to offer it, with easy image upload -> purchase the mosaic set. I remember seeing it launched a few years back. Probably didn't sell enough to make it worth it.
Other sites that do them to order:
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