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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...

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Works well on the Y logo:

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

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.

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.

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.

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