When I first tried this tool, I thought it was a web tool to give your photo or logo a funky style. After staring at the new version of my submitted image URL, I thought, “It looks like a cross-stitch pattern.”
Appropriately three seconds later I felt like a complete “e-tard”.
What I was staring at, was my image “Brickified” into LEGO form!
At this point, I decided it was time for another cup of coffee. As I sipped my new cup of joe, I placed the URL of the 8BIT logo (see blog post thumb image) and gave Brickify another go.
This was the output image, or what I thought to look be some sort of cross-stitch pattern:
If you look closer, you can see that this is indeed a 3D rendering of the 8BIT logo in pure LEGO beauty:
See the individual blocks? This is one of the views you can access, so when you begin to build your LEGO logo, you have the brick by brick visual blueprint.
It also gives you a complete breakdown of every brick you will need to put it together:
The full list is much longer, and you can see that the 8BIT logo is 125-bricks by 104-bricks. I guess it is a natural progression between pixels and LEGOS.
Brickify isn’t just a cool tool to plug in an image, but a fully functional tool that can turn any image into fully usable LEGO building plans.
Here’s a little Who and Why of Brickify:
Brickify is an app created by Carsonified. It all started during a team building week at our new Orlando, Florida office. We took a fun trip to the local LEGO store, and Jim thought it might be fun to build the Carsonified logo in Lego bricks.
We searched the web, but we couldn’t find any web apps that transformed images into LEGO plans, so we decided to build one ourselves. After just two days of design and development, Brickify was the result.
http://vimeo.com/19018711
This is the key to success:
If you can’t find it, build it.
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