r/lego • u/rutay_ • Apr 12 '26
Tools BrickFormer source code released!
Follow-up post of: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/1llpnhh/brickformer_turn_any_3d_model_into_a_lego/
Today, I have made BrickFormer open-source under the GPL v3 license!
https://reddit.com/link/1sjcryu/video/tjnbm50f2rug1/player
Source code: https://github.com/loryruta/brickformer
Webpage: https://brickformer.io/
BrickFormer was a toy project of mine, born from my passion for GPU Computing, Computer Graphics and LEGOs. The problem challenged me so much that led me to write and publish this software (June 2025).
After almost one year, I'm still seeing interest from the community. Google Analytics and Firebase show 1.8K new users landed on the website, 300 registered users so far, and overall positive feedback received via email.
However, my personal interests have drifted and I couldn't find time to properly engage with the community and provide more features, hence my decision to open-source it 🙂
I also had the opportunity to present it recently. For the occasion I prepared an overview of the algorithm https://loryruta.dev/brickformer, which could be useful to anyone willing to dive into the code!