Software to Construct Everything with Legos

(EPFL, July 01, 2013)

If you remain a big kid at heart or, more practically speaking, if you enjoy architectural challenges, an algorithm developed at EPFL should enable all your artistic fantasies through the famous small Lego pieces.The software developed by Romain Testuz in his Masters semester thesis automatically transforms a three-dimensional image into bricks and simplifies the challenge of construction by proposing a comprehensive plan of the parts to be used on each floor. With it, any shape is possible. “The first challenge was to find research that had been conducted on this subject and to understand what wasn’t working in pursuit of a better solution”, explains Romain. He then spent the next several months with pockets full of Legos to resolve these problems and confirm the new model.