Generating brick walls

2025-01-05

I’ve spent a lot of the last couple of years thinking about brick walls, thanks to having been working at Monumental that whole time.

I thought it would be fun to make a little toy that lets you build your own (virtual) brick wall at home.

Screenshot of a Flemish bond brick wall

Bricks can be laid in many different patterns, known as ‘bonds’. At first it looks like all these bonds can be expressed in a fairly simple way, but it’s surprisingly fiddly to make things line up nicely and fill left over space in a way that complies with the bond pattern.

Anyway, I’ve ignored all of that and just tried to express bonds in the easiest way possible.

Try it out!

Screenshot of a Flemish diagonal bond wall

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