So why not build a software that encourages people to buy bricks. Why are they doing this? Well Bricklink is a great place to get bricks and you can find about all of the bricks ever made out there.

Well Bricklink just recently released their version of brick building mosaic software called Mosaick (and since I'm promoting them, here is a promotion for the Bricks for Bricks Bricklink Store). From my limited experience, most of them need specific types of pictures and have a hard time turning pictures with details or certain color schemes into LEGO brick mosaics. If you do a search for 'LEGO Mosaic Software' there are a few sites that will let you submit a picture, tweak it, and then will spit out instructions and a piece count. I fully admit that I am not artistic enough to build one on my own, but I have looked into some of the free software options online.

If you haven't seen any of them, you can see a few of the record holding mosaic creations at this site. If you've looked around at the LEGO fan sites and some of the photo streams, you're bound to have seen some mosaic MOCs.

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