Intelligent Building System for 3D Construction of Complex Brick Models

Brick elements are widely used for everything from designing toys to architectural designs. This article proposes an intelligent method to construct complex 3D brick models automatically. The proposed method is designed based on a set of core algorithms to generate a brick layout in accordance with a given 3D voxel model. In the system, each 3D model is sliced into tiers of flat vector polygons at first. Then, the vector polygons are converted to raster data for each tier. The bricks are built in a single tier until all tiers are completed. The proposed model is validated using two case studies: one is a series of solid sculpture models and the other is a building model. The results show that the proposed intelligent building system successfully builds visual models from brick assembly models. The proposed system can help engineers build large block models to improve the efficiency of constructing complex 3D building models.