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Last updated 6 November 2026

Credits.

Thank you to the artists, researchers and open-source developers whose work has inspired and supported Nooks.

Pictures our demo sets were built from

Wall art: film posters and album covers

The Wall art demos are our own brick interpretations of well-known film posters and album covers, drawn stud by stud from small reduced-size copies and shown free in the workbench as examples of the method. The artwork, titles and names belong to their respective owners (studios, artists, labels and designers). Nooks is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them, and these demos are not their products. Our main product is built from your own pictures.

Wall art

Beside our poster and album-cover demos, the home page shows the artwork each one was built from. The artwork belongs to its rights holders; Nooks is not affiliated with them.

Parts data

Part names, the colours each part is made in and the element numbers in our parts lists come from Rebrickable’s downloads. Part shapes come from the LDraw Parts Library, CC BY 4.0.

The Brain Flakes disc in the experimental Brain Flakes mode is “Brain Flakes (Standard & Custom)” by milkman1974, CC BY, via Thingiverse. It is a community model, not the manufacturer’s.

Projects that inspire us

We are grateful to the people building tools and research for brick-built design:

Brickscope MIT licence and copyright notice
Brickscope local scan code
https://github.com/NazarLysyi/brickscope

MIT License

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Software

The 3D view is drawn with three.js (MIT licence), with three-mesh-bvh and three-gpu-pathtracer (both MIT) for its finest renders. Parts fall and pile up with the Rapier physics engine by Dimforge (Apache 2.0). We serve our own copies, each with its licence.

Parts of our instruction compiler are a rewritten port of bricky by Maxence Faldor (Apache-2.0); the ported files were changed for Nooks.

School and university addresses are recognised with the university-domains-list by Hipo (MIT licence).

Kits rebuilt from bricky

Maxence Faldor made seven of our demo sets with bricky, his open-source compiler for brick models (Apache-2.0). We compiled each published build script with bricky and rebuilt the model, part for part, in the Nooks format: Japanese Garden, Street Corner, Pirate Ship, Lighthouse Island, Steam Train, The Great Wave and Colosseum. They are credited to him through a mock designer profile (/u/maxencefaldor).

BrickBench builds

One hundred set prompts and one hundred model prompts, each built by GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5, come from the public BrickBench gallery. We credit both to invented Brick Bench Team profiles (/u/astra and /u/opus55).