Bricklaying Orders — Spatial Trace Comparison

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Main view

Laying order Levels Bricks/course

boot: pending smoke: pending trace checks: pending render: pending

placement order brick positions first brick ➜sampled directions

Checks cover trace length, placement order and layout—not structural safety or construction feasibility.

Small multiples

Four order/layout patterns, shown together. Each uses the same number of courses and bricks.

Clockwise↻ every course

Alternating↻ then ↺

Staggeredhalf-brick shift

Anticlockwise↺ every course

What you’re seeing

The inner ring is the first course; later courses are drawn farther out so you can compare them. This is a radial diagram, not a widening wall. Lines connect consecutive placements, not the builder’s travel route. The green dot marks the first brick; amber arrows show the direction on sampled courses.

Clockwise, anticlockwise and alternating use one fixed brick layout. Staggered also shifts every second course by half a brick, so it compares a different layout—not merely another order on identical positions.

This is a spatial-order comparison, not a complete project-state model. It does not model curing, shared resources, structural support, time or reachable completion schedules. Settings and selections are temporary; reloading restores the defaults. No project record or file is saved.