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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tikzbricks/README.md b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tikzbricks/README.md
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+# TikZbricks
+
+A small LaTeX package to draw bricks with TikZ. The user can modify the colour, shape and  viewpoint.
+
+![example image of three bricks](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samcarter/TikZbricks/main/showcase.svg) 
+
+This project is licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later, see http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
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+The project repository, including a bug tracker, can be found at https://github.com/samcarter/TikZbricks/issues
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+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% Documentation for the tikzbricks package
+% A package to draw tikzbricks pieces with tikz
+% Maintained by samcarter
+%
+% Project repository and bug tracker:
+% https://github.com/samcarter/TikZbricks
+%
+% Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later
+% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
+%
+% Version 0.1
+% Aug 10, 2021  
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}
+
+% packages %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}	
+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}		
+\usepackage[english]{babel}
+\usepackage[bitstream-charter]{mathdesign}
+\usepackage{tikzbricks}
+\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
+\usepackage[paper=a4paper,margin=2.9cm]{geometry}
+\usepackage{url}
+\usepackage{xspace}
+\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage} 
+\usepackage[hang,flushmargin,bottom]{footmisc}
+\usepackage[colorlinks=true,breaklinks=true,urlcolor=duckblue,linkcolor=duckblue,citecolor=duckblue,filecolor=duckblue]{hyperref}
+
+% macros %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\newcommand{\CTAN}{\textsc{CTAN}\xspace}
+\newcommand{\TikZ}{Ti\emph{k}Z\xspace}
+\newcommand{\miktex}{MiK\TeX\xspace}
+\newcommand{\texlive}{\TeX{}Live\xspace}
+\newcommand{\tikzbrick}{Ti\emph{k}Zbrick\xspace}
+
+% customisation %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\definecolor{duckblue}{RGB}{0,70,140}
+\definecolor{marmotred}{RGB}{140,20,40}
+\addtokomafont{sectioning}{\color{gray}}
+\addtokomafont{date}{\normalsize}
+\addtokomafont{author}{\normalsize}
+\setlength{\footnotemargin}{0.7em}
+
+% from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/147848
+\def\beginlstdelim#1#2#3%
+{%
+    \def\endlstdelim{#2\egroup}%
+    \ttfamily#1\bgroup\color{#3}\aftergroup\endlstdelim%
+}
+
+\lstdefinestyle{tikzbricksstyle}{%
+	language={[latex]TeX},
+	tabsize=2,
+	breaklines,
+	basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,
+	commentstyle={\color{gray}\slshape}, 
+	columns=fullflexible,
+	texcsstyle=*\color{duckblue}\bfseries,
+	keywordstyle=\color{red!60!black}\bfseries,
+	morekeywords={tikzpicture,scope,wall},
+	moretexcs={path,node,draw,clip,includegraphics,color,brick,tdplotsetmaincoords,wallbrick,newrow},
+	delim ={[s][\ttfamily\color{green!50!black}]{$}{$}},
+	moredelim=[is][\footnotesize\ttfamily\color{orange!70!black}]{|}{|},
+	moredelim={[s][\color{gray}]{<}{>}},
+%	moredelim = **[is][\beginlstdelim{\{}{\}}{orange!70!black}]{\{}{\}},
+%	moredelim = **[is][\beginlstdelim{[}{]}{orange!70!black}]{[}{]},
+}
+
+\tcbset{%
+	colframe=gray,
+	arc=2mm,
+	fonttitle=\bfseries,
+	sidebyside,
+	listing options={style=tikzbricksstyle},
+	center lower,
+	righthand width=5.7cm,
+	bottom=0pt, 
+	top=0pt,
+	sidebyside gap=10pt
+}
+
+\lstset{style=tikzbricksstyle}
+
+% meta %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\title{The \tikzbrick{}s package}
+\subtitle{Drawing bricks with \TikZ}
+\author{%
+	\texorpdfstring{
+		\begin{tikzpicture}
+			 \brick[color=blue]{4}{2}
+		\end{tikzpicture}\\[0.8em]		
+		\texttt{samcarter}\\
+		\url{https://github.com/samcarter/TikZbricks}\\
+%		\url{https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzbricks}
+	}{samcarter}}
+\date{Version 0.1 -- \today}
+
+\begin{document}
+\maketitle
+
+\section{Introduction}
+\label{intro}
+
+The idea for the \tikzbrick{}s package was born at the \href{https://tug.org/tug2021/}{TUG'21 conference}, at which one of the interviewees had a very cool collection of brick models in the background. % todo: link to video once this is available
+
+The package allows to draw bricks with \TikZ. The user can modify their colour, shape and change the viewpoint. Internally the \texttt{tikz-3dplot} package is used for the 3D rendering. 
+
+%The package is included in both \texlive and \miktex and available from \CTAN (\url{https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzbricks}). 
+The development version of this package is located at \url{https://github.com/samcarter/TikZbricks}. If you have any problems, ideas or other feedback, please make constructive use of its bug tracker.
+
+Copyright \raisebox{0.2em}{\tiny\fontfamily{cmr}\selectfont\textcopyright} \texttt{samcarter}. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and\slash or modify this software under the terms of the LaTeX project public licence, version 1.3c or later \url{http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt}.
+
+\section{Basic usage}
+
+An individual \tikzbrick can be drawn with
+
+\begin{tcolorbox}[title={\tikzbrick}]
+\begin{lstlisting}
+\brick{4}{2}
+\end{lstlisting}
+\tcblower
+\begin{tikzpicture}
+	 \brick{4}{2}
+\end{tikzpicture}
+\end{tcolorbox}
+
+in which the first argument specifies the length of the block and the second argument its width. In addition to this basic block, the user can customise the block via optional arguments.
+
+\newpage
+
+The package comes with a couple of build in options. First the user can adjust the colour:
+\begin{tcblisting}{title={Colour}}
+\begin{tikzpicture}
+	 \brick[color=blue]{1}{3}
+\end{tikzpicture}
+\end{tcblisting}
+
+It is also possible to change the default height of 1.3 to a custom value:
+\begin{tcblisting}{title={Height}}
+\begin{tikzpicture}
+	 \brick[brickheight=0.3]{2}{1}
+\end{tikzpicture}
+\end{tcblisting}
+
+And on top of the studs, a custom text can be added:
+\begin{tcblisting}{title={Height}}
+\begin{tikzpicture}
+	 \brick[studtext={TikZ}]{2}{3}
+\end{tikzpicture}
+\end{tcblisting}
+
+To change the viewpoint, one can make use of the fact, that the \texttt{tikz-3dplot} package is used internally. By default, the \tikzbrick{}s package uses \lstinline|\tdplotsetmaincoords{70}{160}|, but this can be adjusted as desired:
+\begin{tcblisting}{title={Viewport}}
+\tdplotsetmaincoords{70}{110}
+\begin{tikzpicture}
+\brick{4}{2}
+\end{tikzpicture}
+\end{tcblisting}
+
+In addition to these \tikzbrick specific options, one can also use all normal Ti\emph{k}Z options:
+\begin{tcblisting}{title={Ti\emph{k}Z options}}
+\begin{tikzpicture}
+\brick[scale=1.5]{1}{1}
+\brick[xshift=3cm]{2}{2}
+\end{tikzpicture}
+\end{tcblisting}
+
+\section{Wall building}
+
+So what to do with the \tikzbrick{}s? Like with any other building blocks, they are made to build things. Using the \lstinline|wall| environment one can place \lstinline|\wallbrick| besides each other. 
+
+Due to the perspective and order of drawing, the wall is build from bottom to top and from right to left. To leave gaps or change into another layer, one can add to the \lstinline|brickx|, \lstinline|bricky| and \lstinline|brickz| counters. 
+
+Inside the \lstinline|wall| environment one can use \lstinline|\newrow| as a shortcut to go one row up and back to the start at the right hand side. 
+\begin{tcblisting}{title={Wall building}}
+\begin{wall}
+  \wallbrick[color=blue]{2}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=red]{1}{1}
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=orange]{1}{1}
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=cyan]{4}{1}
+\end{wall}
+\end{tcblisting}
+
+\section{Example}
+
+One example inspired by the documentation of the  \href{https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pxpic}{pxpic package}:
+
+%\begin{tcblisting}{title={Brick Duck}}
+\begin{center}
+\begin{wall}[scale=0.5]
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{3}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{6}{2}
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{2}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{8}{2}   
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{3}{2} 
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{4}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{3}{2}  
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{2}{2} 
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{4}{2}      
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{3}{2}  
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{8}{2} 
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{2}{2}  
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{2}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{11}{2} 
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{3}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{7}{2} 
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{2}{2} 
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{1}
+  \wallbrick[color=orange]{3}{2} 
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{3}{2} 
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{5}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{1}{2}   
+  \newrow
+  \wallbrick[color=orange]{3}{2} 
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{5}{2}   
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{2}
+  \wallbrick[color=orange]{1}{2} 
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{1}{2} 
+  \wallbrick[color=black]{1}{2} 
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{3}{2}   
+  \newrow   
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{2}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{6}{2} 
+  \newrow
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{3}
+  \wallbrick[color=yellow!80!orange]{4}{2}      
+\end{wall}
+\end{center}
+%\end{tcblisting}
+
+\end{document}
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tikzbricks/tikzbricks.sty b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tikzbricks/tikzbricks.sty
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..261f29780f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tikzbricks/tikzbricks.sty
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+ % !TeX root = ./test.tex
+\ProvidesPackage{tikzbricks}[2021/08/10 version v0.1 Drawing bricks with TikZ]
+
+\RequirePackage{tikz}
+\RequirePackage{tikz-3dplot}
+\tdplotsetmaincoords{70}{160}
+\newcounter{brickx}
+\newcounter{bricky}
+\newcounter{brickz}
+\setcounter{brickx}{0}
+\setcounter{bricky}{0}
+\setcounter{brickz}{0}
+
+\newcommand*{\brick}[3][]{%
+  \setcounter{brickx}{0}%
+  \setcounter{bricky}{0}%
+  \setcounter{brickz}{0}%
+  \begin{scope}%
+    \tikzset{/brick/.cd,#1}%
+    \brick@draw{#2}{#3}%
+  \end{scope}%
+}
+
+\newcommand*{\wallbrick}[3][]{%
+  \begin{scope}%
+    \tikzset{/brick/.cd,#1}%
+    \brick@draw{#2}{#3}%
+  \end{scope}%
+  \addtocounter{brickx}{#2}%
+}
+
+\newenvironment{wall}[1][]{%
+  \setcounter{brickx}{0}%
+  \setcounter{bricky}{0}%
+  \setcounter{brickz}{0}%
+  \newcommand{\newrow}{%
+    \setcounter{brickx}{0}%
+    \addtocounter{brickz}{1}%
+  }%
+  \begin{tikzpicture}[#1]
+}{%
+  \end{tikzpicture}%
+}
+
+\tikzset{
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  %
+  % Pass unknown keys on to tikz
+  %
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  /brick/.search also={/tikz,/pgf},
+  /brick/.cd,
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  %
+  % brick options
+  %
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  color/.code         = \def\brick@color{#1},
+  color               = red,
+  brickheight/.code   = \def\brick@height{#1},
+  brickheight         = 1.3,
+  studtext/.code      = \def\brick@text{#1},
+  studtext            = {},
+}
+
+\newcommand{\brick@draw}[2]{%
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  %
+  % store the current scale factor
+  % from https://github.com/samcarter/tikzlings/issues/3#issuecomment-461373494
+  %
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  \pgfgettransformentries{\tmpscaleA}{\tmpscaleB}{\tmpscaleC}{\tmpscaleD}{\tmp}{\tmp}%
+  \pgfmathsetmacro{\scalingfactor}{sqrt(abs(\tmpscaleA*\tmpscaleD-\tmpscaleB*\tmpscaleC))*sqrt(abs((\pgf@xx/1cm)*(\pgf@yy/1cm)-(\pgf@xy/1cm)*(\pgf@yx/1cm)))}%
+  \pgfmathsetmacro{\xscalefactor}{\tmpscaleA}
+  \pgfmathsetmacro{\yscalefactor}{\tmpscaleD}
+  %
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  %
+  % Drawing the brick
+  % 
+  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+  \begin{scope}[tdplot_main_coords]
+  
+    % drawing faces
+    \fill[\brick@color!60,thick] (0+\value{brickx},#2+\value{bricky},0+\brick@height*\value{brickz}) -- ++(#1,0,0) -- ++(0,0,\brick@height) -- ++(-#1,0,0) -- cycle; % top
+    \fill[\brick@color!40,thick] (0+\value{brickx},0+\value{bricky},\brick@height+\brick@height*\value{brickz}) -- ++(0,#2,0) -- ++(#1,0,0) -- +(0,-#2,0) -- cycle; % front
+    \fill[\brick@color,thick] (#1+\value{brickx},0+\value{bricky},0+\brick@height*\value{brickz}) -- ++(0,0,\brick@height) -- ++(0,#2,0) -- ++(0,0,-\brick@height) -- cycle; % right
+    
+    %drawing studs
+    \foreach \x in {1,...,#1}{
+      \foreach \y in {1,...,#2}{
+        \fill[\brick@color] (\x-0.5+\value{brickx},\y-0.5+\value{bricky},\brick@height+\brick@height*\value{brickz}) circle [radius=0.35]; 
+        \fill[\brick@color] (\x-0.5+\value{brickx},\y-0.5+\value{bricky},\brick@height+\brick@height*\value{brickz}) ++(canvas cs:x=-10) -- ++(canvas cs:y=3) -- ++(canvas cs:x=20) -- ++(canvas cs:y=-3);
+        \fill[\brick@color!60] (\x-0.5+\value{brickx},\y-0.5+\value{bricky},\brick@height+\brick@height*\value{brickz}) ++(canvas cs:y=3) circle [radius=0.35]  node[\brick@color,scale=\scalingfactor*0.5, font=\sffamily] {\brick@text};
+      }
+    }
+    
+  \end{scope}
+}
+
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check
index 90877788153..8dff4027612 100755
--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ my @TLP_working = qw(
     tikz-nef tikz-network tikz-opm tikz-optics
     tikz-palattice tikz-planets tikz-qtree
     tikz-relay tikz-sfc tikz-swigs tikz-timing tikz-trackschematic tikz-truchet
-    tikzcodeblocks tikzducks tikzinclude tikzlings
+    tikzbricks tikzcodeblocks tikzducks tikzinclude tikzlings
     tikzmark tikzmarmots tikzorbital
     tikzpackets tikzpagenodes tikzpeople tikzpfeile tikzposter
     tikzscale tikzsymbols
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc
index 1c608109f90..cc425e0213c 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ depend tikz-swigs
 depend tikz-timing
 depend tikz-trackschematic
 depend tikz-truchet
+depend tikzbricks
 depend tikzcodeblocks
 depend tikzducks
 depend tikzinclude
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/tikzbricks.tlpsrc b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/tikzbricks.tlpsrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/tikzbricks.tlpsrc