UPDATE:
10-22-16 Made code a lot smaller w better coding
10-22-16 Changed random for cycle, makes tighter maze
10-22-16 No hesitation, hold (O?) to build maze
Sometimes programming languages are too complex for their own good.
Take B4GL. It's designed for building 3D games so to even get a simple rectangle or square that is measured by true-pixels on your screen is a pain to achieve without first defining your graphic plane of existence.
Even BlitzMAX must rely on you saving regions of raster information on the order of R G B A where A is alpha, in order to read it back.
Clumsy - inefficient, and then there is PICO.
Read a pixel, write a pixel. What could be easier ? :)
This is a program I've been meaning to try for a-while but didn't want to fight the architect of the other languages that don't handle individual pixels so well.
I had it in my mind. Draw a random vertical or horizontal line. Draw another. If it intersects an existing line, HOP over it. Keep repeating until no more lines can be added. Done.
I really didn't know what to expect, and now I can see it is a very definite and DIFFERENT type of maze maker.
Try and solve the maze with your fingers from the top-left-hand corner to the bottom-right-hand corner. It's not as easy as it sounds.
Enjoi !
QUESTION!
Does anyone know how to build a maze that does not have any dead ends ? That is, every point in the maze can reach every other point but never give you a choice or chance of directions, only turns in the maze.
Instead of square mazes only, allow any x,y dimension. The easiest thing to do is to draw the outer border as a rectangle and let it run as is and ignore what is outside that border. But that's wasteful if building a maze in memory as a level map.
This is an interesting maze algorithm that makes some weird lookin mazes
I can think of a cheesy way to do a labyrinth: do a normal maze at a lower resolution, then fill it in with a double-bandwidth path that treats dead ends as loopbacks.
IOW, imagine you have a normal maze with dead ends and intersections all that jazz (but no freestanding walls). Into it you drop a very small robot. It can only follow the right hand rule, and drags a piece of chalk behind it as it goes. The chalk would trace out a labyrinth.
Juanitogan:
- It could be configured for a different size.
Cheepicus:
- I've checked it pretty carefully. It does seem (at least from what I can tell) that all openings link to each other. There are no sealed off corridors that are unreachable.
A robot could be dropped in to check everything.
I didn't say anything about whether rooms were connected. (FWIW I believe your maze are connected because none of the line segments can ever seal off a space when they divide it.)
I was addressing your QUESTION! about how to make mazes that don't have any intersections in them. That kind of maze is called a labyrinth.
Not sure if I understood your question right ... Prim's algorithm gives nice mazes where every point can be reached but it still has many dead ends.
I think dw was asking about a cretan labyrinth, one single long turning corridor that fills the map:
(this one is one big dead end, though ^^)
@dw817 Maze generation algorithms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_generation_algorithm
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