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This is a fractal algorithm I created for generating mazes. I think it's pretty neat. The original was written in C for a computer science class I was taking at UCSC. This version is in Python. The original would print spaces and hashes (#) to display the maze. This version also generates HTML.
 
This is a fractal algorithm I created for generating mazes. I think it's pretty neat. The original was written in C for a computer science class I was taking at UCSC. This version is in Python. The original would print spaces and hashes (#) to display the maze. This version also generates HTML.
  
This generates a random maze with no loops. In fact, it is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_tree_%28mathematics%29 spanning tree] -- a connected, undirected graph that uses all the vertices in a graph with no cycles.
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This generates a random maze with no loops. It is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_tree_%28mathematics%29 spanning tree] -- a connected, undirected graph that uses all the vertices in a graph with no cycles.
  
 
You can run the brain maze algorithm by clicking here: [http://www.noah.org/cgi-bin/brainmaze.py brainmaze.py]
 
You can run the brain maze algorithm by clicking here: [http://www.noah.org/cgi-bin/brainmaze.py brainmaze.py]

Revision as of 16:32, 7 December 2007


This is a fractal algorithm I created for generating mazes. I think it's pretty neat. The original was written in C for a computer science class I was taking at UCSC. This version is in Python. The original would print spaces and hashes (#) to display the maze. This version also generates HTML.

This generates a random maze with no loops. It is a spanning tree -- a connected, undirected graph that uses all the vertices in a graph with no cycles.

You can run the brain maze algorithm by clicking here: brainmaze.py

Click here to download: brainmaze.py <include svncat src="file:///home/svn/src/python/brainmaze.py" highlight="python" />