Algodoo

Great work Xray!

It feels like every day that new possibilities are being explored with Thyme...

That looks fun, maybe add the drawing tool that you already made so one can "solve" the maze?

I noticed a slight mistake when generating a 64x64 maze: some additional yellow arrows appeared within the maze, but otherwise it was normal.

sometimes 64x64 mazes get crashed windows hall

Thank you everyone for your comments!

Concerning problems with very large (64x64) mazes, I probably will not take the time to fix it. So, if generating large mazes is a problem for anyone, just reduce the size until you find one that works without issues.

Is there an easy way to change the size of the generated mazes? I would like to have them much smaller for some experiments.

I'm sure the size of the mazes could be made larger or smaller if someone who understands Thyme script wants to modify the code.

Actually, after I posted my comment I thought of something that might work for your purpose. After your maze has been generated, select the entire maze. Then with the Scale Tool you can expand or shrink the entire maze! Try it.

Yeah, thats what I was already doing, but thats a bit tedious to do for every single maze ^^

It is also a bit odd that you can change the size with the scaling tool of multiple selected objects, but you can not do it with thyme, unless I am missing something... Every Object or every selection of objects should have a "height" and "width" variable, shouldnt they?

Yes, that's true. I looked over the code, and I see two variables that determine the size of the maze. They are:

STREET_WIDTH := 5.0;
WALL_THICKNESS := 2.0;

As a test I changed those values to 2.5 and 1.0 which made the maze 1/2 as large. So, I think you should be able to play around with those values in order to change the size of the generated maze.

Most of the maze generator code is in the large text box in the onKey event, and those two variables are near the top, so they are easy to locate.

Thanks, I´ll check it out!

Hi Xray, i dont think you remember much, but im the guy from that controllable rectangle scene! im working on making a 4D cube rotating animation!

You don't think I remember much? Why would you say that? I'm not an old man yet!

can you alter the code to show it building a piece each frame so you can watch the algorithm work in real time?

That's a great idea! I'll see if I can make it work the way you described over the next couple of days.

Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap

s_noonan -- Thanks for that link. It aMAZEd me.


Ozziegerff -- Sorry, I was not able to modify the scene per your request. Each time I try something that I think will work I just end up making a mess of it!