Hi all,

Last week I started pondering the creation of random, perfect rectangular mazes
(single entrance & exit with a single correct path between them, and no loops or
orphaned/unused areas) using only the POV-SDL. It's probably been done before
but, since I often use POV-Ray as a de-stressing agent, as a personal challenge
I spent a couple of evenings writing a set of maze macros. At parse time the
mazes are randomly "discovered" and maze data is stored in a 2d array. In a
nested loop each wall is assembled using 3 boxes (2 corner boxes connected by a
wall box).

After I got it all working properly I started thinking about what I could
actually /use/ this for (pigments, bump maps, image patterns, height fields,
etc.) and began experimenting with various scene ideas. Here are some basic
example mazes rendered with an orthographic camera; 8x8, 16x16, and 32x32 units
respectively.

Cheers,
Rob
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www.McGregorFineArt.com

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