This maze concept keeps getting better.  Not sure I like the hexagon pattern for
the floor though.

Bob

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But it's not really a maze, now, is it?
One way of generating a maze is to go through the walls in a random
order and knock down it down if there is not already a path from the
room on one side to the room on the other.

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:10:14 -0800 Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>AMazing idea, Alan.

  Gosh, thanks, Ken. By the way, I saw a Chevy Blazer last week that was
sporting a little propeller where a trailer hitch might be. The
propeller was spinning when the Blazer got up to highway speed. I was
mighty impressed at this amayonnaising amphibibious vehicle <s>.

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Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:10:14 -0800 Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> >AMazing idea, Alan.
> 
>   Gosh, thanks, Ken. By the way, I saw a Chevy Blazer last week that was
> sporting a little propeller where a trailer hitch might be. The
> propeller was spinning when the Blazer got up to highway speed. I was
> mighty impressed at this amayonnaising amphibibious vehicle <s>.

Amphibibious ? :)

Maybe the owner thinks that the prop will help achieve Blazing speed on
land as well...

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This is a coincidence, I too saw such a thing about a week ago on the I-65
freeway on my way to the Birmingham airport.  Thing is, though, it didn't spin
at a constant high rate like you might expect it would.  Apparently the air
turbulence kept it from attaining the usual 80 mile an hour wind speed of
freeway traffic.  I too also thought of it being potentially amphibious, until I
realized the prop size to vehicle size ratio.

  ;-)

Bob

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| Alan Kong wrote:
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| > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:10:14 -0800 Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
| >
| > >AMazing idea, Alan.
| >
| >   Gosh, thanks, Ken. By the way, I saw a Chevy Blazer last week that was
| > sporting a little propeller where a trailer hitch might be. The
| > propeller was spinning when the Blazer got up to highway speed. I was
| > mighty impressed at this amayonnaising amphibibious vehicle <s>.
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| Amphibibious ? :)
|
| Maybe the owner thinks that the prop will help achieve Blazing speed on
| land as well...
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Yes, I've thought of doing it that way.

David Fontaine wrote:

> But it's not really a maze, now, is it?
> One way of generating a maze is to go through the walls in a random
> order and knock down it down if there is not already a path from the
> room on one side to the room on the other.
>
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I like it :)

Rune wrote:

> Inspired by the maze discussion  in the
> "Tuesday Evening Enigma" thread, I made my own maze.
> However, it's not a pigment, but made of objects.
>
> It image took 10 minutes to render on my old P150.
>
> This is just a test of the technique.
> I might make a more interesting version sometime.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Rune
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"SamuelT." wrote:

> Yes, I've thought of doing it that way.
>
> David Fontaine wrote:
>
> > But it's not really a maze, now, is it?
> > One way of generating a maze is to go through the walls in a random
> > order and knock it down if there is not already a path from the
> > room on one side to the room on the other.

Of course this is much easier to program for square mazes than hexagonal
ones. I tried a while back to make a hex-maze generator using this
algorithm, without success, but my logic skills are probably a lot better
now :-)

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:11:51 -0600, David Fontaine wrote:
>"SamuelT." wrote:
>
>> Yes, I've thought of doing it that way.
>>
>> David Fontaine wrote:
>>
>> > But it's not really a maze, now, is it?
>> > One way of generating a maze is to go through the walls in a random
>> > order and knock it down if there is not already a path from the
>> > room on one side to the room on the other.
>
>Of course this is much easier to program for square mazes than hexagonal
>ones. I tried a while back to make a hex-maze generator using this
>algorithm, without success, but my logic skills are probably a lot better
>now :-)

Hint: don't make a hex-maze generator, make a triangle-maze generator.
The result is probably what you're looking for anyway, and the adjacency 
might be a lot easier to calculate.

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Ron Parker wrote:

> Hint: don't make a hex-maze generator, make a triangle-maze generator.
> The result is probably what you're looking for anyway, and the adjacency
> might be a lot easier to calculate.

Or a tri-maze generator with walls pre-knocked to simulate a hex-maze
generator...

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