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Maze Generator

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Re: Maze Generator

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post #13

What’s E and R?

From the help page:

    E-value - Controls the elitism tendency of the generation algorithm. An elitist maze has a short solution relative to the size of the maze, while a non-elitist has a solution going through a larger portion of the maze.
    R-value - Controls the river tendency of the generation algorithm. A maze with a high river factor has few but long dead ends, while one with a low river factor will have many short dead ends.

Re: Maze Generator

#22
post #20

This, I presume, it's the perfect opportunity to promote my own maze generator[1], which incidentally is a Real Application that you can run on your own computer, and the output of which you own! Like the linked application, it supports triangular, rectangular and hexagonal grids, and different generation algorithms, which can be combined for various areas of the final maze. It also supports background and mask image…

Is there a web demo?

No, you'll have to exercise your own CPU I'm afraid!

Re: Maze Generator

#25
post #15

> the mazes from this site are not free to use for commercial purposes. If you are planning to use them in something you will sell, you need to get a commercial license. There are already several online maze generator whose output is free for commercial use. What's so special about this one?

Which ones? Can you show an example of such a maze generator? It’s hard to compare otherwise.

Just a few from a quick search:

https://mazesforfun.com/maze-generator

https://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/maze

https://multimazegenerator.com/

https://keesiemeijer.github.io/maze-generator/

Re: Maze Generator

#28

This, I presume, it's the perfect opportunity to promote my own maze generator[1], which incidentally is a Real Application that you can run on your own computer, and the output of which you own! Like the linked application, it supports triangular, rectangular and hexagonal grids, and different generation algorithms, which can be combined for various areas of the final maze. It also supports background and mask image…

Basic question: What would be the simplest way to "digitize" one of these mazes i.e. turn them into a programmable data structure (2D array, matrix, etc.) for example to use as input into a maze solver/RL demo?

Re: Maze Generator

#29

> the mazes from this site are not free to use for commercial purposes. If you are planning to use them in something you will sell, you need to get a commercial license. There are already several online maze generator whose output is free for commercial use. What's so special about this one?

Probably the author being annoyed by their website being recommended by someone for generating "passive income" based on someone else's labor.
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