Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Maze Generator

mazegenerator.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–56 of 56 posts

Re: Maze Generator

#51

Post by replyifuagree »

popey wrote: post #34
moses-palmer wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A kind soul contributed an update to the README---basically the output of `cargo run --bin maze-maker -- --help. I guess today's lesson is: do promote your personal project even when it's semi-arsed, because people on the Internet are mostly kind and will help you improve your documentation!

A friend of mine does coding live streams on Twitch. It's pleasantly surprising how many randos (who become internet friends) will help out with your projects.

Many human engineers get happy chemicals from helping people! Also many humans!

Re: Maze Generator

#52

Post by abound »

andruby wrote: post #37
moses-palmer wrote: post #16

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…

I'd love to see a screenshot before downloading/installing.

It's a command line program that outputs SVGs. Here's an example: https://paste.sr.ht/blob/d248dd89f96c6de981bf0870265a63be8e1...

(download and open with a browser/SVG viewer)

The invocation to generate that was:

    ./maze-maker --width=50 --height=50 --method braid,branching,winding out.svg

Re: Maze Generator

#53

Post by ketralnis »

FireInsight wrote: post #29
rippeltippel wrote: post #2

> 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.

I agree and it's certainly their perogative and one should respect it.

That said, how are people using this to generate any income at all? Printing out and selling mazes? How big can that market be?

Re: Maze Generator

#54

Post by inyourtenement »

thih9 wrote: post #15
rippeltippel wrote: post #2

> 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.

There's also the book Mazes for Programmers for writing your own.

http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/

Re: Maze Generator

#55

Post by junon »

abound wrote: post #52
andruby wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to see a screenshot before downloading/installing.

It's a command line program that outputs SVGs. Here's an example: https://paste.sr.ht/blob/d248dd89f96c6de981bf0870265a63be8e1... (download and open with a browser/SVG viewer) The invocation to generate that was: ./maze-maker --width=50 --height=50 --method braid,branching,winding out.svg

https://codepen.io/junon/pen/Rwdwqxg

For anyone who can't render SVG in their head :)

Re: Maze Generator

#56

Post by sliken »

analog31 wrote: post #48

Back in high school, I wrote a maze generator in BASIC, that printed the maze using ASCII characters. Then I figured out the biggest maze that would fit on a sheet of 132 column green bar paper, and submitted the job to the mainframe computer. Next morning, I got an angry rebuke from the teacher. The mainframe operator had killed my program after it had run for quite some time, assuming it was an endless loop. It jus…

Heh, I wrote a pascal program to draw the mandelbrot set. To make a print out I wrote a fortran program to convert it to postscript. I printed it on a giant lab printer that took up a wall of the lab. It normally printed 60+ pages a minute. My 300 dpi mandelbrot keep it busy for a few minutes, the lab attendant was about to kill the job, I asked for a bit of patience and everyone in the lab came to look at the result.
Post reply on HN