Maze generator

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Generate mazes of different shapes and arbitrary sizes

Maze generator can create rectangular, hexagonal, honeycomb, circular, and triangular mazes. Maze generation can be done using Kruskal's algorithm, depth-first search, breadth-first search, loop-erased random walk or Prim's algorithm. Mazes can be rendered in svg or png format (using gnuplot as intermediate in the latter case).

Dependencies

Maze generator uses gnuplot (with a system call gnuplot) to render png mazes. So make sure that gnuplot 5.0+ is installed with pngcairo terminal support and is in the path if you wish to use png.

The code is written in C++ 11, you will need a not-too-ancient C++ compiler to build it.

Installation

cd src; make

Usage

Usage: mazegen [--help] [-m <maze type>] [-a <algorithm type>]
               [-s <size> | -w <width> -h <height>]
               [-t <output type] [-o <output prefix>]

Optional arguments
  --help  Show this message and exit
  -m      Maze type
          0: Rectangular (default)
          1: Hexagonal (triangular lattice)
          2: Honeycomb
          3: Circular
          4: Circular (triangular lattice)
          5: User-defined
          6: Triangular (rectangular lattice)
  -a      Algorithm type
          0: Kruskal's algorithm (default)
          1: Depth-first search
          2: Breadth-first search
          3: Loop-erased random walk
          4: Prim's algorithm
  -s      Size (non-rectangular mazes, default: 20)
  -w,-h   Width and height (rectangular maze, default: 20)
  -t      Output type
          0: svg output (default)
          1: png output using gnuplot (.plt) intermediate 
  -o      Prefix for .svg, .plt and .png outputs (default: maze)

Issues

The arcs in the circular mazes are plotted as parametric curves in gnuplot, and png can take quite long to render for large mazes.