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Title: Mazes
Post by: kronos on February 28, 2017, 11:48:54 AM

Is it possible to generate mazes like this (http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/maze/roman/romanw.gif)
without drawing it ?

Title: Re: Mazes
Post by: Lazur on February 28, 2017, 12:40:59 PM

Hi.

That's a labyrinth not a maze. Maze generating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_generation_algorithm) seems to be quite common, like  this page (http://www.mazegenerator.net/), first in a search.

Drawing a labyrinth?
Shouldn't be so hard (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17260) drawing one manually.

What exactly would you generate on that given image? Add in more turns?

Title: Re: Mazes
Post by: kronos on February 28, 2017, 12:43:28 PM

Just like that http://www.mazegenerator.net/ is creating it, I was wondering if Inkscape has this generator for mazes and labyrints.

Title: Re: Mazes
Post by: Lazur on February 28, 2017, 01:18:29 PM

There seems to be no maze extension in the repository (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_repository), although Eggbot (http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Eggmazing) offers a maze generating option.

(You can import pdf layouds from mazegenerator as well.)

Title: Re: Mazes
Post by: brynn on March 07, 2017, 11:11:47 AM

The About page for that mazegenerator site says it outputs SVG.  So don't even need to import a PDF!

I've had some fun making maze-like and labyrinth-like images with Inkscape.  It can be tedious, but is not hard by any stretch.  Here's how I did it.

-- draw a square
-- duplicate the square
-- position is beside the first square  (must use snapping for best result!  http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Snapping.html)
-- select both squares and duplicate
-- move those 2 into place
-- select all 4 and duplicate
-- etc., etc.

When you have a section that you want to keep, select all the squares, and do Path menu > Union.  Magic!

Then just continue along.  If you want the maze/labyrinth to be symmetrical, one or both ways, then you only need to construct one half or one fourth of it.  Select the entire half or fourth and duplicate.  Then flip either horizontal or vertical, as necessary.

Here's one that I made:  http://inkscapecommunity.com/ic_gallery/displayimage.php?album=42&pid=446#top_display_media
I thought the color added another interesting dimension.

Title: Re: Mazes
Post by: kronos on March 16, 2017, 12:16:29 PM

Thanks