Mazes & Maps

10 PRINT

Nick Montfort and others compilation of maze generation and other simple scripts from early home computing.

https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/book/583

Some links to nice parts

• Including what is a maze, and the ever useful (controversial?) distinction between maze and labyrinth...

The terms “maze” and “labyrinth” are generally synonyms in colloquial English. Still, many scholars and historians have argued over the distinction between these two terms. In the most popular proposed distinction, “labyrinth” refers only to single-path (unicursal) structures, while “maze” refers only to branching-path (multicursal) structures.In this book, the terms “maze” and “labyrinth” are not used to distinguish two different categories of structure or image. Instead, the two terms indicate a single conceptual category, with this book primarily using the term “maze” for both

• the map from Atari adventure,
• the (missing) Vera Molnar work but which you can see online,
• the commodore keyboard, the petsci table in the manual

Situationist Times #04: International Labyrinth Edition

• printed maze with overlay

PDFs available on monoskop!

Generating a maze with python

• https://medium.com/swlh/fun-with-python-1-maze-generator-931639b4fb7e

Amaze-ing maps with game assets

Our journey begins here... https://www.kenney.nl/assets/cartography-pack

!wget "https://www.kenney.nl/content/3-assets/26-cartography-pack/cartographypack.zip"
!mkdir cartographypack
!unzip cartographypack.zip -d cartographypack

--2022-02-03 17:41:00--  https://www.kenney.nl/content/3-assets/26-cartography-pack/cartographypack.zip
Resolving www.kenney.nl (www.kenney.nl)... 149.210.216.123
Connecting to www.kenney.nl (www.kenney.nl)|149.210.216.123|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4199252 (4.0M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘cartographypack.zip’

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2022-02-03 17:41:00 (19.4 MB/s) - ‘cartographypack.zip’ saved [4199252/4199252]

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Interesting how the set contains "path" elements in what seems to be a minimal vocabulary:

!ls cartographypack/PNG/Default/path*

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from glob import glob
import os
from IPython.display import display, Markdown
src = ""
for i in glob("cartographypack/PNG/Default/path*"):
    src += f'![]({i} "{os.path.basename(i)}") '
display(Markdown(src))

from random import choice
pieces = glob("cartographypack/PNG/Default/path*")
src=''
for i in range(100):
    piece = choice(pieces)
    src += f'![]({piece})'
display(Markdown(src))