Maze-making plugin or standalone?

I don’t know if they are solvable, but this does work.

1. Load your image.
2. Make sure it is not on the background layer (double click the background layer to make it a regular layer if needed)
3. Using the Transform > Rotate option rotate your image in 10 degree incremements about 100 times. Basically spin it in a circle. Because of a rounding error in Photoshop this process will turn the image in to a maze like pattern. The more you do it the more pronounced it is.

Myself I record a full 36 10 degree rotations as an action and then just run that action over and over and over again. You can then convert the image to grayscale or black and white. Like I said I don’t know if it is solvable.

Robert

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:03:41 GMT, "John Doe"
wrote:

I don’t know if they are solvable, but this does work.

1. Load your image.
2. Make sure it is not on the background layer (double click the background layer to make it a regular layer if needed)
3. Using the Transform > Rotate option rotate your image in 10 degree incremements about 100 times. Basically spin it in a circle. Because of a rounding error in Photoshop this process will turn the image in to a maze like pattern. The more you do it the more pronounced it is.
Myself I record a full 36 10 degree rotations as an action and then just run that action over and over and over again. You can then convert the image to grayscale or black and white. Like I said I don’t know if it is solvable.
Robert

"Solvable" is not the proper word.

If a maze has a available path from input to output, there is a trivial method to find _a_ path (not necessarily the optimum path, but _a_ path).

What I think you meant to say is that your "maze" may not have an _available_path_.

…Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Typical engineer answer.

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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:03:41 GMT, "John Doe"
wrote:

I don’t know if they are solvable, but this does work.

1. Load your image.
2. Make sure it is not on the background layer (double click the background
layer to make it a regular layer if needed)
3. Using the Transform > Rotate option rotate your image in 10 degree incremements about 100 times. Basically spin it in a circle. Because of a rounding error in Photoshop this process will turn the image in to a maze like pattern. The more you do it the more pronounced it is.
Myself I record a full 36 10 degree rotations as an action and then just run
that action over and over and over again. You can then convert the image to
grayscale or black and white. Like I said I don’t know if it is solvable.
Robert

"Solvable" is not the proper word.

If a maze has a available path from input to output, there is a trivial method to find _a_ path (not necessarily the optimum path, but _a_ path).

What I think you meant to say is that your "maze" may not have an _available_path_.

…Jim Thompson
—
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC’s and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:19:50 -0900, "StinkFinger" wrote:

Typical engineer answer.

ROTFLMAO!

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message

[snip]

"Solvable" is not the proper word.

If a maze has a available path from input to output, there is a trivial method to find _a_ path (not necessarily the optimum path, but _a_ path).

What I think you meant to say is that your "maze" may not have an _available_path_.

…Jim Thompson

I can still dazzle my grandkids by solving the maze on the children’s menu about as fast as I can move a pencil.

…Jim Thompson
—
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC’s and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:14:06 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:19:50 -0900, "StinkFinger" wrote:

Typical engineer answer.

ROTFLMAO!

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message

[snip]

"Solvable" is not the proper word.

If a maze has a available path from input to output, there is a trivial method to find _a_ path (not necessarily the optimum path, but _a_ path).

What I think you meant to say is that your "maze" may not have an _available_path_.

…Jim Thompson

I can still dazzle my grandkids by solving the maze on the children’s menu about as fast as I can move a pencil.

…Jim Thompson

Pondering "how do you make a maze" I decided, just make a square grid, then knock out links to suit your fancy.

As soon as I thought of that, I found…

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/makemaze/

which does that very thing.

Or just use…

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/AdvMazeSetupForm.htm l

…Jim Thompson
—
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC’s and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

"John Doe" …

I don’t know if they are solvable, but this does work.

1. Load your image.
2. Make sure it is not on the background layer (double click the background layer to make it a regular layer if needed)
3. Using the Transform > Rotate option rotate your image in 10 degree incremements about 100 times. Basically spin it in a circle. Because of a rounding error in Photoshop this process will turn the image in to a maze like pattern. The more you do it the more pronounced it is.
Myself I record a full 36 10 degree rotations as an action and then just run that action over and over and over again. You can then convert the image to grayscale or black and white. Like I said I don’t know if it is solvable.
Robert

Trying this in Elements 3 as I type. No actions available as far as I can tell, and for some reason performance takes a huge hit after a few rotations, even after I clear the undo history. Hope there’s no memory leak….I wonder if Paint Shop Pro has the same exploitable rounding error. 🙂

Thanks,
false_dmitrii

Jim Thompson …

Pondering "how do you make a maze" I decided, just make a square grid, then knock out links to suit your fancy.

As soon as I thought of that, I found…

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/makemaze/

which does that very thing.

Or just use…

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/AdvMazeSetupForm.htm l

Thanks for the links! They don’t solve the "maze from a picture" puzzle (on their own), but they should make some young relatives very happy. 🙂

false_dmitrii