longjohncoder/mazegenerator

Generate mazes of different shapes and arbitrary sizes

Maze generator

Generate mazes of different shapes and arbitrary sizes

Dependencies

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

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>]
               [-o <output prefix>]

Optional arguments
  --help  Show this message and exit
  -m      Maze type
          0: Rectangular
          1: Hexagonal (triangular lattice)
          2: Honeycomb
          3: Circular
          4: Circular (triangular lattice)
  -a      Algorithm type
          0: Kruskal's algorithm
          1: Depth-first search
          2: Breadth-first search
  -s      Size (non-rectangular mazes)
  -w,-h   Width and height(rectangular maze)
  -o      Prefix for .plt and .png outputs

Issues

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