polymaze 0.5.1

Create polygon-tesselation mazes from a variety of sources.

PolyMaze - Create mazes from a variety of sources

This utility converts several different kinds of inputs into mazes.

Allowed Inputs:

• Aspect ratio (height / width) of a rectangular maze

• String - convert the content of the string into a maze / mazes

• Image - convert the dark parts of an image into a maze / mazes

Options:

• Complexity - adjust the difficulty

• Font - use your own font (especially for unicode strings)

• Shape - explicitly choose the type of tesselation used in the maze

Installation:

polymaze should work with Py2 or Py3.

pip install polymaze

If you get the error decoder zip not available when using it, then probably PIL/PILLOW did not install completely. You can try:

pip install -use-wheel pillow

Commandline Usage:

To make a generic rectangular maze:

python polymaze.py

To see all options:

python polymaze.py -h

For example, to make a string into a maze with some extra options:

python polymaze.py –string “Happy Birthday!” –complexity 10 –shape Polycat

Library Usage:

Please see demo/demo.py for examples of how to use the different parts.

The primary components are PolyGrid (the geometric core of the whole package), and PolyMaze which converts a PolyGrid into a maze.

Extension:

If anyone is interested, I can document how to specify new tessellations.

Background and Feedback:

I developed this to regain some of my basic trigonometry skills which I have lost over the years.

If you find this useful or have any feedback, please let me know! Specifically I have only tested this on Windows so please make an issue if it doesn’t work in linux, etc.

License:

MIT. See LICENSE