Maze5

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About

Maze 5 is an open source project with the goal of creating a program to generate mazes of different sizes and styles. You can specify the cell size, the number of rows and columns, linewidth. You can also choose between different output formats.

You can download the sources it from Sourceforge or creating a maze online . The page Create-A-Maze shows you how it works. The parameters are explained here.

Maze 5 contains a standalone command line program for creating vector or bitmap maze files and a plugin for GIMP the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
http://www.gimp.org

Features

arbitrary sized mazes
different carving algorithms
file formats: pdf, svg and png
background & foreground colors
adjustable line width
entrance & exit markers
optional drawing of solution path
using bitmap as template
25 different maze types

Gallery

A pretty standard maze generated with:
maze5 -r 30 -c 30 -t 4 -S 1 -o orthogonal.png

A smiley maze:

And with the theta maze type in the new version 0.8 you can do something like this:

maze5 -S 444 -C 12 -r 30 -c 8 -m peace-mask.png -t theta -o peace.png

and with the solution path:
maze5 -P -S 444 -C 12 -r 30 -c 8 -m peace-mask.png -t theta -o peace-solution.png

The mask that was used:

Build & Install

For building the standalone program you need the cairo graphic library. For the GIMP plugin you need an installed GIMP program with the development utilities e.g. gimp-tool.

To build maze5 you need also an installed C compiler and the scons build system.

FAQ

Does maze5 run under Windows?

If you can build it, it would probably run. I don’t have Windows, so I’ve never tried it.

Is there a GUI interface?

maze5 is a command line program. If you need a GUI you have to use the GIMP plugin
or use the web frontend.