* Maze generator
@ 2007-02-21 22:32 Jon Harrop
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From: Jon Harrop @ 2007-02-21 22:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Whilst revamping our website, I took the time to improve the maze generator:
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/maze/
it is now 30% shorter and much faster, using an array instead of a functional
map. It also uses continuation passing style instead of an explicit stack.
But it no longer produces PostScript output.
The program uses a simple depth first search. An interesting alternative
algorithm involves keeping track of sets of connection cells and breaking
walls to unify the sets until you have a spanning tree. That should be easy
to code in OCaml but I think it will generate mazes that are much harder to
solve.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists
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