Maze Construction
Mazes have been built with walls and rooms, with hedges, turf, corn stalks, hay bales, books, paving stones of contrasting colors or designs, and brick, or in fields of crops such as corn or, indeed, maize. Maize mazes can be very large; they are usually only kept for one growing season, so they can be different every year, and are promoted as seasonal tourist attractions. Indoors, Mirror Mazes are another form of maze, where many of the apparent pathways are imaginary routes seen through multiple reflections in mirrors. Another type of maze consists of a set of rooms linked by doors (so a passageway is just another room in this definition). Players enter at one spot, and exit at another, or the idea may be to reach a certain spot in the maze. Mazes can also be printed or drawn on paper to be followed by a pencil or fingertip.
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A small maze
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A computer-generated maze
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Another computer-generated maze with two solutions, showing the level of complexity that is possible to achieve with modern algorithms
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Solution to the maze on the left. Notice that the solution path is precisely the boundary of the connected components of the wall of the maze, each represented by a different colour
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A circular computer-generated maze
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Classical labyrinth
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