Maze Generation

["John Billingsley" <billings@usq.edu.au>]

If you like your mazes java-flavoured, look at

http://www.jollies.com/bilbysim.htm

This is driven by Javascript.  If you 'view source' you can see
absolutely everything and can edit a saved version to your heart's
content - remember to save the graphp.class file to your local machine
too.

The maze is for the Bilby contest - a simplified version of micromouse
that runs on a maze of tiles, rather than walls.  

(I got fed up with toting a suitcase full of walls around the world,
having to buy woos for a base in each city the contest was run in and
drill and paint it overnight before the contest!  Carrying tiles and
selotape is much easier!)

It would take little effort to modify it back to the full mouse maze.

In one of the panels, there is the complete Javascript code for running
a wall-follower - change it a bit and you have a full solver.

There is an alternative version at

http://www.jollies.com/bilby/bilby.htm

that does its graphics slightly diferently.


I have sent a zip file of an old Qbasic program I used for designing
mazes over the decades, with .maz files of heaps of contests.  It has a
simple solver built into it.  I'm sure it will be circulated soon.

Cheers

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Miner [mailto:miner@centtech.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 10:25 AM
To: 'Mike Hulme'; micromouse@cs.rhul.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Maze Generation


Mike,

Well, I've read a few books on Java, so that makes me a
Java programmer, right?  :-)

Seriously, I'm a long time C programmer that has tried C++
a little and it appears I can make the leap to Java.

I'm looking forward to the release of your program.
I'd be interested in seeing a Beta version if possible.
I will say that I will not get to look at it until the 
middle of August though.  I've got a crammed schedule
between now and then.

				- Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hulme
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 7:13 PM
> 
> Dan Miner,
> 
> Sorry, but its not out yet. It was written as a University 
> project. It will be completed in the near future if there
> is a demand for it.  I may send out a beta version first,
> if your interested? Can you program in Java? this is
> what the maze solving algorithms are written in. I am 
> thinking of designing my own universal language to design
> the mice's maze solving algorithm in at a later stage.
> Give me any options you have in this area please.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike Hulme.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Miner" 
> To: "'Mike Hulme'" 
> 
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > Excellent!  That sounds like 90% of what I'm looking for.
> >
> > Sorry, but did I miss the email as to where I can get it
> > or is it not ready for release yet?
> >
> > - Dan