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Essential Reading
There are many nice books out there, but a few of them contain such wisdom that I just must mention them here:
Jun '24
21
5 Maze Algorithms in 5 Minutes
I presented and explained 5 increasingly sophisticated maze generation algorithms in five minutes as one of the lightning talks at Joy of Coding 2024.
First is a classic C64 basic one liner, which generates a random maze using fore- and backslashes. Then two stateless algorithms where only a random choice and the position of the cell influences the outcome. And finishing with a backtracking algorithm.
The session was recorded, you can watch it below: