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It's been a while since Wayne Kerr's challenges, but I think I've come up with another difficult one (inspired by the Blue Maze - also by Kerr).

The task is to make a fractal maze (google it and you should come across this one). I'm pretty certain that due to the infinite nature of the maze you can't make a perfect one, but can you make a maze that allows a depth of 5 say?

I've been trying to implement the following maze, but keep running out of board space:

i like how WAYNE KERR has become flimsy's "officially recognised" name by a number of people now

much like gamemastr1

I would participate but I'm stupid with these sorts of things :(

I think i tried to DO this once

or thought about doing it and was too lazy

basically all you need is teleporters between the A and B nodes and the four paths which lead "off" the board, and walls that control whether the A or B node is connected to the paths, and also you need an object to make a record of the As and Bs gone into, that can then go back and read them off as you exit

like my turing machine but less complicated

here, i'll do it:



if you have any questions, consult the help file that comes with zzt

Zenith Nadir wrote:i like how WAYNE KERR has become flimsy's "officially recognised" name by a number of people now

I DON'T

by the way flimsy that's awesome

you're awesome

:)

I moved everything around, and battled with the number of transporters and objects I was allowed, but eventually made the following:

There's a playable version here with or without objects hidden away.
I'd be interested to see a harder fractal maze implemented (or a neater version of mine).

Really none of this stuff needs to be on the same board except the record keeper and the sensors that sense when you enter a copy of the maze. The gates can be controlled on other boards from simple flags, and if you're allowed to use multiple boards you should be able to do it without any teleporters at all.

maybe i will make one after all

what are the best examples of this you can get right now?

Wait. What? Fractal flip'it flop'a stick'n board linky shi'ta who?

It sounds cool but...y'all lost me at 'fractal'.

hmmmm, no.

i won't make one.

Jur wrote:It sounds cool but...y'all lost me at 'fractal'.

I'm not sure of the exact definition, but I thought a fractal was a shape which contains smaller copies of the whole shape within it.
With the mazes above the maze contains 'smaller' copies of the whole maze. Instead of drawing the whole maze again the smaller copies have been represented with boxes.

This might help with understanding fractals... An animation of a Koch curve, a simple fractal. It is constructed by taking a line and making a triangular peak in the center. This process turns the line into four line segments; the process is repeated for each of the segments.

Fractal mazes follow a similar pattern. You start off with a maze diagram like
the one TTTPPP posted. In each of the squares in the diagram you would insert a smaller copy of the maze. This would be repeated for the squares in the inserted mazes, and so on.