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You can use MAZE to draw any maze structure - a predetermined arrangement of cells (a rectangular grid) with wall sites between them. Each new maze is unique, random. All generated mazes have a free walkthrough path (maze solution).
Download the free MAZE.LSP file from Download, load it into AutoCAD by mouse dragging or with the APPLOAD command and type the MAZE command to draw a randomly generated maze grid. The maze is drawn as LINE entities near the coordinate origin point (0,0).
You can change the values of the *width* and *height* LISP variables (in the LSP file) to draw mazes of any size (complexity). Always use odd numbers for these sizes.
Sample DWG drawings generated by MAZE are here - MAZE-139x77.DWG and MAZE-47x29.DWG (3D maze, by assigning width and thickness to polylines made from Maze lines).
MAZE source code - VisualLISP:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; CLISP Maze 20030311 by Joe Wingbermuehle - maze generator ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; ; Mod from CLISP to VisualLISP by CAD Studio, 2018 - www.cadstudio.cz www.cadforum.cz ; - like us on Facebook - fb.com/CADstudio ; ; The width and height of the maze. Both must be odd! (setq *width* 39) ; 139 (setq *height* 21) ; 77 (setq maze nil) (vl-load-com) (defun C:MAZE ( / x y) (defun random (rng / x) ; integer version (fix (* (/ (setq x 4294967296.0 seed (rem (1+ (* 1664525.0 (cond (seed) ((getvar 'DATE))))) x)) x) rng)) ) (defun setf (arr x y new) ; put array (vlax-safearray-put-element arr x y new) ) (defun aref (arr x y) ; get array (vlax-safearray-get-element arr x y) ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Start carving the maze at a specific location. (defun carve-maze (x y / d c cd dv x1 y1 x2 y2) (setq d (random 4)) (setq c 0) (while (< c 4) (setq cd (rem (+ c d) 4) ; mod dv (cond ((= cd 0) (list 1 0)) ((= cd 1) (list 0 1)) ((= cd 2) (list -1 0)) (t (list 0 -1))) x1 (+ x (car dv)) y1 (+ y (cadr dv)) x2 (+ x1 (car dv)) y2 (+ y1 (cadr dv)) ) (if (and (and (> x2 0) (< x2 *width*)) (and (> y2 0) (< y2 *height*))) (if (and (= (aref maze x1 y1) 1) (= (aref maze x2 y2) 1)) (progn (setf maze x1 y1 0) (setf maze x2 y2 0) (carve-maze x2 y2) ) ) ) (setq c (1+ c)) ); loop ;) ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Generate a maze (defun generate-maze () (random 13) (setf maze 1 1 0) ; 1 1 0 (carve-maze 1 1) (setf maze 1 0 0) ; maze entry (setf maze (- *width* 1) (- *height* 2) 0) ; maze exit ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Display the maze - textual (defun display-maze ( / y x) (setq y 0) (while (< y *height*) (setq x 0) (while (< x *width*) (if (= (aref maze x y) 1) (princ "[]") ; \U+25AE (princ " ") ) (setq x (1+ x)) ) ; wh x (terpri) (setq y (1+ y)) ) ; wh y ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Draw the maze - graphics (defun draw-maze ( / y x elem e oldc oldo) (setq oldc (getvar "CMDECHO") oldo (getvar "OSMODE")) (setvar "CMDECHO" 0)(setvar "OSMODE" 0) (setq y 0) (while (< y *height*); HORIZONTALS ---- (setq x 0 elem nil) (while (< x *width*) (if (= (aref maze x y) 1) (if elem (setq elem (cons (list x (- *height* y 1)) elem)) ; still horizontals (setq elem (list (list x (- *height* y 1)))) ) ; else 0 (if (and elem (> (length elem) 1)) ; any segments to draw? (progn (command "_LINE" (car (reverse elem)) (car elem) "") (setq elem nil)) ; start->end (setq elem nil) ) ) ; maze draw (setq x (1+ x)) (if (and (= x *width*) elem (> (length elem) 1))(progn (command "_LINE" (car (reverse elem)) (car elem) ""))) ;finish row ) ; wh x (setq y (1+ y)) ) ; wh y (setq x 0) (while (< x *width*); VERTICALS ------- (setq y 0 elem nil) (while (< y *height*) (if (= (aref maze x y) 1) (if elem (setq elem (cons (list x (- *height* y 1)) elem)) ; still verticals (setq elem (list (list x (- *height* y 1)))) ) ; else 0 (if (and elem (> (length elem) 1)) ; any segments to draw? (progn (command "_LINE" (car (reverse elem)) (car elem) "") (setq elem nil)) ; start->end (setq elem nil) ) ) ; maze (setq y (1+ y)) (if (and (= y *height*) elem (> (length elem) 1))(progn (command "_LINE" (car (reverse elem)) (car elem) ""))) ;finish column ) ; wh y (setq x (1+ x)) ) ; wh x (setvar "OSMODE" oldo) (setvar "CMDECHO" oldc) ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Create and display the maze. (setq maze (vlax-make-safearray vlax-vbInteger (cons 0 (1- *width*)) (cons 0 (1- *height*)))) ; create array (setq y 0) (while (< y *height*) (setq x 0) (while (< x *width*) (setf maze x y 1) ; prefill (setq x (1+ x)) ) ; wh x (setq y (1+ y)) ) ; wh y (generate-maze) ; create (display-maze) ; list out (draw-maze) ; draw out (princ) ) (princ "\nMAZE command loaded.") (princ)