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Maze Generation: Sidewinder algorithm

over 1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
Last of the (eleven!) maze algorithms on my list is the Sidewinder algorithm. With a name like that, it’s got to be cool, right? Well, possibly...

Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap

over 1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
(Hello Minecrafters! If you’re looking for random mazes you can build in Minecraft, you might be better served by this page I wrote. It’ll give...

Mazes in CoffeeScript

over 1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
Several people have asked how I did the Javascript demos in my maze algorithm articles, and while I’ve answered them a couple of times in the comments...

Kaleidoscope

over 1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
It’s funny how knowledge leads to knowledge. You start digging deeper into one thing, and discover threads leading off into related fields. I began...

Programming Language Survey Results

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
A couple of weeks ago (already!) I asked two simple questions of my Twitter followers: what are (up to) four programming languages that you know and love...

Weave Mazes: Your Take?

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
Later this week I’m going to post an article about how you might implement “weave mazes”, like this one: This is a maze where some...

Maze Generation: Weave mazes

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
This is a “weave” maze: The name does not describe any specific algorithm for generating mazes, but rather simply identifies the class...

Maze Generation: More weave mazes

~1 year ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
My previous post showed one way to create “weave mazes”, or mazes in which the passages weave over and under one another. The technique I showed...

Sharing the Inheritance Hierarchy

12 months ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
I’ve been working more closely with Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 lately, and while in general it’s been smooth going, there was one particularly disappointing road...

Winding down...

9 months ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
It’s been a good run, but my thrill for blogging has ebbed. Most of my online conversation occurs on Twitter these days, and my Buckblog has definitely...