Sunday, August 24, 2008

Compiz Cube Maze







I am a linux user. I was introduced to linux when I was in high school and have used it happily ever since. The computer I ran it on was getting very old so I bought a new laptop recently. I put my favorite distro, LinuxMint onto it and suddenly I had a new feature I did not have before. My new graphics card supports compiz-fusion, an amazing effects software. Compiz has many eye-popping graphics, and one of its many features is the ability to arrange four desktop workspaces on the faces of a cube. Since I can change the wallpaper and change the image on the top face of the cube, I decided to create a maze. The maze could stretch from the top to the sides and keep going.

My screen resolution is 1280x800, so the image on the sides of the cube will be 1280x800 in size and the image on top will be 1280x1280. Both of the images for making a puzzling compiz cube are given.

Note: this is probably the toughest maze I have designed yet! Comment if you solve it.

Maze 003


I have one more old maze. This one is a bit more recent and is much bigger than the other two. If you look closely enough, you can see the solution still slightly shaded in ;). The start is at the top left and the finish is at the opposite corner.

Maze 002


Another post and another maze. You may have noticed that I have begun enumerating the mazes (a common habit of mine). This maze is also old, done just a day after the one from the previous post. The start and finish are at the center and the straight passage between them is tauntingly closed. This one is a little bit more difficult than the last one, but also relatively easy. Once again, going out of the maze is illegal.


Maze 001

This is my first post, and also the first maze I am uploading. I have created many mazes before, but have not kept track of them. This maze is a rather old maze, but I am uploading it anyway. It is a small maze and not very difficult, but a maze nonetheless. The start is at the bottom left and the finish is buried in the middle of the maze. Going out of the maze is illegal. Try it out and feel free to comment.