The upper portion of this maze was drawn by hand; try to get from one big bulb to the other. Â Paths cross over and under one another.
The lower portion of this maze is much easier to solve, and was much easier to draw. Â Most of it I did with gimp, as I toyed around with selections and bucket fill. Â Find a path from one big circle to the other. Â Paths go under the upper maze.
This is my first attempt at a 3D maze-like thing. Â It can’t be solved in 2D as below, but you can print it out, cut along the outer blue lines, and with a little thoughtful folding and glue, you can have a 3D path wrapped around a paper cube!
cut along outer blue lines, fold and glue into a cube!
After a chat with my friend Patrick, I decided to use gimp to make a maze. Â I didn’t really know what to expect, but I hoped it would allow me to easily make something that looked like a drawing done with CAD. Â I don’t think it did that, but it pretty handily duplicated a complicated pattern into a 2 x 2 quadruple pattern which I tweaked to make a relatively difficult maze.
Go from one dot to two dots, or the other way around, as you see fit.
from dots to dot or dot to dots
The center of this maze started as an experiment in a new way to draw a maze. Â It seems to have worked out nicely!
Go from arrow to arrow to arrow, repeating as desired.
This is a maze for Karen!
To solve this maze, we recall ROY G BIV, the abbreviations for the color names (in English) of a rainbow.
Start with the red line on the left hand side, and trace it to a connected orange line. Â Follow this to a connected yellow line, then green, blue, indigo and violet, as in the key in the bottom left of the maze. Â Following the pattern twice, I can reach the violet line on the right hand side of the maze. Â Can you?
follow colors of ROY G BIV
I used gimp again for this maze, wanting to use slight variations of repeated patterns to make a complex-looking maze actually be a bit complex.
S and G stand for Start and Goal, or Go and Stop, as you prefer. Â The circles are just cosmetic.
from Start to Goal, or from Go to Stop
This piece started with a bunch of right angles drawn on the page, all in one of four different orientations, hence the word “aligned” in the title. Â I then drew lots of curves to connect the right angles until they were all used up and a maze had appeared!
Try to get from one dark ball to the other. Â There are two distinct paths that I’ve found.
Try to get from one ball to the other, then back by a different route
I offered to make a maze for my friend Greg Mullinax after I accidentally overlooked an email he had sent. Â I asked how difficult he’d like it to be.
Clearly it needs to be extremely accurate so that my gps works
and so devilishly difficult that i need a gps.
I hope this fits the requirements. Â There are dots in opposite corners; try to get from one to the other.
go from dot in one corner to dot in opposite corner
We were trying to think of good names for this. Â Soness suggested along the lines of “angles” and I joked that we could call it “angels” in an apparent misspelling, like “from all angels.”
For this maze, go from one black triangle to the other, using the black lines as paths.
This maze was named after the lighting I used when drawing it, out on the balcony here in Chigasaki.
I’m publishing it on a non-Tuesday because it was already published online, available at this permalink:Â http://art.robnugen.com/sm11
Fred decided he solved it by navigating between the two adjacent dots, but I think one might be more satisfied by going from the solo dot to the pair of dots.
get from the lone dot to two adjacent dots
Find a path from the spiral in the top left to the spiral in the lower right.
Perfect for April Fools’ Day, this maze turns out to not be a maze! If it were, one would try to get from one arrow to the other, staying within the white paths…
Can you explain why it’s not possible? Â Leave a comment!
show the ball how to get out!
Watch this space for a maze each week!