mazegradient

Visualizes distance from the start to any point in a binary maze using a gradient. The start is bright yellow, and then the gradient moves from purple-blue-green-yellow as the distance from the start point increases. The walls are dark purple.

Set up

You can run maze.py like any other python file, such as through the command line. Before that, the following two files need to be set up.

maze.png:

Create or move a black (walls) & white (path) pixel maze to the same location as maze.py and name it maze.png. If parts of the maze are unreachable, they won't show up on the output.

config.txt:

Copy defaultconfig.txt and rename it to config.txt. Then set the following configuration up.

Required:

• mode: 'binary' will display the maze with no gradient, and 'gradient' will display the gradient of distance from start point
• start_y and start_x: X and Y values for the start point. Make sure this is set to a pixel with path on it! To find the coordinate of a point, run the program in binary mode and zoom in.

Can be left alone:

• gradient_range: Integer used for determining gradient colour. It may need to be scaled according to the size of the image (big image = big value). Increase the value if your gradient is too yellow, and decrease the value if your gradient is too blue.