'maze' pattern?

[trevorld]

• @ddauber recently posted some cool generated mazes in R on Twitter:

  • https://twitter.com/daniel_dauber/status/1501133268409847808
  • https://twitter.com/daniel_dauber/status/1500893541890932746
  • https://twitter.com/daniel_dauber/status/1501281850400010242
  • Code for his cool mazes might eventually show up here?: https://github.com/ddauber/generative_art
  • Unsure if his examples will be made available under a permissive license (like MIT license) or packaged into an R package...

• A number of maze generation algorithms exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_generation_algorithm

• A number of R packages that plot mazes seem to exist: https://www.r-pkg.org/search.html?q=maze

  • {mazing} implemented in {base} graphics

    • Can use gridGraphics::grid.echo() to convert {base} graphics to {grid} graphics...

  • {mazealls} uses {TurtleGraphics}

    • Seems like {TurtleGraphics} uses {grid} to draw to active graphics device
    • Can use grid::grid.get() to get a grob from "display list"...

  • {mazeGen} and {networkGen} generates "html" pages of mazes

[trevorld]

I opened a PR in {mazing} that would likely make it easier to make a "maze" pattern powered by it: https://github.com/kstreet13/mazing/pull/4