Cody Boone Ferguson
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This simplifies the running of the program as the command lines (different options) can be long and more complicated to type, especially the last one. The script is menu driven. Initially I made it a loop so one can run the command once to try multiple modes but this seems unnecessary and created some display problems (depending on how invocations were done).
2.6 KiB
To build:
make all
To use:
./bas1.sh
Judges' remarks:
The output is supposed to be a 3D maze, but it is somewhat more than that. If you've seen any of the Maurits Escher's works, you'll know what we're talking about.
When trying to run the program with command line arguments, be generous.
Author's remarks:
BEMAZING
"You're in a twisty little maze of beams, all different."
Bemazing is "amazing" taken one step (letter) further. Bemazing
creates a 3D maze of beams. Try to go from the entrance (the
unfinished beam in one corner) to the exit (the unfinished beam in the
opposite corner) or vice versa.
For maximum portability, Bemazing is not tied to any window system, but
creates postscript output. The picture it makes will fit on either A4 or letter
size paper.
In addition, because postscript is rather verbose, Bemazing creates
the postscript in gzip(1) format, in order to save precious bits on your
hard disk for the latest version of GNU
Emacs (after all, you wouldn't
want to use an editor without a psychoanalyze-pinhead function, now
would you). Again for maximum portability, Bemazing will take special
care that the binary output will not contain any newline or return
characters that may get weird treatment on systems that do not use the
One True Line Separator.
NOTES
Be sure to view the source with something that can display characters
\240-\377. Use LESSCHARSET=latin1, M-x standard-display-european in
GNU Emacs etc. The source does not use characters in the range
\200-\237 (we are not an unnamed word processor that tends to create
HTML containing these control characters).
Because this is not the obfuscated postscript contest, the postscript
does not contain any for, if or other control structures. All the
logic is in the C code. There are only a few straightforward defs,
because otherwise the output would become much larger.
Try running Bemazing with command line arguments and see what
happens. (But note that the program only guarantees that there
actually is a route from entrance to exit if you run it without
command line arguments.)
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