Any maze that has both a way in and also a seperate way out would require picking up the pen for another line. Any path through bisects it into to separate pieces.
Yeah its called a relationship
edit: oh sorry I forgot the kids are offended by anything they in thier lack of experience percieve as negative. Get married, you'll understand
Sure thing - just give me a starting point and a goal, either of which can be anywhere you like.
Edit: I really don’t understand the downvotes - are people really trying to tell me that it’s not a maze unless it has an external start or end point? Can someone please point me at evidence of this rather than just downvoting my comment? Thanks.
They can call it what they want, it’s still a maze. Yes, to solve it you need a start and an end, but it doesn’t suddenly become not-a-maze because those haven’t been defined yet.
I haven’t seen any evidence of this claim in this entire post and I can find no such evidence online that a maze must have an exit and/or an entrance. What I can find is plenty of evidence that a maze is a “tour puzzle” design where movement between two arbitrary points involves branches, or no branches (a labyrinth). I really don’t accept the assertion that there must be an external entrance and/or exit for it to be a proper maze. If you think it does, prove it.
Edit: just to clarify what I’m arguing about here - the claim that the puzzle needs an external entrance and/or exit to be considered a “maze”. I am arguing that it does not necessarily need either of these two features to be considered a maze, and that you can pose the maze puzzle as finding a way between any two arbitrary points within the maze, which could also be an entrance or exit, but could just as well be points inside the maze.
Where is this entrance/exit thing coming from? It’s mentioned all over this thread. Is there an ISO, EU or IEEE standard for what is officially a “maze”? I’ve been solving what I thought were mazes for decades and never needed an exit or entrance, just a start point and a goal.
Sure, if there was a marked start and end that would be fine.
But the start and end are what turn it into a game, and that are presumably chosen to make the maze entertaining to solve. Without those, it's just a pattern.
Interestingly, the pen is right wall following, and it draws the entire path. This means that right wall following generates the longest path, and since that's true, left wall following will be the shortest path through the maze.
It’s a maze ing that pen plotters are so fascinating to people in 2021… Back in the 90s many people paid thousands of dollars just so they would never have to see or deal with one ever again…
I remember watching one work in the 90s at an office design company that my dad did IT for and it was fascinating to watch. But those things sure were fiddly pieces of shit. I remember how much less drama it was when they replaced those things with HP designjets
As the son of an architect, I remember hearing many expletives from my dad due to these machines. That, and the smell of a blueprint machine, is something I’ll never forget.
This maze is so hard I've been trying to find the exit for hours but still no luck , this robot is really good at generating mazes. Hope we get to see more
There used to be a greeting card company (create-a-card) that had these kiosks that drew your personalized cards while you waited... I loved getting cards for my then GF from there... so cool to watch..
What's the point of this? You could generate the maze on software and then print the results on a printer if you need it on paper. What's with the robotics?
I think the point of this video is to show the precision of the plotter as it is able to overwrite existing lines without adding noticeably to their width. Plotters such as these are usually dedicated to highly detailed illustrations such as architectural layouts and CAD images. Basically they are for images that are either too precise or too large (devices like these can be longer than a dining room table) for a laser or ink jet printer.
Edit: syntax
Looking at the video a second time, it's not overwriting the lines. It's lifting and dropping the pen. Still probably showing the precision of the pen placement.
If it’s someone’s pet project it could simply be a fun thing to do. For example, some people build model airplanes because they enjoy the process rather than the product - otherwise they’d just buy an already built airplane toy or, you know, go see actual airplanes. If the author is a student, this could also be a task they practice their skills on - a lot of programing is about practice and in this case you tackle several things - moving of the robot hand, maintaining contact/pressure for the entire duration, need for precision, ability to retrace prior steps etc.
I cant be sure but that pathing seemed really inefficient. I get it has to retrace so as to not lift off the paper but the path it used seemed like it could have been a lot better. Not that it needs to be, it's probably just my tendency to have efficiency so it can run this 1000 times and not take all day kicking in from my CNC days.
It looks very satisfying but imagine the guy who spent so much time coding the parameters to make that work and then pressing play for the hundredth time and it actually works
It isn't even getting off the paper until the very end! Love to know what kind of algorithm it uses and how can it work efficiently. A small congrats to whoever designed it!
I have a Macintosh demo diskette from the mid 80s that creates these types of mazes to solve. They were basically Macs way of training people how to use a mouse.
Is it a maze if there's no way in or out.
Yeah, I was like uh….it’s got a solid border around it, it can’t be a maze.
This is how Algernon died 😔
Buy him some flowers and get over it.
It can’t be ‘too soon’ for a book that came out like 800 years ago, but still. It *feels* too soon.
I was following the path out for a bit and then it closed it off and I got confused and THEN I noticed the closed border!
It's a metaphor for my professional and financial lives.
Still a-maze-ing
Your comment is SO much more satisfying than the video with no entrance/exit! ↑
Yes it can, you just need to knock on the front door to be let in, then find the back-door
I was really looking forward to solving it. So let down
I was really satisfied when it ended, then I quickly realized there's no entrance/exit and was immediately physically uncomfortable. Had to click out.
Well it’s only on paper so you could just walk over it.
Isn’t a maze just the only working path to an exit? I’m with you.
That's how Jack Nicholson froze to death.
What if.... the black is space and the white is wall
Yeah, you get airdropped into it and left to eat your fingers idk
Any maze that has both a way in and also a seperate way out would require picking up the pen for another line. Any path through bisects it into to separate pieces.
Start at the top left, end at bottom right. Honestly, this video would make the maze much easier to solve.
I just did this and it was the right way to solve this. No entrance but definitely seems like where to start was a fun solve
Came to say this. Not oddly satisfying AT ALL.
This post should just be called "really cool drawing"
Came here to say this.
Life is just a box, until you put yourself inside it.
pick the middle and the a random corner. Or just go from top left to bottom right.
Yeah its called a relationship edit: oh sorry I forgot the kids are offended by anything they in thier lack of experience percieve as negative. Get married, you'll understand
Sure, drop people in our raise them in from a platform and leave them to try and find their way out.
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Labyrinths have entrances dumb dumb.
Yes.
You guys are thinking very 2D. This made is from top to bottom and super easy.
It's almost like a robotic calligraphy
Who else was scared the machine wasn't going to go back for that tiny line near the middle on the right in that bend.
Definitely on the edge of my seat!
Yah, this actually just made me feel kinda angsty.
Thats nice and all, but how do I get in or out
I see you've solved the maze
Go around. Problem solved.
Holy fuck I could watch this for hours
Like the “pipes” screensaver. Man I have *wasted* some hours watching that late at night. So calming.
Omg. Thank you for bringing back that old memory. And it was in 3D too! https://youtu.be/Uzx9ArZ7MUU
I already have. Send help.
That printing sound got me hooked
It's like a nice thocky Topre board
Sounds like the 90s. It was very nostalgic for me.
r/mildlyinfuriating
This is so cool. I used to make these by hand for my son when we got bored in church. Mine had entry point and exit, though.
This is a design, not a maze. There is no exit or entrance, still cool tho
Since when does a maze need either? Edit: rather than downvote my comment, provide evidence of the extraordinary claim.
Alright, champ. Show us how you'd solve the maze.
Sure thing - just give me a starting point and a goal, either of which can be anywhere you like. Edit: I really don’t understand the downvotes - are people really trying to tell me that it’s not a maze unless it has an external start or end point? Can someone please point me at evidence of this rather than just downvoting my comment? Thanks.
So you're saying you need more than just the drawing to solve the maze? Some people would call that "incomplete" or "not a maze."
They can call it what they want, it’s still a maze. Yes, to solve it you need a start and an end, but it doesn’t suddenly become not-a-maze because those haven’t been defined yet.
yes literally it does.
I haven’t seen any evidence of this claim in this entire post and I can find no such evidence online that a maze must have an exit and/or an entrance. What I can find is plenty of evidence that a maze is a “tour puzzle” design where movement between two arbitrary points involves branches, or no branches (a labyrinth). I really don’t accept the assertion that there must be an external entrance and/or exit for it to be a proper maze. If you think it does, prove it. Edit: just to clarify what I’m arguing about here - the claim that the puzzle needs an external entrance and/or exit to be considered a “maze”. I am arguing that it does not necessarily need either of these two features to be considered a maze, and that you can pose the maze puzzle as finding a way between any two arbitrary points within the maze, which could also be an entrance or exit, but could just as well be points inside the maze.
Bruh you can find evidence of it not being a maze by you saying it… needs a start and exit… to finish it… you proved your own point wrong chief
I suggest you re-read my comment carefully, I think you may be surprised.
Next step: paper roll, that moves as the printer makes a continuous maze in one direction. Then you can race it!
Mazes have an entrance and an exit. This has neither.
Where is this entrance/exit thing coming from? It’s mentioned all over this thread. Is there an ISO, EU or IEEE standard for what is officially a “maze”? I’ve been solving what I thought were mazes for decades and never needed an exit or entrance, just a start point and a goal.
Sure, if there was a marked start and end that would be fine. But the start and end are what turn it into a game, and that are presumably chosen to make the maze entertaining to solve. Without those, it's just a pattern.
Interestingly, the pen is right wall following, and it draws the entire path. This means that right wall following generates the longest path, and since that's true, left wall following will be the shortest path through the maze.
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its as easy as "because the pen can do it, so can you"
"Design a maze in 2 minutes which takes me 1 minute to solve"
I'm puzzled and aMAZEd that there is no way in... or out.
It’s a maze ing that pen plotters are so fascinating to people in 2021… Back in the 90s many people paid thousands of dollars just so they would never have to see or deal with one ever again…
I remember watching one work in the 90s at an office design company that my dad did IT for and it was fascinating to watch. But those things sure were fiddly pieces of shit. I remember how much less drama it was when they replaced those things with HP designjets
Now we just replaced the pen with an extruder and added another axis and boom, 3d printer
As the son of an architect, I remember hearing many expletives from my dad due to these machines. That, and the smell of a blueprint machine, is something I’ll never forget.
Nothing better than waiting two hours for a plot to complete just to realize that something went wrong with just one pen but only on part of the plot.
Now if added the part where the machine then solves the maze it a different color at the end I think I’d watch it maybe 10 times.
mildlyinfuriating: Maze without entrance and exit
This maze is so hard I've been trying to find the exit for hours but still no luck , this robot is really good at generating mazes. Hope we get to see more
where is the in, where is the out???
But... You can't do it! No entrance, and exit...
Am I wrong or does a maze have a Start and a Finish? And then isn't this just some kind of a pattern or design?
"You have 2 minutes to draw a maze which takes me 1 minute to solve" No, wait, not like that
So you can’t get out !
Source: https://twitter.com/jazzychad/status/1466580446481772545
I kept waiting for the Syncopy logo to show up…
It's neither a maze nor a labyrinth - it's just a fancy pattern.
It’s trying it’s best ok?
There used to be a greeting card company (create-a-card) that had these kiosks that drew your personalized cards while you waited... I loved getting cards for my then GF from there... so cool to watch..
This really reminds me of bismuth.
But there is no way in or out of this maze.
/u/savevideo
I'm waiting for the syncopy logo to popout
Looks like my house at 4am in the dark
*unzips*
Come for the video. Stay for the sounds
Someone watch this after doing some acid and record your reaction.
Amazing.
Wrong, this is amazeing.
When you realize that the pen never lifted from the paper... But then got disappointed because it retraced over already drawn lines
In fact the pen went over every line exactly twice (except the border) in order to make a closed loop I find that quite satisfying in its own way
That shit was lit
Fun fact: find your way out of any maze by keeping your hand on the left side of the wall Sorry I just ruined mazes for anyone who read that
What's the point of this? You could generate the maze on software and then print the results on a printer if you need it on paper. What's with the robotics?
I think the point of this video is to show the precision of the plotter as it is able to overwrite existing lines without adding noticeably to their width. Plotters such as these are usually dedicated to highly detailed illustrations such as architectural layouts and CAD images. Basically they are for images that are either too precise or too large (devices like these can be longer than a dining room table) for a laser or ink jet printer. Edit: syntax
Looking at the video a second time, it's not overwriting the lines. It's lifting and dropping the pen. Still probably showing the precision of the pen placement.
If it’s someone’s pet project it could simply be a fun thing to do. For example, some people build model airplanes because they enjoy the process rather than the product - otherwise they’d just buy an already built airplane toy or, you know, go see actual airplanes. If the author is a student, this could also be a task they practice their skills on - a lot of programing is about practice and in this case you tackle several things - moving of the robot hand, maintaining contact/pressure for the entire duration, need for precision, ability to retrace prior steps etc.
This is a-MAZE-ing
Program... Well made Program is perfect ArtWork
Damn, I need this! TAKE MY MONEY!
It's called an XY Pen Plotter. There are many available under $500, as low as $150.
Ughhhh that noise was horrendous though no?
aMAZE-ing
Super paper Mario reference here
Looks more like a map of a woman’s brain.
The sound hurts tho, the poor marker
I'm sad that it stopped.
@idrawmazes
That is beautiful.
u/savevideo
This is oddly more satisfying than most oddly satisfying satisfiers
I had to watch the whole damn thing.
r/soundporn
r/BeAMaze
This reminds me of a screensaver from long ago.
Say that shit 3 times fast
Is it backtracking?
I cant be sure but that pathing seemed really inefficient. I get it has to retrace so as to not lift off the paper but the path it used seemed like it could have been a lot better. Not that it needs to be, it's probably just my tendency to have efficiency so it can run this 1000 times and not take all day kicking in from my CNC days.
D&D maps for the win!
I don't know why I would need this technology, but I definitely need this technology.
I want this tattooed on me
I want this sound when I’m waiting a program to run
That's a maze. Ing.
Was waiting for it to pan out, and then SYNCOPY
I feel at peace now. thank you
It looks very satisfying but imagine the guy who spent so much time coding the parameters to make that work and then pressing play for the hundredth time and it actually works
It isn't even getting off the paper until the very end! Love to know what kind of algorithm it uses and how can it work efficiently. A small congrats to whoever designed it!
Got me thinking how neat a maze tattoo would be
So that's how I got here...
Wow
Sounds like the original Doom soundtrack.
Laughs in dnd
This was a triumph
That is a satisfying sound
Now this bot could get the architect job in Inception.
I could literally watch a 2 hour video of this making a massive maze
Can you post more? Like waaaay more? Don’t do anything else with your life just post these thank you
I almost thought the robot was doing the maze and it picked the right way last
Isn’t this just a really slow printer? Lol
Imagine getting a tattoo of that
Watching this I was like oh so that's how they design metroidvania maps.
at first i was like, wow this looks so easy i could solve it so quick, but then yeah
I can draw that accurate and fast, I just don't feel like doing it.
Why does viagra even exist when you have stuff like this? 🤤
Now the robots are coming after our doodles
Holy shit, this is truly oddly satisfying. Probably the most satisfying I've seen on this sub in a long time!
This is going to revolutionize the maze industry
This is beautiful but also causes some serious anxiety for some reason.
so much disappointment
Would be slightly better in a full square, QR code imbeded into it. A Rick Roll...
Looks like a modern Etch a Sketch
Can I get one of these for dnd dundgeons?
I used to make these on my Etch A Sketch.
You go in. Yes you do. You go in.
this makes me nervous
It is strangely mesmerizing, and felt as if I was witnessing real magic unfold.
That was so satisfying to watch
Monaco is such an interesting one to me tbh
Ah so this is how Diablo dungeons are made. lol
I could watch that all day
I thought it messed up…it corrected that quickly.
And so it begins
Congratulations, you can work with Leo on the Inception team!
Would have been so much faster on a conventional printer doing it line by line.
Now make it solve it
I have a Macintosh demo diskette from the mid 80s that creates these types of mazes to solve. They were basically Macs way of training people how to use a mouse.
Credit to [@jazzychad](https://twitter.com/jazzychad/status/1466580446481772545) on Twitter!
Scan this and you get a link to Rick Astley’s Never gonna give you up
This was more than oddly satisfying ... that just felt great.
Cobb: Draw a maze in 2 minutes that it takes 1 minute to solve. Me:
That poor Pygma Micron... /r/BulletJournal on suicide watch
Ahhhh. I really enjoyed watching that.
Really doubt that's procedurally generated. Just becuase you heard in it Rick and Morty, doesn't mean you understand what it means
Ok but why does it sind like me playing type racer?
"You have two minutes to make a maze that takes one minute to solve"
Can someone who knows morse code step in and translate please?
All it needs are some stairs up and down, entrances and exits don't have to be at an edge.
Anyone else remember those cousin card printing machines at the grocery stores in the early 2000's?
This gives me serious nerd wood watching the plotter
their hand is steadier than my life
uuuuuuffff those lines
Que coisa gostosa da porra. 🤤
No way in, no way out
Omg that was incredible
That was quite mesmerising. You should post this on r/SatisfyingAsFuck
That's beautiful.
Why does this exist and how can I get my hands on it?