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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Online Resources -- Part I-The Basics -- 1. Your First Random Mazes -- Preparing the Grid -- The Binary Tree Algorithm -- The Sidewinder Algorithm -- Your Turn -- 2. Automating and Displaying Your Mazes -- Introducing Our Basic Grid -- Implementing the Binary Tree Algorithm -- Displaying a Maze on a Terminal -- Implementing the Sidewinder Algorithm -- Rendering a Maze as an Image -- Your Turn -- 3. Finding Solutions -- Dijkstra's Algorithm -- Implementing Dijkstra's -- Finding the Shortest Path -- Making Challenging Mazes -- Coloring Your Mazes -- Your Turn -- 4. Avoiding Bias with Random Walks -- Understanding Biases -- The Aldous-Broder Algorithm -- Implementing Aldous-Broder -- Wilson's Algorithm -- Implementing Wilson's Algorithm -- Your Turn -- 5. Adding Constraints to Random Walks -- The Hunt-and-Kill Algorithm -- Implementing Hunt-and-Kill -- Counting Dead Ends -- The Recursive Backtracker Algorithm -- Implementing the Recursive Backtracker -- Your Turn -- Part II-Next Steps -- 6. Fitting Mazes to Shapes -- Introducing Masking -- Implementing a Mask -- ASCII Masks -- Image Masks -- Your Turn -- 7. Going in Circles -- Understanding Polar Grids -- Drawing Polar Grids -- Adaptively Subdividing the Grid -- Implementing a Polar Grid -- Your Turn -- 8. Exploring Other Grids -- Implementing a Hex Grid -- Displaying a Hex Grid -- Making Hexagon (Sigma) Mazes -- Implementing a Triangle Grid -- Displaying a Triangle Grid -- Making Triangle (Delta) Mazes -- Your Turn -- 9. Braiding and Weaving Your Mazes -- Braiding Mazes -- Cost versus Distance -- Implementing a Cost-Aware Dikstra's Algorithm -- Introducing Weaves and Insets -- Generating Weave Mazes -- Your Turn -- Part III-More Algorithms -- 10. Improving Your Weaving -- Kruskal's Algorithm

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