At the beginning of the year I decided to try a maze design experiment where I take one maze and then design it in as many ways I can think of. I also kept finding new filters to use in the software I design in, Inkscape. I also mixed in a bit of text to image AI to see how it fared. This is my recap of the experiment.
We start with the original maze:
I ended up making 125 variations of this maze of the course of 25 blog posts. I pulled them together into 5 groups of 25 so you can see them all. If the structure lost the maze…it is probably AI generated.
What I learned during this experiment:
Inkscape is full of filters and you will never know what they do unless you experiment with them.
There sure are a lot of filters that distort whatever image you make.
As I learned in other experiments, Text to Image AI is not able to keep the maze structure while adding design themes to it.
The color combinations you can use are infinite and I think color is the most impactful I think.
I really enjoy playing with depths and shadow. Some of my favorite mazes were the shadow and rotation ones I made.
I found that I like to use this post for inspiration and reference when I am designing new mazes. Feel free to do the same !
After a time it becomes difficult to come up with new ideas. Then you come with ideas that take a long time to create. I am sure with enough time and effort I could make 200+ more variations, but I was ready to move on to other things.
I was going to pick my favorite mazes - but it changes depending on my mood. Hopefully you can find a favorite !
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