One Maze - Many designs - experiment #15

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, then The first 5 experiments and so on with a new post every Friday, or just enjoy the ride.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

I have been thinking about distractions a lot lately. I blame the pings on my phone. As far as mazes are concerned, a bad background can be very distracting while I good one can improve a maze.

I used Inkscape to play around with backgrounds this week. The maze is the same in each version.

  • The first maze was made using 3 large circles which intersect and overlap.

  • The second maze was inspired by quilts again. this version is more colorful than a past version I made.

  • The third maze uses 2 simple triangles to color the background.

  • The fourth maze seems to have caught a virus of small colorful dots.

  • The fifth maze is a grey checkerboard background.

What did I learn from this experiment ? The dots are very distracting. The checkerboard and quilts also mess with your eyes. The large design backgrounds are fine - no issues with distraction at all for me, they are just colorful backgrounds to enjoy.

One Maze - Many designs - experiment #14

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, then The first 5 experiments and so on with a new post every Friday, or just enjoy the ride.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

I used Inkscape for this batch to play with the outer edge only. Nothing fancy, and I kept the internal consistent for each version.

  • The first maze I made the outer walls bubbled.

  • The second maze I used the outer wall triangulated.

  • The third maze uses a few variations on the outer edge mixed up. Any could be used around the edge exclusively.

  • The fourth maze has an expanded edge off the edges of the page which makes the start and goal extended.

  • The fifth maze has an outer bubble edge.

I think each of these options make the maze look different. Not sure how I would use this in the future, but the option exists.

One Maze - Many designs - experiment #13

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, then The first 5 experiments and so on with a new post every Friday, or just enjoy the ride.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

I found a few more filters in Inkscape that I had not used yet.

  • The first maze is from a filter called the Stone Wall. It ended up widening the walls and distorting the maze, but kept the maze.

  • The second maze is a filter called Jam Spread. It seemed to give the lines a metallic look.

  • The third maze is a filter called Goache. I would call it crumpled paper.

  • The fourth maze is called Cracked Glass.

  • The fifth maze is called Bark. I am going to have to try this in brown on a tree.

In the end this distorts many of the mazes, but kept them mazes at least.

One Maze - Many designs - experiment #12

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, then The first 5 experiments and so on with a new post every Friday, or just enjoy the ride.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

I played around with what the lines were made of again in this iteration of mazes.

  • The first maze I made all of the lines into Ants following one another.

  • The second maze I made all of the lines out of footballs or soccer balls depending on where you live. Either way it is the ball for the top sport in the world.

  • The third maze uses a variety of vegetables, using carrots, asparagus, and 2 types of squash.

  • The fourth maze can be hard to see, but I used a type of dash, but rounded the ends so they overlap onto each other. This gives it a bubbled line look.

  • The fifth maze is similar in that it used dashes that are spaced farther apart, but still touch. It reminds me of the skinny balloons a clown might make animals out of.

Just playing around this week. You can make the lines out of many things.