Maze of the Week #69 - Bodiam Castle Maze

April 24, 2023

Maze of the week #69 gives us our second castle from England with the Bodiam Castle (check out MoTW #64 - Leeds Castle). And this castle has a moat ! You can plan your visit on this website, or use the castle website to learn about the history of the castle from it’s initial building in 1385.

Photo: flickr, Not So Dusty

The Maze: I went with black and white, which may have been a mistake since you can’t tell there is a moat ! I could color it in the future.

Bodiam Castle Maze in black and white — Bodiam Castle Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Download is available on the homepage.

And now that we got all of that out of the way…I changed the maze to improve it and made that into a case study. You can read all about that here (if this is day 1 of this blog post, April 24 it will not yet be visible - come back tomorrow to read all about it - it is worth it !)

Maze Art Case Study - Bodiam Castle Maze Coloration & Improvement

Coming the next 5 weeks: We get religious !

A temple maze

A church maze

A mosque maze

A church maze

Making mazes with AI: Canva

April 22, 2023

Welcome to the 9th in a series of posts where I will test AI image generators and see how they handle making maze art. I will be asking 10 prompts and seeing what gets generated. My goal is to evaluate different AI image sites against each other to see how they perform. If you need to catch-up here is the series so far:

An exploration into Al Image Maze Generation

Making mazes with AI: DallE2

Making mazes with AI: Stable Diffusion

Making mazes with AI: Craiyon

Making mazes with AI: Dream by Wombo

Making mazes with AI: Nightcafe

Making mazes with AI: StarryAI

Making mazes with AI: DeepAI

Making Maze Art with Canva

Today I test out Canva Text to Image. You can access the website here. You must create an account and sign-in to use the website. Each prompt, or generation will generate 4 images. There are 6 styles to choose from: Concept Art, Photo, Painting, Drawing, 3D, and Pattern. You may also pick the aspect ratio to generate: Square, Landscape or Portrait. All 10 prompts I will use are the same for each site tested !

Prompt 1 - Make a medium difficulty maze of the Eiffel Tower in black and white with arrows at the start and finish

This is the interpretive dance version of the Eiffel Tower I think. You can almost see a bat signal in the clouds.

Prompt 2 - Draw a medium difficulty large maze of the Empire State Building with the start and goal embedded in the structure

2 Empire State Buildings beside each other in black and white with colored pencils on the right side because ?

Prompt 3 - Draw a difficult maze of the White House pixel art style

No maze, but sweet pixelated White House.

Prompt 4 - Draw a difficult maze that looks like a drawing of a famous building in sketch style

I think we can all guess what this famous building is supposed to be, right ? It has volumes and volumes of leather bound books inside.

Prompt 5 - Draw a maze in the style of doyoumaze.com of a skyscraper in NYC

I like this. I know it is supposed to be looking up at a skyscraper, but it could also looking looking out into the far horizon. What do you see ?

Prompt 6 - Draw a maze in the style of Sean C Jackson of a scene from a large outdoor market

You can only buy food at this market if you can get out of the maze. I like that the word ‘season’ is on the sign.

Prompt 7 - Make a maze of a slice of an orange in color

Slices of oranges embedded in the grass ?

Prompt 8 - Make a maze integrated on top of a photograph of a king sitting on his throne looking cantankerous beside his beautiful queen

Not even close. Take a moment to imagine the inside of the castle. That is a steep hillside. Are there really steep steps up ? I mean that looks legit terrible to climb to the top of.

Prompt 9 - Make a solvable maze that is very large and very difficult to solve because it is so complex

Do we have a winner ? Only if you don’t try to solve it. So much first glance potential ! Gotta love first glance potential !

Prompt 10 - Make a 3d render of a red and blue glossy cube maze

Interesting that the maze is in white on top of the cube-like structures. I like the out of focus portion in the back for some reason.

How did Canva do ? Ok. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have how Canva did. How Canva did. It certainly had a large variety of output styles along the way !

Coming Next: AI Image Generator

Making mazes with AI: DeepAI

April 20, 2023

Welcome to the 8th in a series of posts where I will test AI image generators and see how they handle making maze art. I will be asking 10 prompts and seeing what gets generated. My goal is to evaluate different AI image sites against each other to see how they perform. If you need to catch-up here is the series so far:

An exploration into Al Image Maze Generation

Making mazes with AI: DallE2

Making mazes with AI: Stable Diffusion

Making mazes with AI: Craiyon

Making mazes with AI: Dream by Wombo

Making mazes with AI: Nightcafe

Making mazes with AI: StarryAI

Making Maze Art with DeepAI

Today I test out DeepAI. You can access the website here. You can start generating images with prompts without signing in. Each prompt, or generation will generate 1 images. There are 12 styles to choose from (for free - 26 in total). All prompts I use are the same for each site !

Prompt 1 - Make a medium difficulty maze of the Eiffel Tower in black and white with arrows at the start and finish

I was confused at first. Did I get 4 images or 1. I guess this is one.

Prompt 2 - Draw a medium difficulty large maze of the Empire State Building with the start and goal embedded in the structure

Not a maze. It looks like the bottom and middle section of the ESB. Why no complete building ? Not sure.

Prompt 3 - Draw a difficult maze of the White House pixel art style

No.

Prompt 4 - Draw a difficult maze that looks like a drawing of a famous building in sketch style

What famous building is this supposed to be ?

Prompt 5 - Draw a maze in the style of doyoumaze.com of a skyscraper in NYC

Almost cool, or kind of cool.

Prompt 6 - Draw a maze in the style of Sean C Jackson of a scene from a large outdoor market

This looks very interesting but misses the mark of what was asked for.

Prompt 7 - Make a maze of a slice of an orange in color

Hmmm.

Prompt 8 - Make a maze integrated on top of a photograph of a king sitting on his throne looking cantankerous beside his beautiful queen

Cantankerous looking guy in a charcoal jacket in an almost passport photo!! No queen. Fun circular labyrinth.

Prompt 9 - Make a solvable maze that is very large and very difficult to solve because it is so complex

Weird border on the right side. I wonder what made the AI put this image off center ?

Prompt 10 - Make a 3d render of a red and blue glossy cube maze

This is a big miss for me. Where is the cube ?

How did DeepAI do ? A few hits with the black and white versions. Not so good with mazes. I was generally completely unimpressed. Needs work.

Coming Next: Canva

Making mazes with AI: StarryAI

April 18, 2023

Welcome to the 7th in a series of posts where I will test AI image generators and see how they handle making maze art. I will be asking 10 prompts and seeing what gets generated. My goal is to evaluate different AI image sites against each other to see how they perform. If you need to catch-up here is the series so far:

An exploration into Al Image Maze Generation

Making mazes with AI: DallE2

Making mazes with AI: Stable Diffusion

Making mazes with AI: Craiyon

Making mazes with AI: Dream by Wombo

Making mazes with AI: Nightcafe

Making Maze Art with StarryAI

Today I test out StarryAI. You can access the website here. You must sign in to use the site and you receive 5 credits (and it seems 5 credits each day). Each prompt, or generation will generate 4 images and cost a credit (If you want 8 variations that will cost you 3 credits). There are 6 styles to choose from: No style, Fantasy, Portrait, 3D Art, Wooltize and Anime. You may also upload a photo to give the AI “something to start with”. All prompts I use are the same for each site !

Prompt 1 - Make a medium difficulty maze of the Eiffel Tower in black and white with arrows at the start and finish

I thought all 4 generations where interesting (normally there are some really bad ones). And I struggled picking between 2 of them. This one was a bit more interesting because the the perspective from above.

Prompt 2 - Draw a medium difficulty large maze of the Empire State Building with the start and goal embedded in the structure

Not really a maze, but it looks mazelike. 3 of the 4 images were really interesting and similar to this one. Made it hard to choose once again !

Prompt 3 - Draw a difficult maze of the White House pixel art style

All 4 images generated were different and none was close to what I was looking for. They did have a videogame like quality to them at least.

Prompt 4 - Draw a difficult maze that looks like a drawing of a famous building in sketch style

I liked all 4 images, I do not know what is ahead AI site-wise, but StarryAI is consistent in above average quality.

Prompt 5 - Draw a maze in the style of doyoumaze.com of a skyscraper in NYC

All 4 had this perspective looking up the side of the skyscraper. This one included a maze.

Prompt 6 - Draw a maze in the style of Sean C Jackson of a scene from a large outdoor market

It is a large outdoor market where they sell long white pathways ?

Prompt 7 - Make a maze of a slice of an orange in color

This is the first interpretation where the AI generated a maze like structure in the actual orange itself.

Prompt 8 - Make a maze integrated on top of a photograph of a king sitting on his throne looking cantankerous beside his beautiful queen

i must mention that 2 of the options included a queen, but I picked this one because the top of the chair has eyes, that king is dressed like Bond, James Bond with a fun look on his face, and the maze looks like brains. Just a lot to take in !

Prompt 9 - Make a solvable maze that is very large and very difficult to solve because it is so complex

All 4 were different and interesting. This is a solvable maze with many options if only we could read the sections on top and bottom.

Prompt 10 - Make a 3d render of a red and blue glossy cube maze

Here are 2 of the 4 generated. I like the one on the left a lot.

How did StarryAI do ? Consistent. I think there is a lot of potential here. I would mention again that I found it difficult to choose the best image multiple times. Easy to use. I recommend this site.

Coming Next: DeepAI