Infinite Refraction
This is an open-source implementation of Infinite Refraction, a research project experimenting with automatically generated puzzles and progressions. It's based on the math puzzle game Refraction. If you just want to check out Infinite Refraction now, you can view the game online here.
How do I use this
There are two parts of this project:
- A puzzle generator that uses logic programming to produce puzzles with hard constraints on solutions
- A version of the Refraction game player with a dynamic progression that uses these generated puzzles. This player has a lot of extra UI to illustrate how the progression is created.
File Structure:
generator/contains the code used to generate puzzles.game/contains a HTML/JS game player and the progression generator.puzzles/contains pre-built sets of puzzles.
Quick-start without running the generator
Getting the generator running is a bit complex, so the full set of generated puzzles is included in puzzles/generated.txt.
You'll need Python 2.7 installed. Run the following commands to get the pre-built puzzles into the game player:
cp puzzles/generated.txt game/puzzles.txt
python2.7 ./generator/runner.py package < game/puzzles.txt > game/puzzles.json
Browsers will probably block some of the files if loaded locally, so you'll probably need to launch a web server to play the game. There's a lot of options for this. For example, with Python 3:
cd game/
python3 -m http.server 7777
Then navigate to http://localhost:7777.
Generating puzzles
Puzzles are generated using Answer Set Programming (ASP), specifically, the Potassco Project tools clingo and clasp.
Requirements:
- A POSIX shell
- Python 2.7+
- clingo 3 (NOT 4, this relies on the 3-only feature
--reify) - clasp 3.1 with thread support (or any disjuctive version. You can actually use clingo 4 for this with
clingo --mode=clasp)
Scripts will use the environment vars CLINGO3 and CLASP for clingo and clasp,
respectively. By default they are clingo and clasp. Everything can be run using bin/runner.py. So, to generate a sample puzzle:
./generator/runner.py sample
This should dump some JSON that represents a Refraction puzzle to standard out if everything is working.
Generating the puzzles takes a very long time. The included puzzles/generated.txt contains over 9000 puzzles, generated on a computer cluster over an hour. So rather than generating them all at once, the system break the process down into multiple phases. First, generate a set of configuration files with
./generator/runner.py configure
which will populate generator/configs/ with several thousand files that specify different potential puzzles. Then, a puzzle can be generated for a particular configuration n with
./generator/runner.py generate <n> >> game/puzzles.txt
This can be done in parallel for each configuration, the final result is a simple cat of all of the outputs. The resulting file should have one puzzle (as JSON) per line. These puzzles can be examined interactively with game/viewer.html, assuming game/puzzles.txt exists. Finally, the puzzles can be packaged up for the game player with
./generator/runner.py package < game/puzzles.txt > game/puzzles.json
and played by opening game/index.html using a web server.
Copyright and license
All files, unless otherwise marked, are copyright 2015 Eric Butler, Adam M. Smith, and Erik Andersen.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.
The files meta.lp and metaD.lp in generator/metasp/ are part of the Potassco's metasp and released under the GPLv3.
Copyright original authors.
The game viewer includes several JavaScript libraries in game/lib/.
Their respective licenses are included with the code.
Copyright their original authors.
References
Related research: