MazeSolver

A maze solver that scans a maze image and generate solution as gif or png image. A proof of concept that computer science can be used in real life application other than competitive programming (sarcastic).
Good for cheating in online maze puzzle solving competition when internet is not available.

Usage

• Open a terminal and run:
  ./mazesolver_(win|mac|linux).com.exe [input file] [output file] [duration] [space color] [block color] [source color] [destination color] [path color]
• duration: gif animation in seconds
• color: R,G,B from 0 - 255, separated by a comma

Example

• Scan the maze image "input.png", and generate "output.gif" that's 3 seconds long.
• Empty pixel has a color of (255,255,255) -> White
• Block pixel has a color of (0,0,0) -> Black
• Source pixel has a color of (255,0,0) -> Red
• Ending pixel has a color of (0,255,0) -> Green
• Path pixel has a color of (255, 0, 0) -> Red
• ./mazesolver_win.com.exe input.png output.gif 3 255,255,255 0,0,0 255,0,0 0,255,0 255,0,0

input.png (red spot to green spot)

output.gif

More Example

input.png
output.gif

Note

Input image format must be .png || .jpeg
Output image format must be .gif || .png
GIF renders at 25 frames per second.