Cultural History of Mazes
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| − | Pickover also includes a section on "the largest computer-generated maze in the world," a title which seems quaint by today's standards. Although he notes the program could generate an 1000-page maze, he sites the largest one she had printed to date as a 200-page maze. However, he gives the title to the 1987 maze produced by Walter Pullen. This 23-foot maze had to be stored on "eight floppy disks" and "require one megabyte of disk space" (7). | ||
| − | Needless to say, this quest for the largest computer-generated maze will always be chasing 10-Print, whose never ending corridors can be drawn merely by executing and repeating that line. Presumably these other mazes are single-solution mazes. However, Moore's law no doubt affects maze production at about the same rate that 1 megabyte diminishes as a sign of large memory. | + | Pickover also includes a section on "the largest computer-generated maze in the world," a title which seems quaint by today's standards. Although he notes the program could generate an 1000-page maze, he sites the largest one she had printed to date as a 200-page maze. However, he gives the title to the 1987 maze produced by Walter Pullen. This 23-foot maze had to be stored on "eight floppy disks" and "require one megabyte of disk space" (7). Pickover later adds an followup note from Pullen about a maze he had generated with "@2 miles of passages" that "stretched over 3031 pages" (8). |
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| + | Needless to say, this quest for the largest computer-generated maze will always be chasing 10-Print, whose never ending corridors can be drawn merely by executing and repeating that line. These other mazes, such as Pullen's, are single-solution mazes. However, Moore's law no doubt affects maze production at about the same rate that 1 megabyte diminishes as a sign of large memory and the number of pages in a maze print out approaches absurdity. | ||
