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by GavinAnderegg 77 days ago
This is a great list! A while back I also enjoyed reading “Mazes for Programers” and playing around with different maze generation algorithms from that book over a holiday break. The book isn’t super deep, but it has a fun set of projects and further ideas/reading as well. https://pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers/
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> The book isn’t super deep, but it has a fun set of projects and further ideas/reading as well.

Does it just regurgitate the well known maze generating algorithms? These generally do not lead to mazes interesting for humans...

The book starts with generating fairly standard mazes, but transitions to making more interesting ones in later chapters. There are 12 algorithms explained in the book (listed in the link above), and the author does care about making pleasant mazes.
couple that with the "the ray tracer challenge" book, and you can generate some pretty cool images :o)