Stereographic projection maze

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When I first saw the incredible Stereographic projection, one of my biggest challenges was creating the stereographic projection with a self-generating maze. A year has now passed and it's finally complete. The customizer will generate a different maze every time you run it. You can input different values for the maze_rows parameter. The sphere radius would be block_width * maze_rows / 6. What the block_width parameter means is each block's width in the maze shadow, so is wall_width. The line_steps parameter determines the smoothness of the sphere surface. A higher value will get a more smooth surface, but it will also take more time for rendering a model. If you want to print it, I recommend using a slicing software that you can add support structures manually because some overhangs can't be detected when generating automatic supports. Trying a maze with a smaller maze_rows would be a good start. Once it's printed successfully, you may challenge a bigger one. :) One day, I hit upon a great idea. If we waive the maze algorithm aside, there exists an easy way to perform a stereographic projection in OpenSCAD. I published a thing based on the idea some other day. Find all my mazes in the collection "maze generators". Find my things about stereographic projection in stereographic_projection. Print Settings Printer: CR8 Rafts: Yes Supports: Yes Resolution: layer 0.2 mm Infill: 100% How I Designed This Do you want to know how to create mazes with OpenSCAD? The following documents may help. Manual maze Binary tree algorithm Random maze My library dotSCAD has a stereographic_extrude module. You can use it to create a thing of stereographic projection easily.