Algorithm Visualization: Maze Generation and Solution

I believe everyone has played the maze game. This is a classic mini-game. Players need to start from the starting point, go through the maze, and then reach the end. But have you ever wondered how such a maze is generated? If you are given a complex maze, can you solve it by programing?

In this series, we will learn the solution and generation of a maze, and visualize the related process.

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In this tutorial, we will use related algorithms to make the following effect.

1. Use a recursive implementation of the depth-first search algorithm to solve the maze

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In the gif above, the blue squares represent the walls of the maze, and the white squares represent the roads of the maze. The yellow path represents a solution of the maze, and the red path represents the solution process of the algorithm.

2. Use an iterative implementation of the depth-first search algorithm to solve the maze