Entombed 🥴

Who wants to do a Rorschach test? 😄

Maze generator based on the "misterious" Entombed algorithm.

What is it?

This program generates different mazes based on the cellular automaton found in Entombed Atari 2600 Game.

It could be used to explore different cellular automata generation for the mazes.

How can I use it?

To generate a maze simply execute the script

The script has many configurations, such as disabling of symmetrical generation with -S

To get a list of configurations use the switch -h or --help

You can reconfigure the cellular automaton rules using the parameter -R. You can refer to the help to get the usage of this parameter. For example

$ ./entombed.py -R 1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0 -p

Generate the following rules

And mazes similar to this one

Generate avatars

The script can generate custom avatars, simply use the --output flag choose colors and size, similarly to the following example:

$ ./entombed.py -c 5 -r 10 -t -F 0xfff00c --output-scale 30 --output /tmp/lol.png

The command will generate a 300x300 png image similar to this one:

In which you can see a lot of things, depending on your ego and, well, I'm not a Psychologist.

Thanks

This work is based on the work "Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game" by John Aycock and Tara Copplestone published in The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 2019, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Article 4

You can find the work at arxiv