A program to solve simple mazes. The mazes are given in a file and the program must read in the file, solve the maze, and output the solution.

1. Running The Application
2. Maze Input/Output Formats
3. Maze Input Format
4. Maze Output Format
5. Movement
6. Horizontal Wrapping
7. Vertical Wrapping

In order to run the application either build it at the command line using: mvn clean compile package

or, download the compiled application from the releases page.

Once you have the maze-solver-1.0-RELEASE.jar, run it from a command window using: java -jar maze-solver-1.0-RELEASE.jar

Follow the on-screen instructions once the application is running.

A plain-text file where:

• 1 - denotes walls
• 0 - denotes passageways

The file is laid out like so:

<WIDTH> <HEIGHT><CR>
<START_X> <START_Y><CR>
<END_X> <END_Y><CR>
... grid of 0's and 1's

A 10x10 grid with starting coordinates (1,1), and ending coordinates (8,8).

10 10
1 1
8 8
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

The output is a representation of the maze with a marked path from start to end where:

• # - denotes a wall
• whitespace - denotes a passageway
• X - denotes the path
• S - denotes the start
• E - denotes the end

The solution to the 10x10 grid example.

##########
#SXX     #
# #X######
# #XX    #
# ##X# ###
# # X# # #
# # XX   #
# ###X####
# #  XXXE#
##########

Valid moves are N, S, E, W only, with no diagonal movement allowed. Moves in any of these directions will be blocked by maze walls, which are identified as 1's in the input file. The edges of the grid should not be considered as walls unless specified, and allow for wrapping movement.

10 10
1 1
8 8
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 
1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 
1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 

##########
XS# XXXXXX
  # X#####
# # X    #
# ##X# ###
# # X# # #
# # X    #
# # X ####
# # XXXXE#
##########

10 10
1 1
8 8
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 
1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 
1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 

#X########
#S#       
# # ######
###      #
# ## # ###
# #  # # #
# #      #
# ### ####
#XXXXXXXE#
#X########