Maze 5 is an open source project with the goal of creating a program to generate mazes of different sizes and styles. You can specify the cell size, the number of rows and columns, linewidth. You can also choose between different output formats.

You can download the sources it from Sourceforge or creating a maze online . The page Create-A-Maze shows you how it works. The parameters are explained here.

Maze 5 contains a standalone command line program for creating vector or bitmap maze files and a plugin for GIMP the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
http://www.gimp.org

• arbitrary sized mazes
• different carving algorithms
• file formats: pdf, svg and png
• background & foreground colors
• adjustable line width
• entrance & exit markers
• optional drawing of solution path
• using bitmap as template
• 30 different maze types

A pretty standard maze generated with:
maze5 -r 30 -c 30 -t 4 -S 1 -o orthogonal.png

A smiley maze:

And with the theta maze type in the new version 0.8 you can do something like this:

maze5 -S 444 -C 12 -r 30 -c 8 -m peace-mask.png -t theta -o peace.png

and with the solution path:
maze5 -P -S 444 -C 12 -r 30 -c 8 -m peace-mask.png -t theta -o peace-solution.png

The mask that was used:

And here is a voronoi cell based maze drawed in an organical way:
maze5 -t random-disc -S 444 -r 24 -c 24 –organic -o random-disc.png

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