Fields · Study 004
Ten Print Loom
The famous one-line maze, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)), rebuilt as an endless scrolling loom of diagonals. Your pointer biases the coin.
What you're looking at
Each cell holds one of two diagonal strokes, chosen by a coin flip. Rows are generated at the bottom and scroll upward, exactly like text on an 8-bit home computer. The corridors and dead ends you see are a side effect: no code here knows what a maze is.
The idea behind it
The original program fits on a single line of Commodore 64 BASIC and became a small cultural landmark, with a whole book written about it. It shows how much apparent structure the eye will find in a random binary texture once the two symbols connect at their corners.
Try this
Move the pointer left or right to change the odds of each diagonal. At the edges the maze collapses into stripes.
