Introducing the Wallpaper Maze
An apparently infinite maze to download, print and solve on paper
What initially triggered my (latest) exploits in maze design was my idea to use mazes as interesting textures for the repeat patterns I was designing for textiles, wallpapers and the like. For that purpose, the mazes had to be seamlessly repeating, but I still wanted them to be ‘perfect mazes,’ ie have no loops or isolated areas and one unique solution connecting any two points within the maze.
Enter what I call the Wallpaper Maze.
Download Checks Maze from the drandanArt Downloads page.
(ready-to-print A4 PDF; unconditionally free to download, no email or membership needed)
The Checks Maze was one of my first wallpaper mazes and serves well to illustrate how these seamlessly repeating mazes work.
Because I prefer my surface patterns to look quite uniform, I like to obscure the pattern repeats as much as possible. But with some colourcoding we can make it more obvious that the pattern is made up of an irregularly shaped ‘perfect maze’ that is replicated across the pattern repeats, both horizontally and vertically.
Of course, the whole pattern is no longer a ‘perfect maze.’ And with the two little start- and end-markers added to this printable version, it is not, strictly speaking, a repeat pattern any more, either. But it should still be quite a fun maze to solve anyway…
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There are more printables – colouring mazes, colouring pages, and more art mazes – available for free on the drandanArt Downloads page. All downloads are free and unconditional, with no email or membership required.
On the same website (drandanArt | andygiger.com) you will also find more info and links to the original art and designs that these printable art mazes are based on.