Made it a little trickier

Added a few more paths to make the solution a little less obvious. Still have a ways to go to make it truly tricky, and still plan to add some visual features to make it more interesting looking.

Experiment with shadows

Added shadows to a recent pipe maze. While adding to the 3d effect, I think it actually flattened the image overall (not good). Something to work on.

Plumber's nightmare

More adventures with over and under pipes. When you drop down, you can go on either side below it.



I'm thinking that a good balance is to alternate sketching "real" objects, with "mind-only" geometrical mazes. Some of each should eventually yield some cool integrated designs.

Progress, and a see-through house

Did a little more work on the "pipes" maze. Felt a little easier to link them together, which is exciting in its own way.

Glancing through an architectural magazine this evening I saw a "see-through" house (only good for warm & dry climates, obviously). I sketched it from memory, then thought "what if I have a mouse digging around in the walls?" Could turn into something interesting.

"No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."

I set up a matrix of larger and smaller circles in between plays of NFL games today, and started to design a maze into it. Might try designing this straight to computer, too. Should work pretty well.

Better in color

I used some freeware Photoshop-like software to color in yesterday's maze. I like the result.











Also experimented a little more with yesterday's concept. Coming up with some fair ideas to pursue in following days.

Adding to an idea

Against my urge to come up with something new every day, I built on yesterday's "hedge" concept, but this time making them true rectangular tunnels and adding pipes to create alternate types of paths. Solid black was a nice choice, as I just drew the rectangular paths first, then filled in the black pipes over them - no erasing necessary (except for the part that I messed up badly). I might even try adding one more dimension to this concept tomorrow.

Less internal resistance

Today went much better. I reserved a "quiet room" at my local library for 30 minutes and went right to work, using yesterday's late-night session for the seed of an idea. A plane flying in from the left and branching off in many directions. Tried to introduce "3D" to the drawing, by making the width go narrower to imply going "back" into the page. Fair result for little effort.