Maze generator & solver · mercury-3
Output generated Cost / run $0.0190 Runtime 99.1s
Prompt for this run
Build a maze generator and solver visualization on a canvas. Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as needed. Write it to `index.html` in the current working directory using your file tools. Inline your own CSS and JavaScript. Do not use external assets, CDNs, or network requests. No third-party libraries are provided. Required behavior: - Generate a 25 by 15 cell rectangular maze using randomized recursive backtracking. All cells must be reachable, with exactly one simple path between any pair of cells. - Use the upper-left cell as Start and lower-right as Finish. Draw cell walls clearly and animate generation so carving progress is visible. - After generation finishes, animate either BFS or A-star exploring the maze, then highlight the complete path from Start to Finish. The path must cross only open passages. - Provide New Maze and Replay Solver. New Maze cancels the previous animation and generates a fresh maze; Replay Solver uses the existing maze without changing its walls. - Mark start, finish, exploration, and solution with distinguishable styles and a short legend. Verify: Inspect maze-carving progress and request New Maze while animation is active. Check that the new generation replaces the previous view cleanly. If the solver starts during inspection, check that its visible steps follow open passages.
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A single self-contained HTML file — copy it and open in any browser, or reuse the prompt with your own pi-agent run.
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Build a maze generator and solver visualization on a canvas. Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as needed. Write it to `index.html` in the current working directory using your file tools. Inline your own CSS and JavaScript. Do not use external assets, CDNs, or network requests. No third-party libraries are provided. Required behavior: - Generate a 25 by 15 cell rectangular maze using randomized recursive backtracking. All cells must be reachable, with exactly one simple path between any pair of cells. - Use the upper-left cell as Start and lower-right as Finish. Draw cell walls clearly and animate generation so carving progress is visible. - After generation finishes, animate either BFS or A-star exploring the maze, then highlight the complete path from Start to Finish. The path must cross only open passages. - Provide New Maze and Replay Solver. New Maze cancels the previous animation and generates a fresh maze; Replay Solver uses the existing maze without changing its walls. - Mark start, finish, exploration, and solution with distinguishable styles and a short legend. Verify: Inspect maze-carving progress and request New Maze while animation is active. Check that the new generation replaces the previous view cleanly. If the solver starts during inspection, check that its visible steps follow open passages.
I'll build this maze generator/solver visualization step by step. Let me start by checking the working directory and then write the complete self-contained `index.html`.
{"command":"cd /tmp/job-iTnPwd && pwd && ls -la"}/tmp/job-iTnPwd total 12 drwx------ 3 node node 4096 Oct 23 09:55 . drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 4096 Oct 23 09:55 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 node node 4096 Oct 23 09:55 .home
/tmp/job-iTnPwd/index.html (12842 bytes)Successfully wrote to /tmp/job-iTnPwd/index.html
Now let me run it in the browser and inspect.
{"action":"reload"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
The browser console is clean. Since I can't view images here, let me validate the algorithm's correctness with a Node harness that mirrors the exact logic, and drive the animation via the browser DOM.
{"command":"cd /tmp/job-iTnPwd && cat > verify.js <<'EOF'\n// Mirror of the maze logic in index.html (same functions) for correctness checks{ mkFail: 0, reachFail: 295, treeFail: 0, pathOK: 300 } Command exited with code 1
{"command":"cd /tmp/job-iTnPwd && cat >> verify.js <<'EOF'\n\n// independent flood-fill reachability check\nfunction floodReach(g){\n const{ mkFail: 0, reachFail: 295, treeFail: 0, pathOK: 300 } Command exited with code 1
{"command":"cd /tmp/job-iTnPwd && cat > verify2.js <<'EOF'\nconst COLS=25, ROWS=15;\nfunction makeGrid(){const g=[];for(let r=0;r<ROWS;r++){floodFail(should be 0): 0
{"action":"reload"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"sleep 1.3 && echo waited"}waited
{"action":"inspect"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"sleep 4 && echo waited"}waited
{"action":"inspect"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolved ✔ path visits 145 cells\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"reload"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"click","x":80,"y":584}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"click","x":80,"y":584}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"sleep 6 && echo waited"}waited
{"action":"inspect"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolved ✔ path visits 133 cells\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"click","x":210,"y":584}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolved ✔ path visits 133 cells\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"click","x":300,"y":655}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolved ✔ path visits 133 cells\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"click","x":368,"y":678}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolving…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"sleep 3 && echo waited"}waited
{"action":"inspect"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolved ✔ path visits 133 cells\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"reload"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"click","x":232,"y":678}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"sleep 5 && echo waited"}waited
{"action":"inspect"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolving…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"action":"click","x":232,"y":678}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nGenerating maze…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"sleep 6 && echo waited"}waited
{"action":"inspect"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolving…\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"sleep 6 && echo waited"}waited
{"action":"inspect"}{"console":[],"dom":"🌲\nMaze Generator · Solver\nSolved ✔ path visits 111 cells\nNew Maze\nReplay Solver\nStart\nFinish\nExplored\nFrontier\nSolution","images":"model does not support images"}
{"command":"cd /tmp/job-iTnPwd && rm -f verify.js verify2.js && ls -la && wc -c index.html"}total 28 drwx------ 3 node node 4096 Oct 23 09:57 . drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 Oct 23 09:56 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Oct 23 09:55 .home -rw-r--r-- 1 node node 12853 Oct 23 09:55 index.html 12853 index.html
Done. `index.html` (12.8 KB, self-contained, no external resources) is in `/tmp/job-iTnPwd/index.html`. **What I built** - 25×15 maze via randomized recursive backtracking (stack-based DFS, randomized neighbor order) — a spanning tree, so every cell reachable with exactly one simple path between any pair. - Start = upper-left, Finish = lower-right, marked as colored cells; walls drawn as crisp 2px rects over tinted cell fills; generation animates per frame showing carved region + current cell. - After generation completes, BFS animates (explored blue, frontier amber), then the solution path is revealed cell-by-cell green. - New Maze bumps an animation token (cancels whatever is running, generation or solver) and restarts generation; Replay Solver re-runs BFS on the existing grid without touching walls. - Legend with start/finish/explored/frontier/solution swatches; status line shows phase and final path length. **What I checked** - Algorithm validation in Node (500 runs): every maze is a spanning tree (edges = cells−1), flood-fill confirms 100% reachability from Start; BFS path endpoints are Start/Finish and every path step crosses only open passages (300/300). - In-browser: loaded page starts "Generating maze…" and finishes "Solved ✔ path visits N cells" with an empty console. Clicked **New Maze** during generation and again during solving — each time status flipped cleanly to "Generating maze…" and a fresh, different maze resulted (path lengths 133 → 111 observed, confirming replacement, not continuation). Clicked **Replay Solver** after completion — status went "Solving…" → "Solved ✔" with the identical path length (133), confirming walls were reused unchanged. No console errors at any point. **Not verified** - Actual pixel rendering (wall/color aesthetics, per-frame visuals): this model's browser tool returned no image frames, so I could not visually inspect the canvas output — verification was via DOM status transitions, console, and logic tests only. - Precise frame pacing in the headless environment (it runs slower than 60fps, so "New Maze during animation" cancellation was confirmed functionally rather than at a specific frame count).