3D Mazes in Java
by James L. Dean

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Java executables and source (48K)

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Here is an amazing fact. The number of mazes that can be composed of l rows and m columns of square rooms where any two rooms are connected by a single path is the same as the number of spanning trees in an l x m rectangle. This number is given by Richard W. Kenyon, James G. Propp, and David B. Wilson in "Trees and Matchings" in the The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 7 (2000), #R25 as follows:

This number increases rapidly as the number of rows and number of columns increase.
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