Best use of Vision:

    Nick Johnson
    25 Harvey Tce
    Richmond
    Christchurch
    New Zealand

    http://www.notdot.net/


Judges' Comments:

    To build:

	make arachnid

    Try:

	./arachnid
	./arachnid arachnid.info

    The fun part comes when you realize that the maze scrolls.  The overall
    visual effect is quite pleasing (at least on some displays), and, well,
    it's a lot of fun.

    Navigation is through the use of the "wasd" inverted-T formation on
    Qwerty keyboards.  Rogue players, vi users, and Dvorak typists are
    invited to get lost!


Selected Author's Comments:

    This program accepts ASCII formatted mazes as input, and renders
    them onscreen for the user to explore, complete with Line Of Sight
    - you cannot see parts of the maze your avatar (the '@') could not
    have seen.

    The maze files will be interpreted with spaces ' ' as gaps, tilde
    '~' symbols (if any) as exits (which get represented as a NetHack
    style '<' once loaded), and any other characters as walls.

    Feed the program its own source for a default maze. Running it with
    no command line parameters will do this. In a nice symmetry, the 
    character constant '~' that recognises exits to input mazes itself 
    forms the exit to the default maze. Another maze, 'maze1' has also 
    been provided. This maze is 255x255, about the largest maze supported, 
    for the particularaly insane maze explorers out there.

    Usage:
    	./prog.c [mazefile]

    You can explore the maze using the w,a,s, and d keys.