Fun with Spirodoodle

These are doodles I made with the Spirodoodle app on my iPod touch. It's a lot of fun. I guess these are ideas for mazes, but I don't know if or when I'll use them.

Braided Maze

I found this maze in some old papers, finished it up, and colored it. I had fun making this, so I hope it will be fun to solve!

Corinne's Maze

My little sister Corinne drew this awesome maze a while ago, and I scanned it to put up here. As you can see, she has learned well from the master.

Wicker

Based on the weave of some wicker furniture, specifically an old rocking chair we used to have. I guess most kids don't sit and analyze the weave of their furniture, but I did, and now I've made a maze based on it!

Rose Window

Probably the nicest looking of my mazes, yet possibly the hardest, and a big favorite. Based on the fancy circular stained-glass windows often found in cathedrals.
Drawn freehand, without using a compass or tracing any circles. Also without measuring the distance around, which is why there's one loop that's off (see if you can find it).

Alternate Colors

Black & White

Solution

Easter Egg

Yes, this was drawn directly on an egg while the rest of my family was using normal Easter egg dye. I made a page on my other site that lets you turn the egg around with a little javascript, which I haven't gotten to work on this site yet.








Solution

Eddies in the Space-time Continuum

"Ah," nodded Arthur, "Is he. Is he." He pushed his hands into the pockets of his dressing gown and looked knowledgeably into the distance.
"What?" said Ford.
"Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then?"
-- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

Actually, I originally called this maze "Snails", but that seems so undignified, and "Eddies" reflects the swirliness better. I doodle circles a lot, using the 3-point rule (if you have any three points in a plane, you can make a circle), and I can fill up whole sheets of paper with circles that touch each other at only three points, so this was kind of a version of that, but with spirals instead of plain circles. All freehand.




Solution

Snowflake

My brother cut this snowflake out of paper for Christmas, and I defaced it with my maze mania.

Black & White

Solution

Ripples

Probably one of the awesomest of my mazes, and one of the ones I spent the most time on. Again, I draw the circles freehand without tracing or using a compass. The pattern is meant to represent ripples from drops of water flicked in a pool.

Black & White

Solution

Starburst

One of my favorite little mazes, for the shape and because I used more of the open-air concept.


Black & White

Star of David Tesselation

This was very fun to draw, but I had to touch it up a lot afterward to straighten the lines (I don't always use rulers either). I love tesselations and other geometrical oddities like the work of M.C. Escher.



Colored Version 
(not my favorite, but it might be easier to see)