On the Subject of Painting Fractal Maze
Mac users shivering in their timbers...
The following algorithm describes how to utilize MS Paint functionality to solve the module.
- Home → Resize: Resize by pixels, Maintain aspect ration OFF, Vertical-64, Horizontal-64
- View → Zoom in (spam until max zoom)
- Home → Pencil. Use the top-left 2×2 pixels and paint them with colours from the module. Keep in mind that the sheet is white by default, although white on the module means all 3 transformations.
- Home → Select. Select the top-left 2×2 pixels. Now resize the selected box to be the size of the entire picture by dragging the bottom-right of the box to the bottom-right of the entire sheet (start dragging from the C3 pixel, not B2, because Paint is weird)
- Copy and paste the selected picture. Now resize it to 32×32 pixels and place over one of the 3 corners. Based on what corner colour you put it over perform the transformation (right click → rotate) on it (in RGB order, for each component present: R → flip vertical, G → flip horizontal, B → rotate 90° clockwise). Repeat for the other 2 present corners (using the original 64×64 picture from the start of the iteration (it is still supposed to be in your clipboard)). Once finished, your maze should look like a 4×4 pixel image (this is iteration 1)
- Now select and copy the entire new picture. This is the start of the new iteration. Perform actions from the previous step (assuming there are still 3 big corners with the same colours). Once finished, your maze should look like a 8×8 pixel image (iteration 2)
- Repeat the previous step once to get the final 16×16 maze (iteration 3)
- When the module decreases the iteration just use Ctrl+Z.