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Chrysanthemums are a good symbol for this era of my life. I've often ridden the edge of what is safe. On the day of this maze's completion, got bad news regarding a lingering medical diagnosis. My cancer has spread beyond the bounds of its origin. Well, shit.
While drawing this maze, I was studying the A* path finding algorithm. The pluggable architecture of my Python slime mold simulator made it easy to adapt to A*. Applying it to my older mazes, I began to see where A* has a difficult time. While, like the other search algorithms, it will eventually succeed, I decided to make A* waste as many compute cycles as I could. The algorithm has trouble with spiral pathways. The solutions of this maze are rife with nested spirals while the blind paths are long and deceptively direct.
Unfortunately, I'm faced with a maze I did not draw: our abysmal understaffed profit driven medical system. I'm cursed to walk a path I never willingly chose. I did not plan to have an autumn in my life, as a biker, I set up my life for early checkout. I find myself surprised and unprepared to be here.
Meanwhile, I'll just keep drawing as it grants me peace in a era that desperately calls out for it.
Meanwhile, my 2017 iPad is failing.
I want to keep drawing, but I'm going to have to replace it soon.
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