There are at least 11 bands of this name.

1. MAZE (メイズ) an independe… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least 11 bands of this name.

1. MAZE (メイズ) an independent idol group formed in 2022. The group was formed by the former manager and former members of miscast after they left HYPER MEDIA NEET.

2. A 70s San Francisco, USA soul band, featuring Frankie Beverly (aka Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly). Soul / quiet storm band Maze was established in San Francisco in the early 1970's. The band can more or less be considered as the project of former The Butlers, and later Raw Soul, member Frankie Beverly; being songwriter, producer, arranger, singer, keyboardist and guitarist.

Frankie Beverly's smooth, distinct voice is instantly recognized, and Maze's laid-back, bass driven musical arrangements differ a lot from other soul acts. Their signature sound is especially vivid on the classic "Live in New Orleans."

Maze signed a contract with Capitol Records in 1976, and released their debut LP, "Maze featuring Frankie Beverly", in 1977. They had great success with the debut and the following albums "Golden Time of Day" (1978), "Inspiration" (1979) and "Joy and Pain" (1980).

Their most acclaimed recording is "Live in New Orleans" (three quarters of which was recorded at the Saenger Theatre November 14-15, 1980). By now the band had a reputation as one of the best live acts in American soul music, also enjoying a great following in United Kingdom. In 1989, they released the hit album "Silky Soul", the excellent "Back to Basics" album in 1993, and a live recording at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1994. In October 2005 Maze finished a U.S. tour.

3. A metalcore/progressive band from Sydney, Australia
Maze are a 5 piece melodic/metal/hardcore band from the Northern beaches of Sydney, Australia. They have released their debut album ‘Empires and Endings’ early this year. Maze are definitely a band to keep tabs on.

4. An alternative/metal band formed in 1996 in Sofia, Bulgaria originally named Priceless Crowns.
The band was originally formed as Priceless Crowns by Vasil Andreev (bass), Vasil Hristov (lead guitar), Kiril Iliev (drums), Yavor Kostadinchev (lead singer /guitar) and Georgi Ivanov (keyboard) in the fall of 1996 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.Still at school when the first songs came up as a result of the Seattle and Britt Pop wave at this time. Georgi, left the band few months later and under the heavy metal and Seattle underground influences The rest four members changed the course trying to perform a world class bands as Korn, Sepultura, Faith No More and at the same time Pearl Jam and etc.The Year 2000 marked a new Age for everyone and the name was changed to "Maze". The idea for the name Maze came from the different music influences they’ve had through the years and the complex mix of stylesThe beginning of 2008 came with another change - the brother of Stefan Stefanov (keyboard) - Dimitar (Gizdov) joined the band as a lead singer and short after that Vasil Hristov (lead guitar) left Maze.

5. A Chinese post-rock band from Beijing, formed in 2007. Also known by their Chinese name 迷宫.

6. a metalcore band from South Korea

7. A 60s US psychedelic band who released a single album, "Armaggedon"

8. A band from the Netherlands which released some EPs and a mini-CD called SOLDIERS OF SUBURBIA.

9. An Italian hardcore band active in the 1990s

10. An Israeli duo formed by DJs Roi Yamin and Tal Kerman.

11. Maze is also a punk/hardcore band from Mexico.

Can
Maze Lyrics

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No chains, no games, no blame
I really had to fade away
Fast train, my brain will explode
I'll never ever be the same
Few strangers, no danger
Freedom smells like there's no questions
Right now, I cry for the last time
Do you know how it feels to run and yet staying the same

You chase what you can't catch at all
Do you know how it feels to fight for what's already lost
How we did, I don't want more than I can give
I laughed, I cried, I was dancing
In the rain for you
Your face, so strange, no change
Like I'm not in front of you
Our bodies understood
But our souls spoke way different languages
Right now I smile for the first time
Do you know how it feels to run and yet staying the same
You chase what you can't catch at all
Do you know how it feels to fight for what's already lost
How we did, I don't want more than I can give
And I can't live in love that doesn't know how to fly
And I can't see the stars where there is no sky
Why the lies
Do you know how it feels to run and yet staying the same
You chase what you can't catch at all
Do you know how it feels to fight for what's already lost
How we did, I don't want more than I can give
Do you know how it feels to run and yet staying the same
You chase what you can't catch at all

Do you know how it feels to fight for what's already lost
How we did, I don't want more than I can give

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to the song "Can" by Maze seem to be about letting go and moving on from a toxic relationship. The opening lines suggest that the singer has decided to break free from the chains of this relationship and take off on a "fast train" to elsewhere. They are tired of playing games and assigning blame for what has gone wrong in their relationship. The chorus asks whether the listener knows what it feels like to try and chase something you cannot catch or fight for something already lost, indicating that the singer has been through this experience and does not want to repeat it.

The second verse suggests that the singer and their partner are physically attracted to each other but that they do not speak the same language on a deeper level. The use of the words "strange" and "no change" indicate that the partner has not grown or changed during the course of their relationship. The singer notes that while their bodies were attracted to each other, their souls were not in tune. The final lines seem to suggest that the singer is moving on and is no longer willing to live with a love that cannot fly, that is holding them down, and with lies.

Overall, "Can" seems to be a song about the singer's journey towards finding themselves and becoming independent from a toxic relationship. The lyrics convey an understanding of the challenging emotional journey that comes with leaving behind someone you've loved, yet at the same time, suggest that it is necessary for self-growth and emotional healing.

Line by Line Meaning

No chains, no games, no blame
There are no restrictions, no manipulations, and no accusations in this situation.

I really had to fade away
I needed to withdraw from this experience.

Fast train, my brain will explode
My mind is racing so fast that it feels like it will burst.

I'll never ever be the same
This event has irrevocably changed me.

Few strangers, no danger
There are a few unfamiliar people, but there is no perceived risk.

Freedom smells like there's no questions
The sensation of liberty feels like there is no need for further inquiry.

Right now, I cry for the last time
At this moment, I am mourning for the final time.

Do you know how it feels to run and yet staying the same
Have you ever experienced the sensation of being in motion but remaining stagnant?

You chase what you can't catch at all
You pursue something that is unattainable.

Do you know how it feels to fight for what's already lost
Have you ever struggled to retain something that was already gone?

How we did, I don't want more than I can give
I am content with offering only what I am capable of providing.

I laughed, I cried, I was dancing in the rain for you
I had a wide range of emotions, and I expressed them all for your sake.

Your face, so strange, no change, like I'm not in front of you
Your countenance seems unfamiliar, emotionless, and impersonal, as if I am not even present.

Our bodies understood but our souls spoke way different languages
We may have had physical chemistry, but our inner selves had difficulty communicating with one another.

Right now I smile for the first time
At the moment, I am experiencing happiness for the initial time.

And I can't live in love that doesn't know how to fly
I am incapable of existing in a romance that lacks freedom and growth.

And I can't see the stars where there is no sky
I can only perceive the beauty of the heavens where the air is unobstructed.

Why the lies
What is the motivation to deceive?

Do you know how it feels to run and yet staying the same
Have you ever experienced the sensation of being in motion but remaining stagnant?

You chase what you can't catch at all
You pursue something that is unattainable.

Do you know how it feels to fight for what's already lost
Have you ever struggled to retain something that was already gone?

How we did, I don't want more than I can give
I am content with offering only what I am capable of providing.

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Written by: Michelle Gebauer

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Body Rum UAE

@Me, Myself and I Up, down, left, right, top, bottom, forwards, and backwards are all relative. For me, 'up' would be 'down' to the people in Australia.

Also, "It depends on which two dimensions exist."

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For Dimensions 3-27+, I can't illustrate them here.

Dale Horton

I do have to give you credit, this video was brilliant timing with these growing questions about the nature of intelligence and problem solving.

"Solving a maze" appears to be a lot of work, a huge number of decisions that all must be made correctly, and at each decision point there may be a varying amount of information available about the rest of the maze. You can analyze the water in the maze this way, at this junction there is a pocket of air pressure preventing it from travelling out that way, at this junction it will pool until it overflows, etc, and talk about how it "solved" the challenge - but no "decisions" were made, it didnt "think".

i'm starting to wonder if a valid definition for life could be something wayyy more generic than we ever thought, like "A system that has the capability to act in an unexpected way in order to achieve a desired goal."

Which would mean a) AI is already alive, and b) its ungovernable once it has any kind of reward system, at least in terms of the alignment problem.

FWIW the "cheat" my statement relies on is that a "desired goal" implies that the agent has some element of self determination, which means that's the more atomic component here, and the true quandary.

ilovefunnyamv2nd

1y↑1

@Shining Darknessfor a vertical maze like the video, the water follows gravity, except for air pockets.

For a horizontal maze, the water will seek to be level across the entire maze, and leave through the entrance and exits of the maze. All the water would be flowing to one of those.

Now for a horizontal maze that spans several floors.... that's where it get's fun!
When you have a mix of both, The lower floors except for air pockets fill up first, then the upper floors find a level until reaching the entrance and exit of the maze.

If the maze entrance was on the lower level, and the exit on an upper level..... hmmm, I think the trick breaks.
Now you've also got to fill the maze with water faster than the entrance can drain it.
It's Like those algebra problems:
A funnel of 10 gallons is being filled with 2 liters of water per minute, and draining at 1.2 liters per minute, how long until the funnel is "full" ?

All comments from YouTube:

Steve Mould

1y↑1.5K

This video explains why I had a blue splodge on my face in the last video!
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Ronnie Dulaymi

52w

Didn’t watch video. Smurf spanky?

Dubya

Lol trying to scratch my head figuring out a good additional step to find the exit to a maze with multiple exits and I realized you’d just have to measure your distance traveled and create a mental map

Tyler

1y↑1

I'm adding this because I have not seen anyone suggest it! A way to recreate the original simulation would be to have an air-tight maze with two valves. One that pulls a vacuum on the empty maze and another that introduces water after the vacuum has been pulled and the other valve to the vacuum pump is turned off. In a perfect vacuum it would fill all the empty area with water.

Justin Loiacono

Just drill a small hole through the clear Plexiglas at the top of all the high points! Tada, No more air pressure resistance!👊

Seventh Nightsurvivor

You know all about creating smoke

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ElectroBOOM

1y↑17.8K

You know what I think can solve the puzzle flowing through the main path right away?? Smoke! Pushing smoke into the puzzle, it will flow through the path of least resistance from the start

MrKruger88

52w

Which is to say, air.

Gosh Strıke

Electricity works too!

Aluminium Mechanics

1y↑1

Or if the paths were electrical circuits, electricity would finish even the World's largest maze in under a second with a huge electroBOOM! (Pun intended =) )

Gebriel T

There is an old saying where am from.
A brave man and smoke will always find a way out

Dino Dude

@Matthew Clark perhaps the viscosimeter

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whoisit

1y↑1.2K

Directly to the experiments in less than 1 minute, now this is the channel that deserves to be popular.

DanX

Yeah just forward the video 9 waste of time minutes

unknown

its just straight to the damn point

Eft

1y↑5

i mean it kinda is, not everyone has 2m subs

jerronimo3000

1y↑40

Legitimately almost didn't click because I didn't want to sit through 8 minutes of "hype" for an underwhelming reveal at the end of the video.

This was not that, and I was pleasantly surprised

I_AM_AWESOME_j

1y↑944

the fact that a maze is two separate pieces blew my mind more than the water maze. It makes perfect sense but I have never thought of that!

Maxie boy

1y↑14

@Stephen just think about it: in order to have a solution to the maze you need at least one path that is “open”, so you can walk through it. To get that path, you need at least two un-connected pieces :)

MissVindicat

1y↑20

@Stephen If a maze has a solution than the line following the solution splits the maze in two separate parts.

tocan

1y↑7

@SajtosNokedli But never one piece

SajtosNokedli

1y↑7

It can be made of 3 pieces or 4 pieces or 5 pieces

Ega x Wandering

1y↑44

Oh, right, because one of them never touches the other.

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lqr824

1y↑164

5:28 Even in a multiply-connected maze (one with multiple successful paths), you can be sure that the walls of the ENTRYWAY will be the walls of the exit, as long as the entry and exit are on the outside border of the maze. I didn't realize that until you showed your "coloring the walls" at 2:50 then mentioned that two paths would create a middle part. That middle part won't be the left or right wall of the entrance, but would necessarily be an "island" in the middle. The interesting thing is that you can't just wander around and decide later to use this algorithm: you need to commit to it at the very entrance to the maze. And, it only works if the exit is also on an external wall, not say a stairs in the middle of the level, or say a goal or treasure of some kind not adjacent to an exterior wall.

TCXD11

1y↑2

@lqr824 yeah, I reread that more clearly after I already posted the reply, but oh well.

lqr824

1y↑1

@TCXD11 I explained that in detail.

TCXD11

1y↑1

Though generally not a problem, if you're starting from the middle of a maze (e.g. you're blindfolded and carried to the starting point, or you forgot to use the strategy until later), then there'd be no guarantee.

Pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug

1y↑5

This doesn't work in 3d mazes (multi-level)

sthenzel

1y↑139

The "keep your right hand on a wall" always works, IF you start doing so from the entrance!
A maze may have two or more paths to the exit and therefore has more than two wall structures, but it will always have just two outside ones.

runescaper1333

@The Hunters floating wall doesnt matter if you start outside the maze

HD

Note that it won't work if either the entrance or the exit (or both) is not at the edge of the maze, but somewhere inside the maze instead.

tocan

@The Hunters It doesnt matter if there are floating walls, what matters is that you go from the start

Christopher Wellman

I've always wanted to map the Paris Catacombs by spray painting a white line along the right wall.

The Hunters

@sthenzel I know. Just expanding on the conversation because that’s what I like to do.

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Chaz Hani-Okoroafor

1y↑48

I really think you should look into getting the big versions of the mazes into a gallery. They are really beautiful art pieces against that white background. The blue liquid is really radiant

Thomas Schmidt

1y↑1.8K

Realizing every maze has two halves was a surprising revelation I didn’t expect.

Zachelope

@Kevin Montie At least their family tree dont look like the 42nd parallel stretchin cross the globe

KuK137

1y↑3

@Kevin Montie Says someone who can't spell 3 letter word...

xI-MIKE-Ix

1y↑6

@Kevin Montie No way you're calling someone slow when you can't even write "you're" properly 😂

lucromel

1y↑1

There futurama episode 2-D Blacktop explains this with human anatomy too.

Alex M

1y↑3

If you think an average underground park lot as a maze, every pillar is an island/wall.

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Magrior

1y↑55

Definitely one of these concepts that I never would've thought about on my own but are really interesting if someone brings them up.
If you wouldn't mind the mess, you could maybe drill small holes near the top of the "air chambers", so the water could push the air out of the maze and get closer to bergman's simulation?

Nico#

1y↑4

and connect them to tubes pointing upwards so the pressure would equilibrate and you don't have blue liquid everywhere :)

Derek Hayes

1y↑19

Hi, great video, I love the mazes! I have a different hypothesis for why the water doesn't fully drain from the reservoir though (5:50), I believe it is likely that the maze is essentially creating numerous "P" traps that causes air bubbles between the different sections. After all the P traps are full, new water would have to compress the air in the bubbles to make room for the new incoming water, causing the resistance. Though if you added enough water pressure to push the air bubbles all the way through I bet you would get some proper syphon action!

Jake Aston

just like this video

Jake Aston

1y↑2

yep, heaps of airlocks
you get them all the time in caravan grey water pipes

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Chitus

1y↑36

This is fascinating, really nice work on constructing the mazes too.

PHOON DA YUAN Moe

1y↑11

Every now and then I find videos like these that are on more of the complicated side of things and they really intrigue me. It just scratches the right spot on my brain to keep watching

Static Builds

1y↑4

This shows the difference between physical and digital simulations. In digital there is always something overlooked like the ire pressure in this situation which is why its always important to test the digital one on a small scale first.

Mike Fochtman

1y↑6.8K

Regarding surface tension, try solving the smaller maze with 'wetter' water. Reduce the surface tension of water by dissolving some alcohol in it. :) Might be interesting with different fluids as well.

andy89135

1y↑1

Water confirmed wet

aaa aaa

@Steve Mould or heat it up

Kaushik Rao

Try it with mercury. It is expensive though

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Lazy DK

1y↑4

Regarding the 2 paths leasing to 3 walls you can 'hug'. It still works holding the hand on a wall, if you do so when you enter the maze. The 3rd middle part that loops wont be one of the walls at the entrance. So unless walls are shifting its a pretty safe approach

Tikkel Bikkel

1y↑14

What if the Bergman simulation is a bird's eye perspective of a maze with an open top that just being flooded?

Austin Anderson

52w↑1

Alpha Phoenix made a video showing that, it does fill everything but not like the sim

toml

52w↑1

It’s definitely a possibility, but I don’t think water would flow like that naturally. It would fill everything up at once instead of being moved by gravity downwards, and thus it would have to be slanted, but however this would cause it to not fill up the other parts. This is just a hypothesis tho so like it would be interesting to see if I’m correct

Jack

1y↑7

You could try substituting the water with some type sort of oil used in vacuum pumps to test the maze under a vacuum. The oil shouldn't be too hard to get your hands on and they all have very low vapour pressures

James Scholes

1y↑20

Possibly beyond the abilities of your laser cutter, but if you could make a membrane with holes which were small enough to let through air but not water you might be able to recreate the BergmanJoe maze that way. Lots of "air escape hatches"

GandalfsBeard

1y↑2

Or one could "lay down" the maze and leave the top open. All you'd need to make water flow in with some urgency is an upward slope (a funnel or an angled tube for example) at the entrance. One could also make a small ceiling (or height gate) at the entrance limting the height the water will reach, in order to avoid splashover. This may be less difficult to execute than laser cutting a membrane

Dr Basil

1y↑2

As a physicist, I must say that it looks oddly satisfying (and accurate). This is the first time I see this channel btw. Immediate subscription activated 😌

Bill Blair

1y↑1.2K

I had never thought of a maze being in two halves - and yet it's so obvious when you think about it! Steve is like the Johnny Ball of the digital age 🙂

Setekh, adept Lisaist

@David Guild "Not only that, but the solution is exactly the path between the two halves. (I think. Proving this is left as an exercise for the reader.)"

You don't have to prove it though, because it's true by definition. If there are more solution it's called a labyrinth. So if you're in a maze and you touch the wall of a middle piece and wonder around in circles, it's not a maze.

That's backwards. Labyrinths have a single path to the center. Mazes can have multiple paths and dead ends.

Body Rum UAE

Also, another critique on people's choice of words here, "two separate pieces" is not the same thing as "two halves". I rip a corner of a piece off a dollar bill. Are the two pieces then of equal portions of the same whole? No, the corner I rip off could be only 1/40th of the whole dollar bill, 1 of 40 is not half.

Body Rum UAE

@catmium "everal valves(at least 2) could solve the issue, as the food comes first valve would open and than closes until at least one other valve opens and closes again"

WE already have this in anatomy. They are called sphincters. We have dozens in the human body.

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Jay

1y↑7

It would be interesting to see pressure gauges in certain areas

My magnificent self

1y↑2

what a cool way to do science! i have to say that ive never thought about weather water could solve a maze but i was not expecting the results you came up with. a-maze-ing!

daWizardFrodo

1y↑11

6:00 not only just surface tension but as you said earlier for the small mazes, air pressure. The first lip looks impossible if no air prevents the water from moving. All the little pockets of air that you see have formed along the correct path (unlike the incorrect path in the small model, although there is still some of that) to help hold up that massive head of water.

Kawka Zlodem

1y↑2

You're right, I would even say that it's pretty much only about pressure, surface tension has very little impact here.

Pressure difference is nicely visible in the little siphon in the top right corner - free water surface is much lower on the right side than on the left which means that air pressure on the right is higher. And you can see why - because the air on the right is sealed off while that on the left can still escape (that happens in 5:30).

You can also nicely see how the air pressure grows in the whole sealed right part of the maze. In about 5:15 the right part is sealed off and then water goes further up to top left corner of the maze (reached at about 5:27) on the left side of that seal, and you can see how the free water surface on the right side also moves up but much less, just enough to reduce volume and increase pressure of the air trapped there so that it equalizes growing hydrostatic pressure of water column on the left.

Also, as the water stops flowing, the difference in height between tank above maze and surface on the other side of first siphon and that of to two sides of that column of water dividing right and left side are visibly similar (not exactly the same, because there are other siphons with uneven pressure on both sides).

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Hunting

I cant believe how many things I learned from this. I was not expecting this much from a "pouring water in maze" video! 😃

__

1y↑323

That last part is so interesting. Blue water has figured out the maze and now the red water can go directly to the end with virtually no loss

Paddington

water going through a straw doesnt flow anywhere near laminarly until there's an established path for a boundary layer to be created and negative pressure therein. Water introduced to a dry straw will bounce around chaotically until it fills in the straw and negative pressure established for a path of least resistance encompassed between boundary layers made. So a drinking straw is exactly the same as this maze, this maze isnt as straight forward as a straw, but acts in the exact same manner until a boundary layer and path of least resistance is created. Could even get some cool eddies formed where dead space with water pockets isnt exerted upon and creates stale water pockets, hense like keeping all the corners of the inside of an AC unit clean, where water can sit undisturbed even with an established negative pressure flow existing in the machine. Need to keep all the pockets of a system clean otherwise you can get Legionnaires disease and other respiratory issues.

Paddington

1y↑1

@Jan Bam the blue water filled in a "water column" like someone else above me said similar to a drinking straw, it basically created the most complicated straw imaginable but it's exactly that, a complicated straw, once there is an established path of least resistance, the water thereafter will flow in that path of least resistance, like a complicated straw, negative pressure pulling it through.

SpydersByte

1y↑7

@Michael Shanks of course the color doesnt matter lol does that really need to be said?

Michael Shanks

1y↑1

The “new” water has a better path, it doesn’t matter what colour it is. I wonder if there is anything interesting there based on size of maze.

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bocoy noiu

I like your videos, because of the way you present things. It's like the way I do things in my head. I love puzzles and mazes. Have you tried using a 3d printer to make the things

Burnt_Alive

This is pretty awesome, I now want to build something similar to mount on the wall in my shop/office as a water feature.

Anup nc

1y↑1

Great job Steve... I see all your videos.... And you explain a complex concept in easy way..... ❤️❤️

foxpup

1y↑1

If you "print"/etch a maze pattern on a circuit board and apply electrodes to the exit points and run electricity through it and look at it with a FLIR infrared scope you should see a solution too with the right settings. :-) (provided the the travel path is where the metal film remains and the walls are actually voids where the metal has been removed :-) ) The set up should have no trouble solving gigantic complex mazes, as big as the circuit board can be and with small channels down to the printing resolution. 🙂

Ash Walker

1y↑1

I don't know why the YouTube algorithm suggested this video to me, but I'm so glad it did. This is the kind of content I need more of

Kwaq84

1y↑918

There are couple of important things this experiment shows, especially when dye is added. It shows what happens when there are unused lines in water delivery piping (like for example building hydrants sharing same line with tap water). It can become breeding ground for bacterias, eg. Legionella, despite water moving, and that's why it's important to use backflow prevention valves.

Soken50

1y↑4

@It's The Sun Imagine replying with toxic reddit domains and a passive aggressive tone and thinking anyone else is a negative influence on their life.
Get off reddit and actually have a nice day. 🤗

It's The Sun

1y↑1

@Soken50 I think someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed..

I'm also muting any more replies from you because I don't need Negative Nancy in my life. Try to have a nice day 🙂

Soken50

1y↑3

@It's The Sun There was no joke. They definitely are, regardless of derailments.
Nice to know you use Reddit though 🙄

It's The Sun

@Soken50 r/whooosh

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MaqAv

1y↑2

very interesting, I'm glad I got here. I have a question: regardless of the erratic movement, there seems to be a pattern, however what would happen if the entrance/exit of the maze was at the left/right sides?

Adam Sharp

1y↑1

Thats so cool to see and a bit hypnotic I could marvel at water flowing for a long time having one of those mazes in a case with colored water cycling through it sounds like a fitting decoration for a high end office I want one it reminds me of my water timer for board games way more fun to use

Gachmara

1y↑1

I don't know if you have tried it, but can you simulate what would happen in a cave system if a storm appears?. A cave system with multiple levels, multiple different sections and several rises.

hernanc

At 2:38 how about creating grooves that match with the maze and flooding the grooves with solvent? Hope it helps in future videos. Thank you for the video Steve!

David Ellison

1y↑143

I loved the solution of cutting slots in the upper acrylic plate to allow the solvent to reach the surfaces you wanted to solvent weld.

rofltehcat

1y↑3

For the smaller maze, you can just fill a flat metal/ceramic tray with just barely enough solvent to cover the bottom. Then put the maze into it with the side you want to solvent weld. Leave it in there for like 10-30 seconds. Then take it out, and set it onto the panel you want to weld it to. Because the maze is so finicky, I'd still do the first side with the syringe.
This process works for all kinds of parts and actually tends to give a cleaner, more even, weld. However, since you're using laser-cut pieces you'll have plenty of micro-cracks in them after getting them into contact with solvent (unless you tempered them afterwards), they are probably just hard to see in the black acrylic.

For large pieces this works too but of course you'd need a pretty large tray (or one custom-made for the job) and a lot of solvent. You also don't need to actually submerge the pieces, just lowering them until the solvent pulls itself onto the welding surface is actually better (because it only coats the surface and because the solvent doesn't get squeezed out) but a bit finicky, you might be able to put some uncoated steel wires into it as an offset.

Source: Sometimes do this at work, but for most pieces the syringe method works just fine.

Dylan Green

You could make a liquid calculator for integrals. Might be interesting :)

Nissan Karki

1y↑5

I love how straightforward the video was. Thank you for getting right to the point and not wandering around.

sonicpowerYAY

Unlike ”cough” Vsause-

Tommy B

Your tests are great to be used by cave divers, people going deep underground exploring cave systems.
So that in case of storms outside and flooding in the caves, they ca use as a model to predict safe places for setting up camps.
I've seen a story about such a situation of a deep dive and a storm that lasted several days outside leading to huge flooding in the cave.

lance862

As someone who's explored a lot of computer game maps I will say the idea of putting your left hand on the wall and trying to just follow it almost always works but you can end up with geometries where it has you always avoiding the turn that you need to take so if you do that approach can you find yourself circling back to where you started switch to the other wall.

Jon Fehr

1y↑460

If you wanted to simulate the simulation you could put a small vent hole at the top of each isolated section of the geometry and then just cover/plug the hole once water starts leaking out of the venting hole. That should be easily done in the larger versions and you just need something like flex tape to cover the vents. it won't look as pretty but the physics should work.

I Teragami

@Jon Fehr Ionic liquids from "Siphon in a Vacuum - Periodic Table of Videos" can stay as a liquid even in vacuum, so we could replicate the simulation more closely

carlos gaspar

the simulation is like a model describing climate change while steve's is the real thing...

Joshua Pearce

1y↑2

A simple solution without potentially leaky valves is to have a "snorkle" on the outside of each section, which goes above the water input pool at the top. All the air goes out into the atmosphere, but the water can't rise above the garden hose input.

Max de Boer

1y↑1

you could also use some kind of breathable fabric for the backside of the maze (like Gore-Tex or eVent fabrics). GPT-4 also recommended Covestro's Platilon TPU film as a transparent option, for an air-permeable material that is waterproof (but I could not find much about it).

Psi Storm

1y↑2

@Syntox A liquid with a freeze point around room temperature could work. Once it escapes through those holes, it would freeze over and close the small exits.

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Goten

1y↑1

You're an amazing dude. Very wise with a great head on your shoulders. Thank you for your video's. They're amazing and so are you.

kar33m213

1y↑1

Hi Steve, just a thought- what about using an incense candle that the smoke drops town.....would be interesting to see how turbanalce would effect the gas/liquid effect as its in motion

Syntax58

I wonder how it would go if you could make the maze able to hold a vacuum, then you could more accurately recreate the simulation, either way it would be amazing to see how water behaves through a maze in a vacuum.

Thunderbelch

1y↑1

Lots of cool observations, well done!

mjw7994

1y↑388

Regarding using the "hand on one wall" method to go through a multipath maze, as long as you pick a wall right at the entrance then you should still always find your way out. Any extra paths would create a third piece to the maze, but by necessity it would have to be in between the two outer parts which must be the two parts bisected by the entrance and exit.

feha92

1y↑1

@DreadLindwyrm Don't forget the effect 3D has on mazes. Anyone who has been digging in minecraft knows the hand-rule doesn't work perfectly.

Spyhy

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Harry Genderson

1y↑1

Assuming the maze is finite, obviously.

Human Person

1y↑1

As long as you dont start inside the maze or finish inside the maze

X

1y↑5

Only works in a 2D maze, or, at least, a maze where the path is 2D. If it’s 3D the it’s very easy to have an “island” in the middle of the correct path which is hiding a ladder to the next level. If this island is totally disconnected from the walls of the first level path the all you’ll do is follow the path to the island, around the island, and back out of the exit.

You can easily see this in, say, Hogwarts legacy which includes small mazes where the goal is a chest at the centre of the maze. Sometimes the chest is in an island so you end up following the wall all the way around the outer layer of the maze and getting nowhere.

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upquark

i was lingering the entire time on this thing you said:
"the algorithm would be 'try all paths simultaneously, using air pressure' "..

can this be represented with path integrals? and is that equivalent to feynman's forumlation of QM? and can we finally just use mazes and water and air to settle that whole double-slit quagmire ?

:)

DJZofPCB

1y↑1

Is there a difference with the chamber being filled and released, as opposed to pouring it in? In terms of the incoming pressure from a full tank to less pressure while pouring? I'm assuming that the entry opening is the same width as the maze walls?

Cosmic Space

It really fits my ocd to see water or any liquid go through any maze I love the video great keep the content up

CM63

Hi,

Good points about the role of atmospheric pressure and surface tension. It should not be very difficult to take this into account in simulations as well.

Bryan Gilmore

It’s an air lock, there’s too many areas where- as you said before- have air bubbles that have to travel downward before they can go back up to make way for the water. This takes the momentum and flow of the initial pour and weight of water in the reservoir- at a certain point the momentum and weight of the water gets low enough, that the residual air pockets and pressure neutralize it and it stops flowing.

Donald Sayers

1y↑267

With your second complicated, big maze, I don't think it is surface tension but an air lock, the path repeatedly goes up then down so if there is a bubble in each up bit, it requires a minimum head of water to overcome the sum of the uphill parts.

Zictomorph

1y↑1

Yes, I bet the net height of water(hard to explain in short: maybe total height difference for each "pool") inside the maze equals the height of the reservoir.

Fred

@Bram van Duijn Yes, but at least in the larger mazes, the sum of the backpressures due to surface tension is nearly insignificant compared to the sum of the backpressures at the bottoms of all the water columns.

The water tension raises the surface level of the water at the exit of a water column, and thus the backpressure, by only a couple millimeters. That's only a small fraction of the backpressure caused by one single step up in a water column.

Donald Sayers

@Uldis Barbans Gravity.

Uldis Barbans

The bubble only stays in place because something is pushing against that air. From the "downhill" side. And maze's exit is not blocked. So what is pushing? That is surface tension. Just as he explained.

Uldis Barbans

@Kaboomf This is different. No reliance on siphon effect at all.

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David B

I have wondered about this for a long time. Wondered but never quite sure if I could build it. Thank you for building and showing it.
For the surface tension try adding soap.

natsuhiboshi

What a cool video, thank you for making this!

7cle

I did enjoy this video. Very much. You are clearly now a 80000 hours expert on building acrylic models !

hantasy Creations

1y↑1

Suggestion: AMBITIOUS idea with real life application... the air pockets remind me of the Tham Luang cave rescue, where 13 boys survived a monsoon in a cave system by finding the room with air. I never understood how there was enough air underground until this video. Could there be a way to 3d map cave systems and simulate flooding to find the safest places to survive in such events?

Navin Kumar

1y↑285

Flood fill just got real

Sam

How do I do flood fill with voxels as fast as possible

Yozo

1y↑4

Indeed

Kyle Miller

The two colors of water made me think it could be cool to see that but where the whole maze is completely filled with the first color. If you use a slightly more dense second liquid (salt water?) maybe that might simulate the animation through mixing?

STthecat

1y↑1

2:14 I like how water can’t solve the harder maze but the air bubbles can

cj van

An effective way of applying the acrylic solvent to the maze and the second clear sheet would be a very fine layer in a level metal pan. Holding the already applied acrylic side, dip the maze portion into the pan. Immediately lift it up and apply a slide rotational swirl to remove any gathered droplets. Then move the it, still maze down onto the s wall already placed on the ground. A simple corner frame can be built-in utilize to make a quick into make sure it is square. It has to be removed from the thin layer of solvent and place on the other surface quickly without any torque. Light pressure, then give it a few. Largely depending on the solvent use to melt the acrylic, this is a very effective method.

Владислав Быков

Thank you for the video. I will try to create a small labyrinth on a 3d printer with a transparent petg.
Perhaps I will try to make a version that will allow air to pass from one of the walls using a 10 micron fabric membrane.

du ich

beautiful to watch! much more than the simulated version

Bonzeaux Bleuxgrene

1y↑284

I had a similar idea when I was younger. I imagined a big rectangular one story building with only two doors, on opposite sides from each other, and endless hallways inside like a big maze. On a windy day, if you opened the two doors, the breeze through the building would naturally follow the correct path. You could just keep dropping a feather, or blow smoke to see which way to go.

Deeps

@Sammy M true but part of the problem was that they hit capacity really quickly

Sammy M

@Cadde I can assure you, at least in my part of the US, even the smallest ICU's and hospitals had quarantine rooms. Our step up hospital even had two. These had been in service long before I saw them, and I saw then roughly 2017

kindlin

@Cadde Also, air can go through a small hole or seem that you could never fit through. So, you might find an exit that you can't exit.

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ALottaMan

1y↑1

Could this approach be used to find the fastest route on a map between two points? What algorithms would it be better than? Which ones would it be worse than?

Michel Van Breugel

Regarding the effect of air pockets and surface tension. I think it is possible to minimize the effect of this, by angling the maze forward or backwards. This will reduce the height difference and allow the air pockets to pass the liquid by not utilizing the full channel width and or hight.

Mario

1y↑1

Why is your voice somewhat have a calming effect? Feels like I’m watching an ASMR.

Keep up the good work! Very interesting topic nonetheless!

Jay Geo

Next time you try to paste the second side, pour solvent in a flat plate, dip the side of the maze you want to stick and then place the acrylic sheet, no more missed gaps! Cheers!

Ian Gillespie

1y↑111

man, you really nailed the lighting on the larger mazes, the contrast of the "walls" is perfect

Minor Edit

1y↑1

Interesting that at 3:44 at soon as the air in the middle section is sealed off, the water starts to climb on the right side. Seems it gets quite significantly affected by the pressure differential.

Dale Horton

Wild Child

3:38 those laser cuts for the solvent was genius

Seth Yeak

This is with gravity, what about a maze on the side with a pump pushing the water through? Will that recreate Bermanjoe’s because you won’t have the air blocking the horizontal flow of water anymore. Of course in the off chance you are in a maze and want to use water to solve, a horizontal one would be better than a vertical one. What about flipping the maze upside down.
Appreciate the videos Steve, thanks

Mason

It's funny watching this as a software engineer because a lot of these different algorithms are used in machine learning. For instance the large simple maze takes the path that "takes you lower" and is actually a searching algorithm called depth first search used to find an end goal state.

LucasFroitzheim

1y↑603

I love by the way how you included the animation clip at the beginning but still motivated us to watch the original which supports its creator. Just love it

Redfyres ASOIAF

1y↑17

Also that he wasn't 'shaming' the animation creator (for lack of a better word) for not having realistic graphics but instead said things along the lines of 'he animated something I can't recreate'.

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Giulio Franco

Ok. If you track a maze with your hand, you either get to an exit, or back to the point where you started tracking. So, if you start tracking at the entrance, you won't loop forever. If you start tracking later, you should try to use a guard against loops.

Massimo Zanetti

Funny thing about solving mazes with water, it can be easily done also horizontally (you placed the maze vertically and let the water flow from top to bottom). Think maze walls as hills, and corridors as the valleys in between, let the water rain into the maze.... and boom, water will flow out following the perfect solution path. This can be implemented easily on computer progam using the watershed algorithm.

ViXoZuDo

you should try to do it with the maze almost horizontally like 5° with no top cover and higher walls... Just close the "entrance" so it became a container and should behave more like the simulation since you're removing the "air gap" variable.

chase tuttle

I'm curious what would happen if you drilled a hole in the back side of the air pockets to allow the air a path out. This might make a closer representation to the simulation.

Second, could you try this on a horizontal maze as well?

Justin Kay

Could you recreate Bergman Jones algorithm by starting with clear water filling every path and then flowing colored water through it? Is the algorithm simulating the propagation of the coloring? Getting the water to fill every gap in the first place may be a challenge.

Nerfherder42

1y↑120

This video actually made me realize that if you just try to visualize how the maze is in two pieces it becomes easier to solve visually. Pretty cool! I also think it works how a siphon works.

Sam

1y↑4

@howard baxter Yeah, but it might only be an internal door...

howard baxter

1y↑3

Which, by the way, knowing such information is good for you in emergency situations. If you are ever in a building under evacuation and it is pitch black inside, put your hand up against the wall and follow it. You will eventually reach a door and/or window.

howard baxter

1y↑4

It’s also why if you keep going right, or keep going left, you will always solve the maze. Unless, of course, the maze is broken up into more than 2 parts.

Kate

1y↑1

This is fun. I think this would be a great art instalation somewhere on a larger scale.

M.J. Nilsson

I tried to figure out in my head how would a laser behave if pointed into a maze made of mirrors, but I can't figure it out. Would the light have to eventually escape and would it help to guide you out with some added smoke?

just people

Just found this channel. Probably will be my only entertainment video i will watching for the next couple of week

Xtermo

I think the sim would probably be best recreated if it was possible to fill the maze completely with water first, then fill the top tank with colored water and finally open the exit of the maze, although the flow would probably not be as energetic as in the simulation, having water in its way already. 🤔

BlueCherry

imagine you get one of those mazes on the kids paper thing at a restaurant and you're like "hold on let me get the water"

macronencer

1y↑584

Love this! Mazes were "my thing" at school. We had exercise books with squared paper in them for maths, and I used to draw mazes all the time, so I became really familiar with a lot of stuff about them. The "stick to one wall" rule is a good window into some of them, as it makes you think about where the entrance and exit might be (could be in the middle), whether it still works with multiple entrances, whether there's a way to use it to escape a maze if you start in a random spot (there are algorithms that can eliminate dead ends as you go, but they require some sort of memory or external modification)...

A third dimension also stirs things up. The maze at Longleat in England (which was the largest in Europe in the 1980s, not sure whether it still is) has six bridges that go over the hedge paths. This allows you to see some of the connectivity from above, which people imagine might help - but the presence of the bridges also makes the topology more sneaky and the maze harder.

I LOVE MAZES! Cool to see your construction skills applied to them like this. Excellent video.

macronencer

@thewiseturtle Of course I realise that. This is why I was careful to use words like "if" and phrases like "for example" :)

thewiseturtle

@macronencer You're assuming a limited possibility for how mazes are made. I'm talking about mazes in general. Only one type has a continuous wall from start to finish (regardless of where those two are located). All other types have any numbers of separate walls inside.

macronencer

@thewiseturtle If the entrance and the exit are both on the perimeter and the maze is 2D then it should work every time. Otherwise, it depends on how it's all connected. For example, if your goal is to reach the centre and the centre is effectively a disconnected "island" surrounded by a loop, then it won't work. One strategy is to randomise your behaviour - just occasionally decide not to stay with the wall you've chosen but go another way. It could take a while, but in the end this will get you through.

thewiseturtle

@Chris aka Schulbus Yep.

Chris aka Schulbus

@thewiseturtle That was literally mentioned in the video. If there are multiple paths you can walk loops... therefore an "endless" wall you can follow.

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Don

Nodding donkeys are oil well pumps that look like nodding donkeys. I grew up with them in the southwest US and there are thousands of them in Texas. It is impossible to figure out how they work from what is visible without consulting articles and patents because the mechanism is deep in the well bore. They are simple but fascinating and millions are familiar with the surface part without knowing how they work. Perhaps you could model one? I enjoy your channel and just subscribed.

Mike

Drilling small holes in each 'top' corner to allow air to escape may allow you to recreate the behaviour in the simulation more closely, though would need to be quite small to provide sufficient resistance to water flow

Andrew

really cool video, i wonder what would happen if the maze exit was on the side and not the bottom.

Jordan MacLoven

Would using a gas denser than air work more like the video or would it be fairly similar to the water?

victor francio

hey, in this test that you presented, the water is suffering the action of gravity and in this way air bubbles occur, you could try to see how it happens if the maze is horizontal, maybe the wather it will flow diferently! Love the video btw!

T

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5:40
True,
if you only start using the 'hand on wall'-tactic as a backup plan, after you've already been in the maze for a while a multi-solution one can trap you.
Doing so from the start will work (for any 2 dimensional maze, where 'out the other side' is the goal. Get to the centerpiece artwork (or staircase to the exit-tunnel), are made out of 1 piece and may loop you back to the entrance )

YaboyNotNut

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Anna NA

1y↑36

If you're able to mark the walls in any way at all, if you loop back to the same point on the wall, you are following a center wall that doesn't connect to the entrance or exit. Switch to the wall opposite and follow that one. If necessary, just keep mapping these interior walls until you get to a wall that leads to the entrance or exit. I follow walls all the time in games to fully explore areas and find places I've missed. If you're in a maze in real life and you fear you don't have all the time in the world to walk around--definitely find a way to mark your exploration or break yourself out of there.

Crispy Joking Tuna

I’m curious what would happen if you added a surfactant to the tank of water after the surface tension stopped the flow (aside from the water in the tank flowing out)

Carde

It all follows a very logical process, the only thing I had not accounted for personally was the combined surface tension to be enough to halt the flow. I simply predicted a full empty beside the deeper areas or a stop of flow relatively quickly if no air could enter from above.

Michael Imbesi

1y↑1

It’s not surface tension that’s causing the maze to stop working, it’s vapor lock. The same thing can happen in piping systems when air gets trapped at high points. The air blocks part of the pipe and reduces the area that the liquid has to flow through. This constriction causes head loss and eventually the combined head loss across multiple constrictions becomes so severe that it equals the head pushing the fluid. This means that there isn’t enough pressure to move the fluid and the flow stops.

Logarhythmic

Would it be any different if the entrance and exit were on adjacent sides rather than opposite? Or if they were both on the top?

adam bamf

its a good tool for showing aquifer water behavior it also replicates a concealed aquifer with the tank being a river stream or lake pretty cool

Calvin Schubert

1y↑951

I actually used this once in a dnd campaign. Our DM put us in a huge mirror maze room. Using a combination of a few magic items, I made a torrential downpour of water and we waited a minute before following the flow

H. B.

Maybe because it's that I''m activity working on my world building but as soon as the red water went in the next thing that went through my mind was "how can I put this in my game?"

Shining Darkness

1y↑1

@ilovefunnyamv2nd Right, I'm not saying filling a flat one story maze wouldn't work, I am just saying making it a torrential rain won't fill a huge room fast enough to counteract the water just exiting through the entrance. The trick also only works if the exit is just open for the water to easily flow, if it is a door where the water can only seep through the cracks then the flow probably wouldn't be strong enough to detect even by placing something like a feather on the surface.

If you can seal the maze up to, say knee-high and the exit is relatively free-flowing the trick will work otherwise just do my method and start smashing through the walls or if it is in a space where apparently you can cause a torrential rain that probably means there is sufficient space above the maze to just fly over.

That said if you are my group and enjoy full-clearing dungeons you just go through the entire maze taking multiple sussions to do so and make the GM wish they never threw an entire maze (as opposed to one where they designed it so it is really more a series of skill checks to navigate) at the party.

ilovefunnyamv2nd

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Simon Sajan Kumar

Hey Steve
Just a thought. What would happen if you put the maze horizontally and “shot” water through the maze? Would the water solve the puzzle differently then?

36 Brix

Great video, I actually stopped the video, rewound it, and watched the whole thing with my daughters (one is in middle school, the other in upper elementary) In discussing with them, we wish you had put the exit point of the maze on one of the sides or the top along with the entrance, as those being different Variables, would possibly have a different outcome. In all reality, a Maze will always be solved with water as it will always exit if there is one. The real question might be, would water solve a maze without hitting a dead end, which may be 50/50 depending on where the exit is.

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