Compose the maze
The writing is the plan. Each sentence becomes a corridor as long as itself; each [marker] becomes a fork where a named digression leaves the route.
Put [name] where a digression should branch off. The route carries on past it.
Each digression ends in a blind alley. A digression may hold its own [marker] (see recording → voice).
How this study works
v0.1 drew one fixed spiral with six stubs and poured text along it. v0.2 turns that around: the text is parsed into a tree of passages, and a small seeded generator lays each passage on a grid as straight runs, sized to the words they hold. Change a sentence and the corridor changes length; change the seed and the same writing folds a different way.
It is a multicursal maze — there are real choices and blind alleys — of the simplest kind: a tree with exactly one route from entrance to centre. It is generated, then checked: every passage reachable, every blind alley counted, no two corridors sharing a cell.
Export produces a standalone SVG with real, editable <text>, one element per straight run. No images, no fonts, no network.
Walk the text
The same maze as reading. Choose at each fork; a blind alley sends you back. Works by keyboard: Tab to a choice, Enter to take it.
Read the whole structure as plain text
Maze report
Recomputed from the drawn geometry after every change.