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Seven years later, in 1983, the maze was finished. Nomura stashed it in his ... intricately detailed labyrinth on a sheet of A1 paper, resembling, perhaps, the world's most nightmarish subway ...

2001-2008: Coordinate Math to the Rescue Imagine a sheet of graph paper. Now imagine that a ... The smaller footprint let him add more paths to the finished maze, until the 2009 maze---a portrait ...

Here, maze cutting is still designed and executed the old-fashioned way, by using a lot of graph paper and elbow grease. The Treinens do not use GPS or a professional maze cutter. "We're always ...