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Python Flow Free Bot 10 - Detailed Analysis & Overview

Making significant progress now, the program can finally output a solution board that a human could easily read and draw out. I realised half way through recording this video the first time that I could change my method slightly to remove my dependence on ... Extremely long, but you can skip to the end if all you're interested in is seeing it work. I try my best here to explain the process of ... Just a really quick announcement video, you can find all the code for this series over at ... This exceeded all my expectations by far and i haven't even added in the old heuristics yet. I will upload a video of all the levels ... Just an update to where the project is at, it now can solve most of the boards but now it sometimes makes mistakes so I'm hoping ...

Fixing this gives us yet another HUGE boost to performance and we can now easily solve any board up to 9x9 we throw at it. Again a lot of misclicks but no mistakes, took a while on some boards but I expected this, 9x9 I expect to take at least an hour to ... Few optimizations in this one, plus I add logic to join ends together so Longer video, this time we look at starting the logic for checking our forced moves and implementing the function. Lots of cuts in ... Admittedly some of the levels will be impossibly long to compute, but hey it is a completely universal solution for all In this video we begin to add constraints to our recursions, the first one is simple but I think they are going to start getting quite ...

No coding in this one, but I let it run through all the 150 starting levels and see how many it can do. Next up is trying to improve the ...

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Python 'Flow Free' Bot #19 - HUGE improvements!
Python 'Flow Free' Bot #15 - Adding in riskier methods
Python 'Flow Free' Bot #20 - Spotting a small bug
Python 'Flow Free' Bot #19.2 - Solving 8x8 boards
Python 'Flow Free' Bot #9 - Creating logic to detect ends joining up
Python 'Flow Free' Bot #8 - Getting into the thick of it
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Python 'Flow Free' Bot #17 - Starting to add in constraints
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Python 'Flow Free' Bot #10 - Printing out solution boards

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #10 - Printing out solution boards

Making significant progress now, the program can finally output a solution board that a human could easily read and draw out.

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #6 - HUGE improvements

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #6 - HUGE improvements

I realised half way through recording this video the first time that I could change my method slightly to remove my dependence on ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #11 - ITS ALIVE!!!

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #11 - ITS ALIVE!!!

Extremely long, but you can skip to the end if all you're interested in is seeing it work. I try my best here to explain the process of ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot Code Now on GitHub!

Python 'Flow Free' Bot Code Now on GitHub!

Just a really quick announcement video, you can find all the code for this series over at ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #19 - HUGE improvements!

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #19 - HUGE improvements!

This exceeded all my expectations by far and i haven't even added in the old heuristics yet. I will upload a video of all the levels ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #15 - Adding in riskier methods

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #15 - Adding in riskier methods

Just an update to where the project is at, it now can solve most of the boards but now it sometimes makes mistakes so I'm hoping ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #20 - Spotting a small bug

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #20 - Spotting a small bug

Fixing this gives us yet another HUGE boost to performance and we can now easily solve any board up to 9x9 we throw at it.

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #19.2 - Solving 8x8 boards

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #19.2 - Solving 8x8 boards

Again a lot of misclicks but no mistakes, took a while on some boards but I expected this, 9x9 I expect to take at least an hour to ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #9 - Creating logic to detect ends joining up

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #9 - Creating logic to detect ends joining up

Few optimizations in this one, plus I add logic to join ends together so

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #8 - Getting into the thick of it

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #8 - Getting into the thick of it

Longer video, this time we look at starting the logic for checking our forced moves and implementing the function. Lots of cuts in ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #18 - First universal flow free solver so far!

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #18 - First universal flow free solver so far!

Admittedly some of the levels will be impossibly long to compute, but hey it is a completely universal solution for all

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #17 - Starting to add in constraints

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #17 - Starting to add in constraints

In this video we begin to add constraints to our recursions, the first one is simple but I think they are going to start getting quite ...

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #13 - Seeing what it can do

Python 'Flow Free' Bot #13 - Seeing what it can do

No coding in this one, but I let it run through all the 150 starting levels and see how many it can do. Next up is trying to improve the ...