Answer by stefano for Representing and solving a maze given an image

Here you go: maze-solver-python (GitHub)

I had fun playing around with this and extended on Joseph Kern's answer. Not to detract from it; I just made some minor additions for anyone else who may be interested in playing around with this.

It's a python-based solver which uses BFS to find the shortest path. My main additions, at the time, are:

1. The image is cleaned before the search (ie. convert to pure black & white)
2. Automatically generate a GIF.
3. Automatically generate an AVI.

As it stands, the start/end-points are hard-coded for this sample maze, but I plan on extending it such that you can pick the appropriate pixels.