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[–] Camille@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

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Well... I was about to dive into bin packing and stuff. I started by pruning the obvious candidates (those which can fit all the shapes one next to the other, without more computation) so save CPU time for the real stuff. I ran my code on the real input just to see and... what to do mean there are no candidate left? I write the number of obvious boys into the website's input box, just to check and... Ah. I understand why people on reddit said they felt dirty x)

Anyway the code:

day12.go

package main

import (
	"aoc/utils"
	"fmt"
	"slices"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
)

type shape [3][3]bool

func parseShape(input chan string) shape {
	// remove the header
	_ = <-input

	sh := shape{}
	idx := 0
	for line := range input {
		if line == "" {
			break
		}

		row := [3]bool{}
		for idx, c := range []rune(line) {
			if c == '#' {
				row[idx] = true
			}
		}

		sh[idx] = row
		idx++
	}

	return sh
}

func (sh shape) usedArea() int {
	sum := 0
	for _, row := range sh {
		for _, cell := range row {
			if cell {
				sum++
			}
		}
	}
	return sum
}

type regionConstraints struct {
	width, height int
	shapes        []int
}

func parseRegionConstraint(line string) (rc regionConstraints) {
	parts := strings.Split(line, ":")
	dims := strings.Split(parts[0], "x")
	rc.width, _ = strconv.Atoi(dims[0])
	rc.height, _ = strconv.Atoi(dims[1])

	shapes := strings.Fields(parts[1])
	rc.shapes = make([]int, len(shapes))
	for idx, shape := range shapes {
		rc.shapes[idx], _ = strconv.Atoi(shape)
	}
	return rc
}

type problem struct {
	shapes      []shape
	constraints []regionConstraints
}

func newProblem(input chan string) problem {
	shapes := make([]shape, 6)
	for idx := range 6 {
		shapes[idx] = parseShape(input)
	}

	regionConstraints := []regionConstraints{}
	for line := range input {
		rc := parseRegionConstraint(line)
		regionConstraints = append(regionConstraints, rc)
	}

	return problem{shapes, regionConstraints}
}

func (pb *problem) pruneRegionsTooSmall() {
	toPrune := []int{}
	for idx, rc := range pb.constraints {
		availableArea := rc.height * rc.width
		neededArea := 0
		for shapeId, count := range rc.shapes {
			neededArea += pb.shapes[shapeId].usedArea() * count
			if neededArea > availableArea {
				toPrune = append(toPrune, idx)
				break
			}
		}
	}

	slices.Reverse(toPrune)
	for _, idx := range toPrune {
		pb.constraints = slices.Delete(pb.constraints, idx, idx+1)
	}
}

func (pb *problem) pruneObviousCandidates() int {
	toPrune := []int{}

	for idx, rc := range pb.constraints {
		maxShapePlacements := (rc.width / 3) * (rc.height / 3)
		shapeCount := 0
		for _, count := range rc.shapes {
			shapeCount += count
		}
		if maxShapePlacements >= shapeCount {
			toPrune = append(toPrune, idx)
		}
	}

	slices.Reverse(toPrune)
	for _, idx := range toPrune {
		pb.constraints = slices.Delete(pb.constraints, idx, idx+1)
	}

	return len(toPrune)
}

func stepOne(input chan string) (int, error) {
	pb := newProblem(input)
	pb.pruneRegionsTooSmall()
	obviousCandidates := pb.pruneObviousCandidates()

	fmt.Println(pb)
	fmt.Println(obviousCandidates)
	return 0, nil
}

func stepTwo(input chan string) (int, error) {
	return 0, nil
}

func main() {
	input, err := utils.DownloadTodaysInputFile()
	if err != nil {
		_ = fmt.Errorf("error fetching the input: %v", err)
	}

	utils.RunStep(utils.ONE, input, stepOne)
	utils.RunStep(utils.TWO, input, stepTwo)
}