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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Day 14, got very lucky on this one, but too tired to think about why part 2 still worked.

spoiler

#!/usr/bin/env jq -n -R -f

#     Board size     # Our list of robots positions and speed #
[101,103] as [$W,$H] | [ inputs | [scan("-?\\d+")|tonumber] ] |

#     Making the assumption that the easter egg occurs when   #
#           When the quandrant product is minimized           #
def sig:
  reduce .[] as [$x,$y] ([];
    if $x < ($W/2|floor) and $y < ($H/2|floor) then
      .[0] += 1
    elif $x < ($W/2|floor) and $y > ($H/2|floor) then
      .[1] += 1
    elif $x > ($W/2|floor) and $y < ($H/2|floor) then
      .[2] += 1
    elif $x > ($W/2|floor) and $y > ($H/2|floor) then
      .[3] += 1
    end
  ) | .[0] * .[1] * .[2] * .[3];

#           Only checking for up to W * H seconds             #
#   There might be more clever things to do, to first check   #
#       vertical and horizontal alignement separately         #
reduce range($W*$H) as $s ({ b: ., bmin: ., min: sig, smin: 0};
  .b |= (map(.[2:4] as $v | .[0:2] |= (
    [.,[$W,$H],$v] | transpose | map(add) 
    | .[0] %= $W | .[1] %= $H
  ))) 
  | (.b|sig) as $sig |
  if $sig < .min then
    .min = $sig | .bmin = .b | .smin = $s 
  end | debug($s)
)

| debug(
  #    Contrary to original hypothesis that the easter egg    #
  #  happens in one of the quandrants, it occurs almost bang  #
  # in the center, but this is still somehow the min product  #       
  reduce .bmin[] as [$x,$y] ([range($H)| [range($W)| " "]];
    .[$y][$x] = "█"
  ) |
  .[] | add
)

| .smin + 1 # Our easter egg step

And a bonus tree:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn’t really know what they wanted in part 2, so…

lolI made a pretty shitty animation to render the bots and paused it when the tree appeared. This took me way longer than if I had just looked at the 10000 entry text file that I had already made. If I have the energy I’ll make a screen recording.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
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