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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ended up oversleeping somewhat, so I did the first part on the way to work using flood fills over a global visited set, and now that work's over I've sat down to expand that solution to do corner counting for part two as well.

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char[] map = new char[0];
(int X, int Y) size = (0, 0);

public void Input(IEnumerable<string> lines)
{
  map = string.Concat(lines).ToCharArray();
  size = (lines.First().Length, lines.Count());
}

Dictionary<HashSet<(int,int)>,int> areas = new Dictionary<HashSet<(int,int)>,int>();
public void PreCalc()
{
  HashSet<(int, int)> visited = new HashSet<(int, int)>();
  for (int y = 0; y < size.Y; ++y)
    for (int x = 0; x < size.X; ++x)
    {
      var at = (x, y);
      if (visited.Contains(at))
        continue;

      var area = Flood((x, y), visited);
      areas[area.Area] = area.Perim;
    }
}

public void Part1()
{
  int sum = areas.Select(kv => kv.Key.Count * kv.Value).Sum();

  Console.WriteLine($"Fencing total: {sum}");
}
public void Part2()
{
  int sum = areas.Select(kv => kv.Key.Count * countCorners(kv.Key)).Sum();

  Console.WriteLine($"Fencing total: {sum}");
}

readonly (int dX, int dY)[] links = new[] { (1, 0), (0, 1), (-1, 0), (0, -1) };
(HashSet<(int,int)> Area, int Perim) Flood((int X, int Y) from, HashSet<(int X, int Y)> visited)
{
  char at = map[from.Y * size.X + from.X];

  (HashSet<(int,int)> Area, int Perim) ret = (new HashSet<(int,int)>(), 0);
  visited.Add(from);
  ret.Area.Add(from);

  foreach (var link in links)
  {
    (int X, int Y) newAt = (from.X + link.dX, from.Y + link.dY);
    char offset ;
    if (newAt.X < 0 || newAt.X >= size.X || newAt.Y < 0 || newAt.Y >= size.Y)
      offset = '\0';
    else
      offset = map[newAt.Y * size.X + newAt.X];

    if (offset == at)
    {
      if (visited.Contains(newAt))
        continue;

      var nextArea = Flood(newAt, visited);
      ret.Area.UnionWith(nextArea.Area);
      ret.Perim += nextArea.Perim;
    }
    else
    {
      ret.Perim += 1;
    }
  }

  return ret;
}

readonly (int dX, int dY)[] cornerPoints = new[] { (0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1) };
readonly int[] diagonalValues = new[] { (2 << 0) + (2 << 2), (2 << 1) + (2 << 3) };
int countCorners(HashSet<(int X, int Y)> points)
{
  int corners = 0;
  var bounds = findBounds(points);
  for (int y = bounds.minY - 1; y < bounds.maxY + 1; ++y)
    for (int x = bounds.minX - 1; x < bounds.maxX + 1; ++x)
    {
      var atPoint = cornerPoints.Select(c => points.Contains((x + c.dX, y + c.dY)));
      var before = corners;
      if (atPoint.Where(c => c).Count() % 2 == 1)
        corners++;
      else if (diagonalValues.Contains(atPoint.Select((c, i) => c ? (2 << i) : 0).Sum()))
        corners += 2;
    }

  return corners;
}

(int minX, int minY, int maxX, int maxY) findBounds(HashSet<(int X, int Y)> points)
{
  (int minX, int minY, int maxX, int maxY) ret = (int.MaxValue, int.MaxValue, int.MinValue, int.MinValue);
  foreach (var point in points)
  {
    ret.minX = Math.Min(ret.minX, point.X);
    ret.minY = Math.Min(ret.minY, point.Y);
    ret.maxX = Math.Max(ret.maxX, point.X);
    ret.maxY = Math.Max(ret.maxY, point.Y);
  }

  return ret;
}