Day 11: Cosmic Expansion

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  • @[email protected]
    2•11 months ago

    I saw that coming, but decided to do it the naive way for part 1, then fixed that up for part 2. Thanks to AoC I can also recognise a Manhattan distance written in a complex manner.

    Python 
    from __future__ import annotations

import re
import math
import argparse
import itertools

def print_sky(sky:list):
    for r in sky:
        print("".join(r))

class Point:
    def __init__(self,x:int,y:int) -> None:
        self.x = x
        self.y = y

    def __repr__(self) -> str:
        return f"Point({self.x},{self.y})"

    def distance(self,point:Point):
        # Manhattan dist
        x = abs(self.x - point.x)
        y = abs(self.y - point.y)
        return x + y

def expand_galaxies(galaxies:list,position:int,amount:int,index:str):
    for g in galaxies:
        if getattr(g,index) > position:
            c = getattr(g,index)
            setattr(g,index, c + amount)

def main(line_list:list,part:int):
    ## list of lists is the plan for init idea

    expand_value = 2 -1
    if part == 2:
        expand_value = 1e6 -1
    if part > 2:
        expand_value = part -1

    sky = list()
    for l in line_list:
        row_data = [*l]
        sky.append(row_data)
    
    print_sky(sky)
    
    # get galaxies
    gal_list = list()
    for r in range(0,len(sky)):
        for c in range(0,len(sky[r])):
            if sky[r][c] == '#':
                gal_list.append(Point(r,c))

    print(gal_list)

    col_indexes = list(reversed(range(0,len(sky))))
    # expand rows
    for i in col_indexes:
        if not '#' in sky[i]:
            expand_galaxies(gal_list,i,expand_value,'x')

    # check for expanding columns
    for i in reversed( range(0, len( sky[0] )) ):
        col = [sky[x][i] for x in col_indexes]
        if not '#' in col:
            expand_galaxies(gal_list,i,expand_value,'y')

    print(gal_list)

    # find all unique pair distance sum, part 1
    sum = 0
    for i in range(0,len(gal_list)):
        for j in range(i+1,len(gal_list)):
            sum += gal_list[i].distance(gal_list[j])

    print(f"Sum distances: {sum}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="template for aoc solver")
    parser.add_argument("-input",type=str)
    parser.add_argument("-part",type=int)
    args = parser.parse_args()
    filename = args.input
    if filename == None:
        parser.print_help()
        exit(1)
    part = args.part
    file = open(filename,'r')
    main([line.rstrip('\n') for line in file.readlines()],part)
    file.close()