Everyone loves a good visualisation, share any visualisations that you have created here.
I know I’m late, but I’d thought, I’d share some of my day 12 visualizations I wanted to see.
Here’s my shapes with symmetries:
Here’s some of the solutions found in a greedy manner:
The visuals are terminal based, for simple cells I used two spaces with colored background and for solutions I also used braille symbols to better delineate distinctions between cells.
In 16-bit real mode assembly, as a hybrid DOS .COM program and BIOS-bootable disk image. With bonus palette animations! I had the hybrid thing going on before (see the repo), but this is the first time getting something animated.
Repo | day07.com (12 KB) | full video
That’s awesome, is it just random paths?
Well it uses the input of course but I found that if you make it truly random, the lines mostly go down in a straight line, all bunching up in the middle, which isn’t very pleasing. So now the beams have a “current direction” which has a 25% of flipping at every splitter
I used a u8, one bit per level to do mine, but because not all bits correspond to a splitter, it ends up duplicating a lot of the paths. Which is why I made the lowest bit at the top, so it flip-flops a lot, giving the appearance of multiple different paths :D
If I understand correctly, your visualization shows up to to 256 unique paths then?
In this one, every time the beam passes a splitter, the other side is put on a queue, so eventually all possible paths are traced, breadth first. Initially I worked through the options recursively, but that depth-first filling out was boring to look at.
Yeah, max of 256 paths, and if there were no holes in the splitter layout, it would be the full 256. Also why i had to limit the depth to 16 layers, more than that and the brute forcing gets a bit silly.
If took more code to animate this than it did to solve the problem…
Looks very nice for the test data:
And…okay…for the live data:
I like the coloring, really cool!
Thanks, 'Tis the season.
Its very festive :)
That certainly doesn’t reflect my mood today.
Thats cool! What are the colours meant to signify?
Christmas, I guess :) (I just pick a random colour each time a roll is removed)
Day 7 - Colourised, single image.
Video of each path (for the short example, dont think i can do the long one) https://youtube.com/shorts/jLpiUOSIiNw
That’s day 7, right?
Its all a blur…
Colorised video: https://youtube.com/shorts/H_Fmf1rupGg
