Day 10: Hoof It

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  • Rin@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

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    Maaaannnn. Today’s solution was really something. I actually got so confused initially that I unknowingly wrote the algorithm for part 2 before I even finished part 1! As an upside, however, I did expand my own Advent of Code standard library ;)

    Solution
    import { AdventOfCodeSolutionFunction } from "./solutions";
    import { Grid } from "./utils/grids";
    import { LinkedPoint } from "./utils/structures/linkedPoint";
    import { makeGridFromMultilineString, SumArray } from "./utils/utils";
    
    class TrailPoint extends LinkedPoint<number, TrailPoint> {
        constructor(x: number, y: number, item: number, grid: Grid<TrailPoint>) {
            super(x, y, item, grid);
        }
    
        lookAroundValid(): Array<TrailPoint> {
            return this.lookAround().filter(v => v.item == this.item + 1);
        }
    
        findAllValidPeaks(): Array<TrailPoint> {
            if (this.item == 9)
                return [this];
    
            // filter for distinct references (this theoretically saves time)
            return [...(new Set(this.lookAroundValid().flatMap(v => v.findAllValidPeaks())))];
        }
    
        findAllValidPeaksWithReps(): Array<TrailPoint> {
            if (this.item == 9)
                return [this];
    
            // don't filter
            return this.lookAroundValid().flatMap(v => v.findAllValidPeaksWithReps());
        }
    }
    
    export const solution_10: AdventOfCodeSolutionFunction = (input) => {
        const map: Grid<TrailPoint> =
            makeGridFromMultilineString(input)
                .map((row) => row.map((item) => item != "." ? Number(item) : -1))
                .map((row, y) => row.map((item, x) => new TrailPoint(x, y, item, undefined!)));
    
        map.flat().forEach((v) => v.grid = map); // promise is a promise
    
        const startNodes: Array<TrailPoint> = map.flat().filter(v => v.item == 0);
    
        const part_1 = SumArray(startNodes.map(v => v.findAllValidPeaks().length));
        const part_2 = SumArray(startNodes.map(v => v.findAllValidPeaksWithReps().length));
    
        return {
            part_1, // 557
            part_2, // 1062
        }
    }
    

    Full code here.