Fractal Art — Python — #adventofcode Day 21

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Series: Advent of Code 2017
Tags: [Technology] [Learning] [Advent of Code] [Python]

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This post is part of the series Advent of Code 2017

Today’s challenge asks us to assist an artist building fractal patterns from a rulebook.

→ Full code on GitHub

!!! commentary Another fairly straightforward algorithm: the really tricky part was breaking the pattern up into chunks and rejoining it again. I could probably have done that more efficiently, and would have needed to if I had to go for a few more iterations and the grid grows with every iteration and gets big fast.

Still behind on the blog posts…

import fileinput as fi
from math import sqrt
from functools import reduce, partial
import operator

INITIAL_PATTERN = ((0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1), (1, 1, 1))
DECODE = ['.', '#']
ENCODE = {'.': 0, '#': 1}

concat = partial(reduce, operator.concat)


def rotate(p):
    size = len(p)
    return tuple(tuple(p[i][j] for i in range(size))
                 for j in range(size - 1, -1, -1))


def flip(p):
    return tuple(p[i] for i in range(len(p) - 1, -1, -1))


def permutations(p):
    yield p
    yield flip(p)
    for _ in range(3):
        p = rotate(p)
        yield p
        yield flip(p)


def print_pattern(p):
    print('-' * len(p))
    for row in p:
        print(' '.join(DECODE[x] for x in row))
    print('-' * len(p))


def build_pattern(s):
    return tuple(tuple(ENCODE[c] for c in row)
                 for row in s.split('/'))


def build_pattern_book(lines):
    book = {}
    for line in lines:
        source, target = line.strip().split(' => ')
        for rotation in permutations(build_pattern(source)):
            book[rotation] = build_pattern(target)

    return book


def subdivide(pattern):
    size = 2 if len(pattern) % 2 == 0 else 3
    n = len(pattern) // size
    return (tuple(tuple(pattern[i][j] for j in range(y * size, (y + 1) * size))
                  for i in range(x * size, (x + 1) * size))
            for x in range(n)
            for y in range(n))


def rejoin(parts):
    n = int(sqrt(len(parts)))
    size = len(parts[0])
    return tuple(concat(parts[i + k][j] for i in range(n))
                 for k in range(0, len(parts), n)
                 for j in range(size))


def enhance_once(p, book):
    return rejoin(tuple(book[part] for part in subdivide(p)))


def enhance(p, book, n, progress=None):
    for _ in range(n):
        p = enhance_once(p, book)
    return p


book = build_pattern_book(fi.input())

intermediate_pattern = enhance(INITIAL_PATTERN, book, 5)
print("After 5 iterations:", sum(sum(row) for row in intermediate_pattern))

final_pattern = enhance(intermediate_pattern, book, 13)
print("After 18 iterations:", sum(sum(row) for row in final_pattern))

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