# Advent of Code Day 8¶

In [19]:
def apply_input(filename):
def inner(fn):
with open(filename) as input_file:
return inner

In [4]:
width = 25
height = 6

In [27]:
import re

def solve(inp, width=width, height=height):
current_zeros = float("inf")
product = None

while inp:
layer = inp[:width * height]

inp = inp[width * height:]

zeros = len(re.findall('0', layer))

if zeros < current_zeros:
current_zeros = zeros

ones = len(re.findall('1', layer))
twos = len(re.findall('2', layer))

product = ones * twos

return product

In [29]:
solve("123456789012", width=3, height=2)

Out[29]:
1
In [30]:
apply_input("AoC/input8.txt")(solve)

Out[30]:
2064
In [87]:
def render(inp, width=width, height=height):
image = ['2'] * (width * height)

while inp:
for i, px in enumerate(inp[:width * height]):
if image[i] == '2':
image[i] = px

inp = inp[width*height:]

while image:
print(" ".join(image[:width]).replace("0", " ").replace("1", "#"))
image = image[width:]

In [88]:
render("0222112222120000", 2, 2)

  #
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In [89]:
apply_input("AoC/input8.txt")(render)

#     #     # #     #     #   # # # #     # #
#   #     #     #   #     #         #   #     #
# #       #     #   #     #       #     #     #
#   #     # # # #   #     #     #       # # # #
#   #     #     #   #     #   #         #     #
#     #   #     #     # #     # # # #   #     #


Mostly about implementing quickly today, and deciphering what the text said. My first attempt was pretty hard to read, and I just manually traced it out instead of trying to make the visualization better -- which would probably have been faster.

I made 2 mistakes that cost me a lot of time: read the first question incorrectly and returned the value for the layer with the most zeros; and in the second I kept forcing a comparison between a string and an int and kept wondering why things weren't working.

Still, some of my strongest ranks so far: 306 (new PR!) / 352.