from collections import Counter pos = {} y = 0 for line in open("input"): for x, c in enumerate(line): if c == '#': pos[x,y] = 1 y += 1 def choices(pos, dir): x,y = pos dy = (dir == 'S') - (dir == 'N') dx = (dir == 'E') - (dir == 'W') if dx: for dy in -1,0,+1: yield x+dx,y+dy else: assert dy for dx in -1,0,+1: yield x+dx, y+dy def go(pos, dir): x,y = pos dy = (dir == 'S') - (dir == 'N') dx = (dir == 'E') - (dir == 'W') return x+dx,y+dy def neighbors(pos): x,y = pos for dx in -1,0,+1: for dy in -1,0,+1: if dx or dy: yield x+dx,y+dy def migrate(start, rounds): moves = ['N', 'S', 'W', 'E'] for _ in range(rounds): show(start) print("-") propose = {} destCount = Counter() for p in start: propose[p] = p if any(n in start for n in neighbors(p)): for m in moves: if not any(c in start for c in choices(p, m)): c = go(p,m) propose[p] = c destCount[c] += 1 break next = {} for p, d in propose.items(): if destCount[d] <= 1: next[d] = 1 else: next[p] = 1 moves.append(moves.pop(0)) start = next return start def show(pos): xmin = min(x for x,y in pos) ymin = min(y for x,y in pos) xmax = max(x for x,y in pos) ymax = max(y for x,y in pos) for y in range(ymin, ymax+1): print("".join(".#"[(x,y) in pos] for x in range(xmin,xmax+1))) def count_empty(pos): n = 0 xmin = min(x for x,y in pos) ymin = min(y for x,y in pos) xmax = max(x for x,y in pos) ymax = max(y for x,y in pos) return (ymax-ymin+1)*(xmax-xmin+1) - len(pos) #print(pos) n = count_empty(migrate(pos, 10)) print(n)