DOUBLE VISIONProblem code: DSPC310 |
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The DoubleVision company designs inks and fonts that can be easily read by both humans and machines. They design their fonts on a rectangular grid. Shown below is a very simple 5x3 design for the first five digits.
.o. .o. oo. oo. o.o
o.o .o. ..o ..o o.o
o.o .o. .o. oo. ooo
o.o .o. o.. ..o ..o
.o. .o. ooo oo. ..o
The ink appears to be normal black ink, but just underneath the surface DoubleVision adds a special polymer that can be detected by an infrared scanner. A human sees the black ink but not the polymer, and a machine sees the polymer but not the black ink. The only problem is that the polymer is much more expensive than the ink, so DoubleVision wants to use as little of it as possible. They have discovered that with many fonts, each symbol can be uniquely identified by at most two pixels. By only adding the polymer to one or two pixels per symbol, they drastically lower costs while still ensuring 100% accuracy in their scanners. The font shown above has this property; pixels that uniquely identify each letter are highlighted with '#'. (There are other choices that would work as well.)
.#. .o. #o. oo. o.#
#.o .#. ..o ..o o.o
o.o .o. .o. #o. ooo
o.o .o. #.. ..o ..o
.o. .o. ooo #o. ..o
Your job is to write a program to determine if a given font has this property, and if so highlight the pixels.
The input consists of one or more test cases, followed by a line containing '0 0 0' (three zeros) that signals the end of the input. Each test case begins with a line containing three positive integers n, r, and c, separated by a space: n is the number of symbols in the font, r is the number of rows in each grid, and c is the number of columns in each grid. The next r lines contain the image of each symbol, using the exact format shown in the examples: a dot '.' represents an empty part of the grid, a lowercase 'o' represents a pixel, and adjacent grids are separated by a space. The total width of each line will be at most 79 characters (not counting end-of-line characters), and r will be at most 10. The test cases are implicitly numbered starting with 1.
For test case i, first output a line that says 'Test i'. Then determine if each symbol can be uniquely identified with one or two pixels. If not, output a line with the word 'impossible'. Otherwise, output the font in the same format except that the identifying pixels for each symbol are replaced with '#'.
In general there may be several different pixels or pixel pairs that uniquely identify a symbol. To ensure that the output is unique, we add the following definition and rules. When comparing two pixels, the topmost-leftmost pixel is the one closest to the top of the grid. If both pixels are on the same row, then the topmost-leftmost is the one closest to the left of the grid.
If one pixel will work, highlight the topmost-leftmost pixel that works. Never highlight a two-pixel solution if a one-pixel solution is possible. If two pixels are needed, highlight the pair with the topmost-leftmost pixel. If two or more pairs have the same topmost-leftmost pixel, highlight the one with the topmost-leftmost other pixel.
Input:
3 2 2
oo oo .o
o. .o o.
3 2 2
oo oo .o
o. .o oo
5 5 3
.o. .o. oo. oo. o.o
o.o .o. ..o ..o o.o
o.o .o. .o. oo. ooo
o.o .o. o.. ..o ..o
.o. .o. ooo oo. ..o
1 2 4
.o..
...o
0 0 0
Output:
Test 1
impossible
Test 2
#o #o .o
#. .# ##
Test 3
.#. .o. #o. oo. o.#
#.o .#. ..o ..o o.o
o.o .o. .o. #o. ooo
o.o .o. #.. ..o ..o
.o. .o. ooo #o. ..o
Test 4
.#..
...o
| Author: | ganesha |
| Date Added: | 30-03-2010 |
| Time Limit: | 2 sec |
| Source Limit: | 50000 Bytes |
| Languages: | ADA, ASM, BASH, BF, C, C99 strict, CAML, CLOJ, CLPS, CPP 4.0.0-8, CPP 4.3.2, CS2, D, ERL, F#, FORT, GO, HASK, ICK, ICON, JAR, JAVA, JS, LISP clisp, LISP sbcl, LUA, NEM, NICE, PAS fpc, PAS gpc, PERL, PERL6, PHP, PIKE, PRLG, PYTH, PYTH 3.1.2, RUBY, SCALA, SCM guile, SCM qobi, ST, TEXT, WSPC |
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Please check your input file.
Please check your input file.
@Harshit We are pretty sure
@Harshit
We are pretty sure about the Input File.
Please check the input file
Please check the input file or atleast tell how to avoid TLE because end of input.
Im very sure the runtime of my program should be around 0.00sec.
Admin please check the input
Admin please check the input file and output file and remove unwanted EOLs.
The problem statement does not talk about any extra EOL's in the output!
@vishal Please reply!!!
@vishal
Please reply!!!
@Ravi I have replied to your
@Ravi
I have replied to your e-mail.
@LeftBrained & Others Please
@LeftBrained & Others
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@Vishal ... were we supposed
@Vishal ... were we supposed to get any mail,etc confirming the registration ?
@Antar If you have registered
@Antar
If you have registered at the Web-site. Its fine. You won't be getting any confirmation mails.
@Vishal,Zeeshan Cant find
@Vishal,Zeeshan
Cant find your contact numbers anywhere.
Do you mind to mail them by e-mail?This problem is really vexing me espescially after i know my solution is correct!:(
@Ravi Have you tried this
@Ravi
Have you tried this problem in SPOJ? I'll send you the SPOJ's link to the problem ASA I cantact Zeeshan.
can you explain the example
can you explain the example how it uniquely identifies the characters?
Admin: https://www.spoj.pl/pr
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https://www.spoj.pl/problems/DOUBLEVI/
Please
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can you give a little
can you give a little explanation of the example test case . How do the machine interprets the ink?
@ please tell what exactly
@ please tell what exactly makes two code different?
TEST1 can be #o o# .# o. .o
TEST1 can be
#o o# .#
o. .o #.
What is wrong with this?
@Gunjan This is a Question
@Gunjan
This is a Question from SPOJ. Link has been given.
I know but i am not able to
I know but i am not able to understand the problem. How machine differentiate between different codes
@Gunjan We may provide an
@Gunjan
We may provide an editorial for the problem but that would be after our Exams end.
I would very
I would very much appreciate that.
But I wish I could have understood the prob so that atleast I could have tried it. :(
Anyways Great contest. :)
@Gunjan The problem could be
@Gunjan
The problem could be understood from reading the test cases given. The input starts with three integers n,r,c. n here is the number of symbols in the set. r and c is the number of rows and columns required to represent a single symbol. These symbols are distributed over r input lines that follow.
Eg in the first input case :
Symbol1:
oo
o.
Symbol2:
oo
.o
etc.
Now , they could only hide the polymer under a dark spot (represented by a 0) in a symbol . You need to find the first (or first two) spots where they can hide the polymer such that the place(s) where they hide aren't dark (together at the same time) in any other symbol.
(this is the best how i interpret the problem ...)