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/* * Library code to divide up a rectangle into a number of equally * sized ominoes, in a random fashion. * * Could use this for generating solved grids of * http://www.nikoli.co.jp/ja/puzzles/block_puzzle/ * or for generating the playfield for Jigsaw Sudoku. */ /* * This code is restricted to simply connected solutions: that is, * no single polyomino may completely surround another (not even * with a corner visible to the outside world, in the sense that a * 7-omino can `surround' a single square). * * It's tempting to think that this is a natural consequence of * all the ominoes being the same size - after all, a division of * anything into 7-ominoes must necessarily have all of them * simply connected, because if one was not then the 1-square * space in the middle could not be part of any 7-omino - but in * fact, for sufficiently large k, it is perfectly possible for a * k-omino to completely surround another k-omino. A simple * example is this one with two 25-ominoes: * * +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ * | | * + +--+--+--+--+--+ + * | | | | * + + + + * | | | | * + + + +--+ * | | | | * + + + +--+ * | | | | * + + + + * | | | | * + +--+--+--+--+--+ + * | | * +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ * * I claim the smallest k which can manage this is 23. More * formally: * * If a k-omino P is completely surrounded by another k-omino Q, * such that every edge of P borders on Q, then k >= 23. * * Proof: * * It's relatively simple to find the largest _rectangle_ a * k-omino can enclose. So I'll construct my proof in two parts: * firstly, show that no 22-omino or smaller can enclose a * rectangle as large as itself, and secondly, show that no * polyomino can enclose a larger non-rectangle than a rectangle. * * The first of those claims: * * To surround an m x n rectangle, a polyomino must have 2m * squares along the two m-sides of the rectangle, 2n squares * along the two n-sides, and must fill in at least three of the * corners in order to be connected. Thus, 2(m+n)+3 <= k. We wish * to find the largest value of mn subject to that constraint, and * it's clear that this is achieved when m and n are as close to * equal as possible. (If they aren't, WLOG suppose m < n; then * (m+1)(n-1) = mn + n - m - 1 >= mn, with equality only when * m=n-1.) * * So the area of the largest rectangle which can be enclosed by a * k-omino is given by floor(k'/2) * ceil(k'/2), where k' = * (k-3)/2. This is a monotonic function in k, so there will be a * unique point at which it goes from being smaller than k to * being larger than k. That point is between 22 (maximum area 20) * and 23 (maximum area 25). * * The second claim: * * Suppose we have an inner polyomino P surrounded by an outer * polyomino Q. I seek to show that if P is non-rectangular, then * P is also non-maximal, in the sense that we can transform P and * Q into a new pair of polyominoes in which P is larger and Q is * at most the same size. * * Consider walking along the boundary of P in a clockwise * direction. (We may assume, of course, that there is only _one_ * boundary of P, i.e. P has no hole in the middle. If it does * have a hole in the middle, it's _trivially_ non-maximal because * we can just fill the hole in!) Our walk will take us along many * edges between squares; sometimes we might turn left, and * certainly sometimes we will turn right. Always there will be a * square of P on our right, and a square of Q on our left. * * The net angle through which we turn during the entire walk must * add up to 360 degrees rightwards. So if there are no left * turns, then we must turn right exactly four times, meaning we * have described a rectangle. Hence, if P is _not_ rectangular, * then there must have been a left turn at some point. A left * turn must mean we walk along two edges of the same square of Q. * * Thus, there is some square X in Q which is adjacent to two * diagonally separated squares in P. Let us call those two * squares N and E; let us refer to the other two neighbours of X * as S and W; let us refer to the other mutual neighbour of S and * W as D; and let us refer to the other mutual neighbour of S and * E as Y. In other words, we have named seven squares, arranged * thus: * * N * W X E * D S Y * * where N and E are in P, and X is in Q. * * Clearly at least one of W and S must be in Q (because otherwise * X would not be connected to any other square in Q, and would * hence have to be the whole of Q; and evidently if Q were a * 1-omino it could not enclose _anything_). So we divide into * cases: * * If both W and S are in Q, then we take X out of Q and put it in * P, which does not expose any edge of P. If this disconnects Q, * then we can reconnect it by adding D to Q. * * If only one of W and S is in Q, then wlog let it be W. If S is * in _P_, then we have a particularly easy case: we can simply * take X out of Q and add it to P, and this cannot disconnect X * since X was a leaf square of Q. * * Our remaining case is that W is in Q and S is in neither P nor * Q. Again we take X out of Q and put it in P; we also add S to * Q. This ensures we do not expose an edge of P, but we must now * prove that S is adjacent to some other existing square of Q so * that we haven't disconnected Q by adding it. * * To do this, we recall that we walked along the edge XE, and * then turned left to walk along XN. So just before doing all * that, we must have reached the corner XSE, and we must have * done it by walking along one of the three edges meeting at that * corner which are _not_ XE. It can't have been SY, since S would * then have been on our left and it isn't in Q; and it can't have * been XS, since S would then have been on our right and it isn't * in P. So it must have been YE, in which case Y was on our left, * and hence is in Q. * * So in all cases we have shown that we can take X out of Q and * add it to P, and add at most one square to Q to restore the * containment and connectedness properties. Hence, we can keep * doing this until we run out of left turns and P becomes * rectangular. [] * * ------------ * * Anyway, that entire proof was a bit of a sidetrack. The point * is, although constructions of this type are possible for * sufficiently large k, divvy_rectangle() will never generate * them. This could be considered a weakness for some purposes, in * the sense that we can't generate all possible divisions. * However, there are many divisions which we are highly unlikely * to generate anyway, so in practice it probably isn't _too_ bad. * * If I wanted to fix this issue, I would have to make the rules * more complicated for determining when a square can safely be * _removed_ from a polyomino. Adding one becomes easier (a square * may be added to a polyomino iff it is 4-adjacent to any square * currently part of the polyomino, and the current test for loop * formation may be dispensed with), but to determine which * squares may be removed we must now resort to analysis of the * overall structure of the polyomino rather than the simple local * properties we can currently get away with measuring. */ /* * Possible improvements which might cut the fail rate: * * - instead of picking one omino to extend in an iteration, try * them all in succession (in a randomised order) * * - (for real rigour) instead of bfsing over ominoes, bfs over * the space of possible _removed squares_. That way we aren't * limited to randomly choosing a single square to remove from * an omino and failing if that particular square doesn't * happen to work. * * However, I don't currently think it's necessary to do either of * these, because the failure rate is already low enough to be * easily tolerable, under all circumstances I've been able to * think of. */ #include <assert.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stddef.h> #include "puzzles.h" /* * Subroutine which implements a function used in computing both * whether a square can safely be added to an omino, and whether * it can safely be removed. * * We enumerate the eight squares 8-adjacent to this one, in * cyclic order. We go round that loop and count the number of * times we find a square owned by the target omino next to one * not owned by it. We then return success iff that count is 2. * * When adding a square to an omino, this is precisely the * criterion which tells us that adding the square won't leave a * hole in the middle of the omino. (If it did, then things get * more complicated; see above.) * * When removing a square from an omino, the _same_ criterion * tells us that removing the square won't disconnect the omino. * (This only works _because_ we've ensured the omino is simply * connected.) */ static bool addremcommon(int w, int h, int x, int y, int *own, int val) { int neighbours[8]; int dir, count; for (dir = 0; dir < 8; dir++) { int dx = ((dir & 3) == 2 ? 0 : dir > 2 && dir < 6 ? +1 : -1); int dy = ((dir & 3) == 0 ? 0 : dir < 4 ? -1 : +1); int sx = x+dx, sy = y+dy; if (sx < 0 || sx >= w || sy < 0 || sy >= h) neighbours[dir] = -1; /* outside the grid */ else neighbours[dir] = own[sy*w+sx]; } /* * To begin with, check 4-adjacency. */ if (neighbours[0] != val && neighbours[2] != val && neighbours[4] != val && neighbours[6] != val) return false; count = 0; for (dir = 0; dir < 8; dir++) { int next = (dir + 1) & 7; bool gotthis = (neighbours[dir] == val); bool gotnext = (neighbours[next] == val); if (gotthis != gotnext) count++; } return (count == 2); } /* * w and h are the dimensions of the rectangle. * * k is the size of the required ominoes. (So k must divide w*h, * of course.) * * The returned result is a w*h-sized dsf. * * In both of the above suggested use cases, the user would * probably want w==h==k, but that isn't a requirement. */ int *divvy_rectangle_attempt(int w, int h, int k, random_state *rs) { int *order, *queue, *tmp, *own, *sizes, *addable, *retdsf; bool *removable; int wh = w*h; int i, j, n, x, y, qhead, qtail; n = wh / k; assert(wh == k*n); order = snewn(wh, int); tmp = snewn(wh, int); own = snewn(wh, int); sizes = snewn(n, int); queue = snewn(n, int); addable = snewn(wh*4, int); removable = snewn(wh, bool); /* * Permute the grid squares into a random order, which will be * used for iterating over the grid whenever we need to search * for something. This prevents directional bias and arranges * for the answer to be non-deterministic. */ for (i = 0; i < wh; i++) order[i] = i; shuffle(order, wh, sizeof(*order), rs); /* * Begin by choosing a starting square at random for each * omino. */ for (i = 0; i < wh; i++) { own[i] = -1; } for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { own[order[i]] = i; sizes[i] = 1; } /* * Now repeatedly pick a random omino which isn't already at * the target size, and find a way to expand it by one. This * may involve stealing a square from another omino, in which * case we then re-expand that omino, forming a chain of * square-stealing which terminates in an as yet unclaimed * square. Hence every successful iteration around this loop * causes the number of unclaimed squares to drop by one, and * so the process is bounded in duration. */ while (1) { #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS { int x, y; printf("Top of loop. Current grid:\n"); for (y = 0; y < h; y++) { for (x = 0; x < w; x++) printf("%3d", own[y*w+x]); printf("\n"); } } #endif /* * Go over the grid and figure out which squares can * safely be added to, or removed from, each omino. We * don't take account of other ominoes in this process, so * we will often end up knowing that a square can be * poached from one omino by another. * * For each square, there may be up to four ominoes to * which it can be added (those to which it is * 4-adjacent). */ for (y = 0; y < h; y++) { for (x = 0; x < w; x++) { int yx = y*w+x; int curr = own[yx]; int dir; if (curr < 0) { removable[yx] = false; /* can't remove if not owned! */ } else if (sizes[curr] == 1) { removable[yx] = true; /* can always remove a singleton */ } else { /* * See if this square can be removed from its * omino without disconnecting it. */ removable[yx] = addremcommon(w, h, x, y, own, curr); } for (dir = 0; dir < 4; dir++) { int dx = (dir == 0 ? -1 : dir == 1 ? +1 : 0); int dy = (dir == 2 ? -1 : dir == 3 ? +1 : 0); int sx = x + dx, sy = y + dy; int syx = sy*w+sx; addable[yx*4+dir] = -1; if (sx < 0 || sx >= w || sy < 0 || sy >= h) continue; /* no omino here! */ if (own[syx] < 0) continue; /* also no omino here */ if (own[syx] == own[yx]) continue; /* we already got one */ if (!addremcommon(w, h, x, y, own, own[syx])) continue; /* would non-simply connect the omino */ addable[yx*4+dir] = own[syx]; } } } for (i = j = 0; i < n; i++) if (sizes[i] < k) tmp[j++] = i; if (j == 0) break; /* all ominoes are complete! */ j = tmp[random_upto(rs, j)]; #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS printf("Trying to extend %d\n", j); #endif /* * So we're trying to expand omino j. We breadth-first * search out from j across the space of ominoes. * * For bfs purposes, we use two elements of tmp per omino: * tmp[2*i+0] tells us which omino we got to i from, and * tmp[2*i+1] numbers the grid square that omino stole * from us. * * This requires that wh (the size of tmp) is at least 2n, * i.e. k is at least 2. There would have been nothing to * stop a user calling this function with k=1, but if they * did then we wouldn't have got to _here_ in the code - * we would have noticed above that all ominoes were * already at their target sizes, and terminated :-) */ assert(wh >= 2*n); for (i = 0; i < n; i++) tmp[2*i] = tmp[2*i+1] = -1; qhead = qtail = 0; queue[qtail++] = j; tmp[2*j] = tmp[2*j+1] = -2; /* special value: `starting point' */ while (qhead < qtail) { int tmpsq; j = queue[qhead]; /* * We wish to expand omino j. However, we might have * got here by omino j having a square stolen from it, * so first of all we must temporarily mark that * square as not belonging to j, so that our adjacency * calculations don't assume j _does_ belong to us. */ tmpsq = tmp[2*j+1]; if (tmpsq >= 0) { assert(own[tmpsq] == j); own[tmpsq] = -3; } /* * OK. Now begin by seeing if we can find any * unclaimed square into which we can expand omino j. * If we find one, the entire bfs terminates. */ for (i = 0; i < wh; i++) { int dir; if (own[order[i]] != -1) continue; /* this square is claimed */ /* * Special case: if our current omino was size 1 * and then had a square stolen from it, it's now * size zero, which means it's valid to `expand' * it into _any_ unclaimed square. */ if (sizes[j] == 1 && tmpsq >= 0) break; /* got one */ /* * Failing that, we must do the full test for * addability. */ for (dir = 0; dir < 4; dir++) if (addable[order[i]*4+dir] == j) { /* * We know this square is addable to this * omino with the grid in the state it had * at the top of the loop. However, we * must now check that it's _still_ * addable to this omino when the omino is * missing a square. To do this it's only * necessary to re-check addremcommon. */ if (!addremcommon(w, h, order[i]%w, order[i]/w, own, j)) continue; break; } if (dir == 4) continue; /* we can't add this square to j */ break; /* got one! */ } if (i < wh) { i = order[i]; /* * Restore the temporarily removed square _before_ * we start shifting ownerships about. */ if (tmpsq >= 0) own[tmpsq] = j; /* * We are done. We can add square i to omino j, * and then backtrack along the trail in tmp * moving squares between ominoes, ending up * expanding our starting omino by one. */ #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS printf("(%d,%d)", i%w, i/w); #endif while (1) { own[i] = j; #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS printf(" -> %d", j); #endif if (tmp[2*j] == -2) break; i = tmp[2*j+1]; j = tmp[2*j]; #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS printf("; (%d,%d)", i%w, i/w); #endif } #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS printf("\n"); #endif /* * Increment the size of the starting omino. */ sizes[j]++; /* * Terminate the bfs loop. */ break; } /* * If we get here, we haven't been able to expand * omino j into an unclaimed square. So now we begin * to investigate expanding it into squares which are * claimed by ominoes the bfs has not yet visited. */ for (i = 0; i < wh; i++) { int dir, nj; nj = own[order[i]]; if (nj < 0 || tmp[2*nj] != -1) continue; /* unclaimed, or owned by wrong omino */ if (!removable[order[i]]) continue; /* its omino won't let it go */ for (dir = 0; dir < 4; dir++) if (addable[order[i]*4+dir] == j) { /* * As above, re-check addremcommon. */ if (!addremcommon(w, h, order[i]%w, order[i]/w, own, j)) continue; /* * We have found a square we can use to * expand omino j, at the expense of the * as-yet unvisited omino nj. So add this * to the bfs queue. */ assert(qtail < n); queue[qtail++] = nj; tmp[2*nj] = j; tmp[2*nj+1] = order[i]; /* * Now terminate the loop over dir, to * ensure we don't accidentally add the * same omino twice to the queue. */ break; } } /* * Restore the temporarily removed square. */ if (tmpsq >= 0) own[tmpsq] = j; /* * Advance the queue head. */ qhead++; } if (qhead == qtail) { /* * We have finished the bfs and not found any way to * expand omino j. Panic, and return failure. * * FIXME: or should we loop over all ominoes before we * give up? */ #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS printf("FAIL!\n"); #endif retdsf = NULL; goto cleanup; } } #ifdef DIVVY_DIAGNOSTICS { int x, y; printf("SUCCESS! Final grid:\n"); for (y = 0; y < h; y++) { for (x = 0; x < w; x++) printf("%3d", own[y*w+x]); printf("\n"); } } #endif /* * Construct the output dsf. */ for (i = 0; i < wh; i++) { assert(own[i] >= 0 && own[i] < n); tmp[own[i]] = i; } retdsf = snew_dsf(wh); for (i = 0; i < wh; i++) { dsf_merge(retdsf, i, tmp[own[i]]); } /* * Construct the output dsf a different way, to verify that * the ominoes really are k-ominoes and we haven't * accidentally split one into two disconnected pieces. */ dsf_init(tmp, wh); for (y = 0; y < h; y++) for (x = 0; x+1 < w; x++) if (own[y*w+x] == own[y*w+(x+1)]) dsf_merge(tmp, y*w+x, y*w+(x+1)); for (x = 0; x < w; x++) for (y = 0; y+1 < h; y++) if (own[y*w+x] == own[(y+1)*w+x]) dsf_merge(tmp, y*w+x, (y+1)*w+x); for (i = 0; i < wh; i++) { j = dsf_canonify(retdsf, i); assert(dsf_canonify(tmp, j) == dsf_canonify(tmp, i)); } cleanup: /* * Free our temporary working space. */ sfree(order); sfree(tmp); sfree(own); sfree(sizes); sfree(queue); sfree(addable); sfree(removable); /* * And we're done. */ return retdsf; } int *divvy_rectangle(int w, int h, int k, random_state *rs) { int *ret; do { ret = divvy_rectangle_attempt(w, h, k, rs); } while (!ret); return ret; }