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Advent of Code 2021 Day 5 (BaseA Style)

jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Discussion thread for day 5 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/5

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bflick
8 - Asteroid

I guess my teachers were right and we did need to remember y = mx + b. A great opportunity to use the generate rows tool!

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Step 1: Parse out the lines
Challenge 1:
Step 2: Fitler for just horizontal and vertical
Step 3: Generate X positions
Step 4: Generate Y Positions
Step 4: Group by X,Ys of generated positions and count
Step 5: Filter for any > 1
Challenge 2:
Step 2: Calculate m and b
Step 3: Generate X positions
Step 4: Calculate y using y = mx + b
Step 4: Group by X,Ys of generated positions and count
Step 5: Filter for any > 1'
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clmc9601
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

Lots of Generate Rows!

 

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cgoodman3
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar
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Again another day where the part two wasn't that much more difficult than the first part. I just got stuck down a rabbit hole as the first attempt at building it out I had forgotten that there could be diagonals in both directions, so it's not just as case of generating the x.y co-ordinates as you need to factor in increasing and decreasing values in x and y and because I was using a join based on position instead of calculating the order needed to get my ordering correct. So while most of the time it is beneficial being able to use assumed sort in Alteryx if you are relying on a particular order you can't! So that resulted in the second part taking much longer than the first!

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NicoleJohnson
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Solved for stars and then played tool golf to get it down to this combination... Though I'm a bit disappointed in myself now that I see @bflick bringing back y=mx+b. Missed out on an opportunity to finally use that particular tidbit of knowledge! 😂

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Cheers!

NJ

AkimasaKajitani
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

I use only one Generate Row tool to make diagonal line. It is a pretty forceful way. But it took long time to make the condition expression.

 

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GitHub

https://github.com/AkimasaKajitani/AdventOfCode

estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Wow, taking me back to HS math. 

 

abs(ATAN2([y1]-[y2], [x1]-[x2]))*180/3.14 (to find 45 degree diagonal lines)

y=mx+b

 

My solution resembles @bflick 's solution

 

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grossal
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Very straight forward this time. Could have simplified the first one, but I'll need breakfast first.

 

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dsmdavid
11 - Bolide
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Thought this could be a good fun for spatial or golf. Went with golf...
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https://github.com/dsmdavid/AdventCode2021

patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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