adventofcode/2016/day08/problem

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--- Day 8: Two-Factor Authentication ---

   You come across a door implementing what you can only assume is an
   implementation of two-factor authentication after a long game of
   requirements telephone.

   To get past the door, you first swipe a keycard (no problem; there was one
   on a nearby desk). Then, it displays a code on a little screen, and you type
   that code on a keypad. Then, presumably, the door unlocks.

   Unfortunately, the screen has been smashed. After a few minutes, you've
   taken everything apart and figured out how it works. Now you just have to
   work out what the screen would have displayed.

   The magnetic strip on the card you swiped encodes a series of instructions
   for the screen; these instructions are your puzzle input. The screen is 50
   pixels wide and 6 pixels tall, all of which start off, and is capable of
   three somewhat peculiar operations:

     • rect AxB turns on all of the pixels in a rectangle at the top-left of
       the screen which is A wide and B tall.

     • rotate row y=A by B shifts all of the pixels in row A (0 is the top row)
       right by B pixels. Pixels that would fall off the right end appear at the
       left end of the row.

     • rotate column x=A by B shifts all of the pixels in column A (0 is the
       left column) down by B pixels. Pixels that would fall off the bottom
       appear at the top of the column.

   For example, here is a simple sequence on a smaller screen:

     • rect 3x2 creates a small rectangle in the top-left corner:

 ###....
 ###....
 .......

     • rotate column x=1 by 1 rotates the second column down by one pixel:

 #.#....
 ###....
 .#.....

     • rotate row y=0 by 4 rotates the top row right by four pixels:

 ....#.#
 ###....
 .#.....

     • rotate column x=1 by 1 again rotates the second column down by one
       pixel, causing the bottom pixel to wrap back to the top:

 .#..#.#
 #.#....
 .#.....

   As you can see, this display technology is extremely powerful, and will soon
   dominate the tiny-code-displaying-screen market. That's what the
   advertisement on the back of the display tries to convince you, anyway.

   There seems to be an intermediate check of the voltage used by the display:
   after you swipe your card, if the screen did work, how many pixels should be
   lit?

   Your puzzle answer was 119.

--- Part Two ---

   You notice that the screen is only capable of displaying capital letters; in
   the font it uses, each letter is 5 pixels wide and 6 tall.

   After you swipe your card, what code is the screen trying to display?

   Your puzzle answer was ZFHFSFOGPO.

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