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204 lines
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Advent of Code
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--- Day 18: Settlers of The North Pole ---
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On the outskirts of the North Pole base construction project, many Elves are collecting lumber.
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The lumber collection area is 50 acres by 50 acres; each acre can be either open ground (.), trees (|), or a
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lumberyard (#). You take a scan of the area (your puzzle input).
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Strange magic is at work here: each minute, the landscape looks entirely different. In exactly one minute, an
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open acre can fill with trees, a wooded acre can be converted to a lumberyard, or a lumberyard can be cleared
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to open ground (the lumber having been sent to other projects).
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The change to each acre is based entirely on the contents of that acre as well as the number of open, wooded,
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or lumberyard acres adjacent to it at the start of each minute. Here, "adjacent" means any of the eight acres
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surrounding that acre. (Acres on the edges of the lumber collection area might have fewer than eight adjacent
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acres; the missing acres aren't counted.)
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In particular:
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• An open acre will become filled with trees if three or more adjacent acres contained trees. Otherwise,
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nothing happens.
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• An acre filled with trees will become a lumberyard if three or more adjacent acres were lumberyards.
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Otherwise, nothing happens.
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• An acre containing a lumberyard will remain a lumberyard if it was adjacent to at least one other
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lumberyard and at least one acre containing trees. Otherwise, it becomes open.
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These changes happen across all acres simultaneously, each of them using the state of all acres at the
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beginning of the minute and changing to their new form by the end of that same minute. Changes that happen
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during the minute don't affect each other.
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For example, suppose the lumber collection area is instead only 10 by 10 acres with this initial
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configuration:
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Initial state:
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.#.#...|#.
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.....#|##|
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..|#.....#
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#.#|||#|#|
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...#.||...
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...#.|..|.
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After 1 minute:
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.......##.
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......|###
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After 2 minutes:
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.......#..
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......|#..
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After 3 minutes:
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.......#..
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After 4 minutes:
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.....|.#..
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After 5 minutes:
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After 6 minutes:
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After 7 minutes:
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After 8 minutes:
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After 9 minutes:
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After 10 minutes:
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.||##.....
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After 10 minutes, there are 37 wooded acres and 31 lumberyards. Multiplying the number of wooded acres by the
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number of lumberyards gives the total resource value after ten minutes: 37 * 31 = 1147.
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What will the total resource value of the lumber collection area be after 10 minutes?
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Your puzzle answer was 644640.
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--- Part Two ---
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This important natural resource will need to last for at least thousands of years. Are the Elves collecting
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this lumber sustainably?
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What will the total resource value of the lumber collection area be after 1000000000 minutes?
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Your puzzle answer was 191080.
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Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **
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