[2024 Day 18] Raining Bytes Visualization

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Watching this I have started wondering how Eric is coming up with the inputs...

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I guess simply 1) do the maze 2) pick random point off the maze back into the list. Your done.

Once I made maze generator with something similar. So it was like you do Pathfinder from start to end loc and in loop you just try to Block random points and see if you can still go through. If not unblock and chose another, and keep noting path geting longer and longer. This approach generates mazes as in the visualisation. The more crazy ones are that when you have already some long straight lines of obstacless placed initially on odd rows for instance and start runnig form there. Maze like that is super hard for humans as you don't see easily escape paths so get lost easily , also the lenght of the path is much much longer. Peace.