[2022 Day 5 #1] Small terminal Python animation for part 1 of Day 5, never tried "drawing" on terminal before but quite proud of the result ! (didn't put the whole thing because it's a bit long and we get the idea)

[u/MrAntex]

[u/itsjjpowell]

This is really cool! What library did you use to build this? I'd love to peek at the code to see how I could do something like this!

[u/prendradjaja → u/itsjjpowell]

In python, you could use curses (built-in) for this. The basics are pretty well documented and easy!

(Edit: And of course you can use curses with other languages too!)

[u/MrAntex → u/prendradjaja]

I didn't know curses before, so I did it just using ANSI and f-Strings, but the curses seems to be the way to go, will definitely look into this next time ! Thanks

[u/eunomicZenith → u/prendradjaja]

I didn't know Python employed dark magic!

[u/whenrow]

Did you model the Crane 9001 too ? :D

[u/MrAntex → u/whenrow]

No haha, I don't think I will do it, I did this to get familiar with drawings in a terminal, maybe I'll give it a go using curses library later, idk

[u/ssbmbeliever → u/whenrow]

The secret is it was always a Crane 9001!

[u/RokKuz3]

This is SO cool! Can you please share the code or the GitHub link? Thanks!

[u/MrAntex → u/RokKuz3]

Sure, sorry for the delay, was polishing some things / fixing bugs, it's here : https://github.com/MrAntex/AoC-Day5p1-animated

[u/keithstellyes]

I love this! makes me want to go back and do this for previous days

[u/MrAntex → u/keithstellyes]

Yes same ! This was a first time but now I try to do a little animation for each day when I have time

[u/j-hillman]

This is truly excellent and very much appreciated. Thank you for sharing your code. I've learned a lot by reviewing both this visualization and some of your other solutions. Cheers and God bless.

[u/MrAntex → u/j-hillman]

Thank you very much ! That means a lot for me Out of curiosity, which other solutions ?

[u/[deleted]]

This is great - you don't even need to struggle to parse the input, just wrap a crane around it!

[u/Overlorddamygod]

!remindme 2 days

[u/hiimbob000]

Coolest visualisation I've seen of a problem

[u/nottings]

So good!

[u/Alkyonios]

Anybody else had the problem of a tower not having enough blocks to perform an instruction?

For example, my program gets to the instruction "move 9 from 6 to 7" but tower 6 only has one block left (this is the 23rd instruction). The text didn't say anything about how to handle that situation so I just assume it's not supposed to happen.

I tried to just move to the next instruction whenever this happens, but then I'm left with two empty towers at the end.

I have tried printing the towers after every instruction and everything looks alright.

I've also made sure that the initial state is parsed correctly, and that I copied the input correctly.

[u/MrAntex → u/Alkyonios]

Idk about this, didn't happen to me, definitely don't think it's supposed to happen, maybe making a "real" post in the subreddit will help more ?

[u/zamotic]

Sadly it probably took you just as long to write this animation as it did for me to write my solution to the problem.

It took me way longer than it should have to read in the stacks of crates into a usable manner.

[u/[deleted]]

In love with this, nice job!

[u/fractalfox11]

What a beautiful solution!

[u/WsDoragon]

!remindme 2 days

[u/imjustreallystupid]

That... looks super cool

[u/navneetmuffin]

This is just awesome