Circles dividing the plane

Question

Task

You will be given a set of circles in the plane with their centers on the line y=0. It is guaranteed that no pair of circles has more than one common point.

Your task is to determine into how many regions into which the circles divide the plane. A region is an inclusion-maximal contiguous set of points not intersecting any of the circles.

You should write a program that computes this answer when given a description of the circles.

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Here's an example:

On the left side you see the circles drawn in the plane. However, in the right half of the picture, the regions produced by the circles are colored distinctly (one color per region). There are six regions in this example.

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Input

The first line of the input contains a number, N, the number of circle descriptions to follow. This line is optional, if your solution works without it, it's fine.

The following N lines each contain two integers, x_i and r_i > 0, representing a circle with center (x_i, 0) and radius r_i.

It is guaranteed that no pair of circles has more than one common point. It is further guaranteed that x_i and r_i do not exceed 10^9 in absolute value (so they comfortably fit into a 32-bit integer).

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The input may be:

• read from STDIN

• read from a file named I in the current directory

Alternatively, the input could be:

• available as a string (including newlines) in a global variable

• on the stack

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Output

This should be a single integer, the number to regions produced. This should be written to STDOUT or a file named O in the current directory.

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Rules

• Shortest code in bytes wins

• +200 byte penalty if your code does not have a runtime + space complexity polynomial in n

• -100 byte bonus for worst-case expected runtime + space complexity O(n log n)

• -50 byte bonus for worst-case expected runtime + space complexity O(n)

• -100 byte bonus for deterministic runtime + space complexity O(n)

While assessing the runtime:

• Assume that hash tables have O(1) expected runtime for insert, delete and lookup, regardless of the sequence of operations and the input data. This may or may not be true, depending on whether the implementation uses randomization.

• Assume that the builtin sort of your programming language takes deterministic O(n log n) time, where n is the size of the input sequence.

• Assume that arithmetic operations on input numbers take only O(1) time.

• Do not assume that input numbers are bound by a constant, although, for practical reasons, they are. This means that algorithms like radix sort or counting sort are not linear time. In general, very large constant factors should be avoided.

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Examples

Input:

2 
1 3
5 1

Output: 3

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Input:

3
2 2
1 1
3 1

Output: 5

4
7 5
-9 11
11 9
0 20

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Input:

9
38 14
-60 40
73 19
0 100
98 2
-15 5
39 15
-38 62
94 2

Output: 11

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Hints

We can use the following idea for a very compact solution. Lets intersect the set of circles with the X axis and interpret the intersection points as nodes in a planar graph:

Every circle produces exactly 2 edges in this graph and up to two nodes. We can count the number of nodes by using a hash table to keep track of the total number of distinct left or right borders.

Then we can use the Euler characteristic formula to compute the number of faces of a drawing of the graph:

V - E + F - C = 1

F = E - V + C + 1

To compute C, the number of connected components, we can use a depth-first search.

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^{Note: This problem idea is borrowed from a recent Croatian programming contest, but please don't cheat by looking at the solution outlines. :)}

Answer 1

Ruby - 312 306 285 273 269 259 characters

This answer has been superseded by my other approach which uses considerably less characters and runs in O(n log n).

Okay, let's go. For starters, I just wanted a working implementation, so this is not algorithmically optimised yet. I sort the circles from largest to smallest, and build a tree (circles included in other circles are children of those larger ones). Both operations take O(n^2) at worst and O(n log n) at best. Then I iterate through the tree to count areas. If the children of a circle fill up its entire diameter, there are two new areas, otherwise there is just one. This iteration take O(n). So I have overall complexity O(n^2) and qualify for neither reward nor penalty.

This code expects the input without the number of circles to be stored in a variable s:

t=[]
s.lines.map{|x|x,r=x.split.map &:to_i;{d:2*r,l:x-r,c:[]}}.sort_by!{|c|-c[:d]}.map{|c|i=-1;n=t
while o=n[i+=1]
if 0>d=c[:l]-o[:l]
break
elsif o[:d]>d
n=o[:c]
i=-1
end
end
n[i,0]=c}
a=1
t.map &(b=->n{d=0
n[:c].each{|c|d+=c[:d]}.map &b
a+=d==n[:d]?2:1})
p a

Ungolfed version (expects input in variable string):

list = []
string.split("\n").map { |x|
  m = x.split
  x,radius = m.map &:to_i
  list<<{x:x, d:2*radius, l:x-radius, r:x+radius, children:[]}
}
list.sort_by! { |circle| -circle[:d] }
tree = []
list.map { |circle|
  i = -1
  node = tree
  while c=node[i+=1]
    if circle[:x]<c[:l]
      break
    elsif circle[:x]<c[:r]
      node = c[:children]
      i = -1
    end
  end
  node[i,0] = circle
}
areas = 1
tree.map &(count = -> node {
  d = 0
  i = -1
  while c=node[:children][i+=1]
    count.call c
    d += c[:d]
  end
  areas += d == node[:d] ? 2 : 1
})
p areas

Answer 2

Mathematica, 125 122 - 150 = -28 chars

I don't know the complexity of the built-in function ConnectedComponents.

1+{-1,2,1}.Length/@{VertexList@#,EdgeList@#,ConnectedComponents@#}&@Graph[(+##)<->(#-#2)&@@@Rest@ImportString[#,"Table"]]&

Usage:

1+{-1,2,1}.Length/@{VertexList@#,EdgeList@#,ConnectedComponents@#}&@Graph[(+##)<->(#-#2)&@@@Rest@ImportString[#,"Table"]]&[
"9
38 14
-60 40
73 19
0 100
98 2
-15 5
39 15
-38 62
94 2"]

11

Answer 3

Ruby, 203 183 173 133 - 100 = 33 characters

So here is a different approach. This time, I sort the circles by their left-most point. Circles touching at their left-most point are sorted from largest to smallest. This takes O(n log n) (well, Ruby uses quick sort, so actually O(n^2) but implementing merge/heap sort is probably beyond the scope of this challenge). Then I iterate over this list, remembering all left-most and right-most positions of the circles I have visited. This allows me to detect if a series of circles connects all the way across an enclosing larger circle. In this case, there are two subareas, otherwise just one. This iteration takes only O(n) giving a total complexity of O(n log n) which qualifies for the 100 character reward.

This snippet expects the input to be supplied via a file in the command-line arguments without the number of circles:

l,r={},{}
a=1
$<.map{|x|c,q=x.split.map &:to_r;[c-q,-2*q]}.sort.map{|x,y|a+=r[y=x-y]&&l[x]?2:1
l[y]=1 if l[x]&&!r[y]
l[x]=r[y]=1}
p a

Ungolfed version (expects input in a variable string):

list = []
string.split("\n").map { |x|
  m = x.split
  x,radius = m.map &:to_r
  list<<{x:x, d:2*radius, l:x-radius, r:x+radius}
}
list.sort_by! { |circle| circle[:l] + 1/circle[:d] }
l,r={},{}
areas = 1
list.map { |circle|
  x,y=circle[:l],circle[:r]
  if l[x] && r[y]
    areas += 2
  else
    areas += 1
    l[y]=1 if l[x]
  end
  r[y]=1
  l[x]=1
}
p areas

Answer 4

Julia - 260 -100(bonus?) = 160

Interpreting the circles as figures with vertices (intersections), edges, and faces (areas of the plane) we can relate each other using Euler characteristic, so we only need to know the number of "vertices" and "edges" to have the number of "faces" or regions of the plane with the formula written below:

UPDATE: By thinking a while i figured out that the problem with my method was only when circles where not connected, so i came with an idea, why not artificially connect them? So the whole will satisfy the Euler formula.

F = 2+E-V (V=6, E=9)

[Dont work with nested circles, so its not an answer of the problem for general cases]

Code:

s=readlines(open("s"))
n=int(s[1])
c=zeros(n,2)
t=[]
for i=1:n
    a=int(split(s[i+1]))
    c[i,1]=a[1]-a[2]
    c[i,2]=a[1]+a[2]
    if i==1 t=[c[1]]end
    append!(t,[c[i,1]:.5:c[i,2]])
end
e=0
t=sort(t)
for i in 1:(length(t)-1) e+=t[i+1]-t[i]>=1?1:0end #adds one edge for every gap
2+2n+e-length(unique(c)) # 2+E-V = 2+(2n+e)-#vertices

Answer 5

Spidermonkey JS, 308, 287, 273 - 100 = 173

I think if I rewrote this in Ruby or Python I could save characters.

Code:

for(a=[d=readline],e={},u=d(n=1);u--;)[r,q]=d().split(' '),l=r-q,r-=-q,e[l]=e[l]||[0,0],e[r]=e[r]||[0,0],e[r][1]++,e[l][0]++
for(k=Object.keys(e).sort(function(a,b)b-a);i=k.pop();a.length&&a.pop()&a.push(0)){for([l,r]=e[i];r--;)n+=a.pop()
for(n+=l;l--;)a.push(l>0)}print(n)

Algorithm:

n = 1 // this will be the total
e = {x:[numLeftBounds,numRightBounds]} // imagine this as the x axis with a count of zero-crossings
a = [] // this is the stack of circles around the "cursor".  
       // values will be 1 if that circle's never had alone time, else 0
k = sort keys of e on x
for each key in k: // this is the "cursor"
  n += key[numLeftBounds] // each circle that opens has at least one space.
  k[numRightBounds].times {n += a.pop()} // pop the closing circles. if any were never alone, add 1
  k[numLeftBounds].times {a.push(alwaysAlone)} // push the opening circles
  if !a.empty():
     set the innermost circle (top of stack) to false (not never alone)
  fi
loop
  

I'm not terribly great at big O notation, but I think that's O(n) since I'm effectively looping through each circle 3 times (create, left, right) and also sorting the map's keys (and I sort for O(n log n) but that disappears). Is this deterministic?

Answer 6

JavaScript (ES6) - 255 254 Characters - 100 250 Bonus = 155 4

R=/(\S+) (\S+)/ym;N=1;i=w=l=0;for(X=[];m=R.exec(S);){X[N++]={w:j=m[2]*1,l:k=m[1]-j,r:k+2*j};l=k<l?k:l;w=j<w?w:j}M=[];X.map(x=>M[(x.l-l+1)*w-x.w]=x);s=[];M.map(x=>{while(i&&s[i-1].r<x.r)N+=s[--i].w?0:1;i&&(s[i-1].w-=x.w);s[i++]=x});while(i)N+=s[--i].w?0:1

Assumes that the input string is in the variable S and outputs the number of regions to the console.

R=/(\S+) (\S+)/ym;                  // Regular expression to find centre and width.
N=1;                                // Number of regions
w=l=0;                              // Maximum width and minimum left boundary.
X=[];                               // A 1-indexed array to contain the circles.
                                    // All the above are O(1)
for(;m=R.exec(S);){                 // For each circle
    X[N++]={w:j=m[2]*1,l:k=m[1]-j,r:k+2*j};
                                    // Create an object with w (width), l (left boundary)
                                    // and r (right boundary) attributes.
    l=k<l?k:l;                      // Update the minimum left boundary.
    w=j<w?w:j                       // Update the maximum width.
}                                   // O(1) per iteration = O(N) total.
M=[];                               // An array.
X.map(x=>M[(x.l-l+1)*w-x.w]=x);     // Map the 1-indexed array of circles (X) to a
                                    // sparse array indexed so that the elements are
                                    // sorted by ascending left boundary then descending
                                    // width.
                                    // If there are N circles then only N elements are
                                    // created in the array and it can be treated as if it
                                    // is a hashmap (associative array) with a built in
                                    // ordering and as per the rules set in the question
                                    // is O(1) per insert so is O(N) total cost.
                                    // Since the array is sparse then it is still O(N)
                                    // total memory.
s=[];                               // An empty stack
i=0;                                // The number of circles on the stack.
M.map(x=>{                          // Loop through each circle
    while(i&&s[i-1][1]<x[1])        // Check to see if the current circle  is to the right
                                    // of the circles on the stack;
      N+=s[--i][0]?0:1;             // if so, decrement the length of the stack and if the
                                    // circle that pops off has radius equal to the total
                                    // radii of its children then increment the number of
                                    // regions by 1.

                                    // Since there can be at most N items on the stack then
                                    // there can be at most N items popped off the stack
                                    // over all the iterations; therefore this operation
                                    // has an O(N) total cost.
    i&&(s[i-1][0]-=x[0]);           // If there is a circle on the stack then this circle
                                    // is its child. Decrement the parent's radius by the
                                    // current child's radius.
                                    // O(1) per iteration
    s[i++]=x                        // Add the current circle to the stack.
  });
while(i)N+=s[--i][0]?0:1            // Finally, remove all the remaining circles from the
                                    // stack and if the circle that pops off has radius
                                    // equal to the total radii of its children then
                                    // increment the number of regions by 1.
                                    // Since there will always be at least one circle on the
                                    // stack then this has the added bonus of being the final
                                    // command so the value of N is printed to the console.
                                    // As per the previous comment on the complexity, there
                                    // can be at most N items on the stack so between this
                                    // and the iterations over the circles then there can only
                                    // be N items popped off the stack so the complexity of
                                    // all these tests on the circles on the stack is O(N).

The time complexity is now O(N).

Test Case 1

S='2\n1 3\n5 1';
R=/(\S+) (\S+)/ym;N=1;i=w=l=0;for(X=[];m=R.exec(S);){X[N++]={w:j=m[2]*1,l:k=m[1]-j,r:k+2*j};l=k<l?k:l;w=j<w?w:j}M=[];X.map(x=>M[(x.l-l+1)*w-x.w]=x);s=[];M.map(x=>{while(i&&s[i-1].r<x.r)N+=s[--i].w?0:1;i&&(s[i-1].w-=x.w);s[i++]=x});while(i)N+=s[--i].w?0:1

Outputs: 3

Test Case 2

S='3\n2 2\n1 1\n3 1';
R=/(\S+) (\S+)/ym;N=1;i=w=l=0;for(X=[];m=R.exec(S);){X[N++]={w:j=m[2]*1,l:k=m[1]-j,r:k+2*j};l=k<l?k:l;w=j<w?w:j}M=[];X.map(x=>M[(x.l-l+1)*w-x.w]=x);s=[];M.map(x=>{while(i&&s[i-1].r<x.r)N+=s[--i].w?0:1;i&&(s[i-1].w-=x.w);s[i++]=x});while(i)N+=s[--i].w?0:1

Outputs: 5

Test Case 3

S='4\n7 5\n-9 11\n11 9\n0 20';
R=/(\S+) (\S+)/ym;N=1;i=w=l=0;for(X=[];m=R.exec(S);){X[N++]={w:j=m[2]*1,l:k=m[1]-j,r:k+2*j};l=k<l?k:l;w=j<w?w:j}M=[];X.map(x=>M[(x.l-l+1)*w-x.w]=x);s=[];M.map(x=>{while(i&&s[i-1].r<x.r)N+=s[--i].w?0:1;i&&(s[i-1].w-=x.w);s[i++]=x});while(i)N+=s[--i].w?0:1

Outputs: 6

Test Case 4

S='9\n38 14\n-60 40\n73 19\n0 100\n98 2\n-15 5\n39 15\n-38 62\n94 2';
R=/(\S+) (\S+)/ym;N=1;i=w=l=0;for(X=[];m=R.exec(S);){X[N++]={w:j=m[2]*1,l:k=m[1]-j,r:k+2*j};l=k<l?k:l;w=j<w?w:j}M=[];X.map(x=>M[(x.l-l+1)*w-x.w]=x);s=[];M.map(x=>{while(i&&s[i-1].r<x.r)N+=s[--i].w?0:1;i&&(s[i-1].w-=x.w);s[i++]=x});while(i)N+=s[--i].w?0:1

Outputs: 11

Test Case 5

S='87\n-730 4\n-836 2\n-889 1\n-913 15\n-883 5\n-908 8\n-507 77\n-922 2\n-786 2\n-782 2\n-762 22\n-776 2\n-781 3\n-913 3\n-830 2\n-756 4\n-970 30\n-755 5\n-494 506\n-854 4\n15 3\n-914 2\n-840 2\n-833 1\n-505 75\n-888 10\n-856 2\n-503 73\n-745 3\n-903 25\n-897 1\n-896 2\n-848 10\n-878 50\n-864 2\n0 1000\n-934 6\n-792 4\n-271 153\n-917 1\n-891 3\n-833 107\n-847 3\n-758 2\n-754 2\n-892 2\n-738 2\n-876 2\n-52 64\n-882 2\n-270 154\n-763 3\n-868 72\n-846 4\n-427 3\n-771 3\n-767 17\n-852 2\n-765 1\n-772 6\n-831 1\n-582 2\n-910 6\n-772 12\n-764 2\n-907 9\n-909 7\n-578 2\n-872 2\n-848 2\n-528 412\n-731 3\n-879 1\n-862 4\n-909 1\n16 4\n-779 1\n-654 68\n510 490\n-921 3\n-773 5\n-653 69\n-926 2\n-737 3\n-919 1\n-841 1\n-863 3';
R=/(\S+) (\S+)/ym;N=1;i=w=l=0;for(X=[];m=R.exec(S);){X[N++]={w:j=m[2]*1,l:k=m[1]-j,r:k+2*j};l=k<l?k:l;w=j<w?w:j}M=[];X.map(x=>M[(x.l-l+1)*w-x.w]=x);s=[];M.map(x=>{while(i&&s[i-1].r<x.r)N+=s[--i].w?0:1;i&&(s[i-1].w-=x.w);s[i++]=x});while(i)N+=s[--i].w?0:1

Outputs: 105

Previous Version

C=S.split('\n');N=1+C.shift()*1;s=[];C.map(x=>x.split(' ')).map(x=>[w=x[1]*1,x[i=0]*1+w]).sort((a,b)=>(c=a[1]-2*a[0])==(d=b[1]-2*b[0])?b[0]-a[0]:c-d).map(x=>{while(i&&s[i-1][1]<x[1])N+=s[--i][0]?0:1;i&&(s[i-1][0]-=x[0]);s[i++]=x});while(i)N+=s[--i][0]?0:1

With comments:

C=S.split('\n');                    // Split the input into an array on the newlines.
                                    // O(N)
N=1+C.shift()*1;                    // Remove the head of the array and store the value as
                                    // if there are N disjoint circles then there will be
                                    // N+1 regions.
                                    // At worst O(N) depending on how .shift() works.
s=[];                               // Initialise an empty stack.
                                    // O(1)
C .map(x=>x.split(' '))             // Split each line into an array of the two values.
                                    // O(1) per line = O(N) total.
  .map(x=>[w=x[1]*1,x[i=0]*1+w])    // Re-map the split values to an array storing the
                                    // radius and the right boundary.
                                    // O(1) per line = O(N) total.

  .sort((a,b)=>(c=a[1]-2*a[0])==(d=b[1]-2*b[0])?b[0]-a[0]:c-d)
                                    // Sort the circles on increasing left boundary and
                                    // then descending radius.
                                    // O(1) per comparison = O(N.log(N)) total.
  .map(x=>{                         // Loop through each circle
    while(i&&s[i-1][1]<x[1])        // Check to see if the current circle  is to the right
                                    // of the circles on the stack;
      N+=s[--i][0]?0:1;             // if so, decrement the length of the stack and if the
                                    // circle that pops off has radius equal to the total
                                    // radii of its children then increment the number of
                                    // regions by 1.

                                    // Since there can be at most N items on the stack then
                                    // there can be at most N items popped off the stack
                                    // over all the iterations; therefore this operation
                                    // has an O(N) total cost.
    i&&(s[i-1][0]-=x[0]);           // If there is a circle on the stack then this circle
                                    // is its child. Decrement the parent's radius by the
                                    // current child's radius.
                                    // O(1) per iteration
    s[i++]=x                        // Add the current circle to the stack.
  });
while(i)N+=s[--i][0]?0:1            // Finally, remove all the remaining circles from the
                                    // stack and if the circle that pops off has radius
                                    // equal to the total radii of its children then
                                    // increment the number of regions by 1.
                                    // Since there will always be at least one circle on the
                                    // stack then this has the added bonus of being the final
                                    // command so the value of N is printed to the console.
                                    // As per the previous comment on the complexity, there
                                    // can be at most N items on the stack so between this
                                    // and the iterations over the circles then there can only
                                    // be N items popped off the stack so the complexity of
                                    // all these tests on the circles on the stack is O(N).

The total time complexity is O(N) for everything except the sort which is O(N.log(N)) - however replacing this with a bucket sort, this will reduce the total complexity to O(N).

The memory required is O(N).

Guess what is next on my todo list... bucket sort in less than 150 characters. Done