Rotate ASCII Art by 45 Degrees

Question

Your task is to take an ASCII art image and output it rotated clockwise by 45 degrees and scaled by a factor of \$\sqrt 2\$. The scaling comes from using a lattice pattern which introduces space between the characters.

To explain it visually, a \$3 \times 3\$ block would be processed like so:

123
456
789

becomes

Characters will not be transformed, so boxes will look strange after rotation:

+-+
| |
+-+

becomes

  +
 | -
+   +
 - |
  +

To explain the process more explicitly, the output consists of a diamond lattice pattern where the top row corresponds to the top-left character of the input, the next row corresponds with the right and below neighbors, next row is those neighbors, and so forth until all of the characters have been placed on the lattice.

Examples

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Rules and Notes

Input and output may be in any convenient format and character encoding as long as it supports all printable ASCII characters (U+0020 - U+007E, LF)
You may assume the input contains only printable ASCII characters (defined above)
You must support art up to \$100 \times 100\$ characters.
You may assume the input is right-padded, as to be a perfect rectangular grid of characters.
- If it conveniences you, you may also assume the input is padded to be exactly \$100 \times 100\$ characters.
Use the ASCII space to align and space characters.
Characters may be overpadded (or even underpadded) in any direction as long as the result is properly aligned.

Happy Golfing!

you may want to use full-width characters so that after rotating it's still has a quite square shape Display characters on a square grid?, Converting full-width characters to half-width characters (perl, regex, Japanese) — phuclv, Apr 3, 2019 at 4:22
@Shaggy I'd say just related, but yeah, that bears a lot of similarities for sure. The only substantial difference is this challenge requires space padding in the output. In other news, you are impressively good at finding dupes. — Beefster, Apr 12, 2019 at 23:32
If that were true, I'd've found that challenge while this one was still in the Sanbox! I stumbled across it completely by accident while searching for a dupe of a challenge idea I had and instantly remembered yours. — Shaggy, Apr 13, 2019 at 19:59

Neil · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-02 19:01:10Z

19

Charcoal, 2 bytes

↘Ａ

Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Takes input as either a single newline-delimited string literal or as an array of strings. Explanation: Ａ reads the input and ↘ outputs it in the desired diagonal direction. Version which accepts a blank-line terminated list of lines from STDIN:

ＷＳ⊞υι↘υ

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answered Apr 2, 2019 at 19:01

Neil

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\$\begingroup\$ Wow. The right tool for the job. \$\endgroup\$
– moltarze
Nov 12, 2019 at 22:09
\$\begingroup\$ Wow! I wish I knew Cahrcoal existed before. Is there any docs or tutorial on Charcoal, by the way? \$\endgroup\$
– Nader Ghanbari
Feb 19, 2022 at 1:58
1

\$\begingroup\$ @NaderGhanbari Only what's in the wiki: github.com/somebody1234/Charcoal/wiki \$\endgroup\$
– Neil
Feb 19, 2022 at 7:36

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dzaima · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-02 18:23:48Z

11

Canvas, 6 bytes

／⤢ ＊＼⤢

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/        pad each line with one less space than the previous
 ⤢       transpose the object
   *     place a space between every character
    \    pad each line with one more space than the previous
     ⤢   transpose the object back

Example:

edited Apr 2, 2019 at 18:23

answered Apr 2, 2019 at 17:56

dzaima

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\$\begingroup\$ Are your code and explanation not using differing slashes? \$\endgroup\$
– Adám
Apr 2, 2019 at 18:21
\$\begingroup\$ @Adám I usually ASCII-fy the explanations for them to align better \$\endgroup\$
– dzaima
Apr 2, 2019 at 18:22

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hyper-neutrino · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03 16:17:34Z

6

Python 3.8 (pre-release), 104 bytes

lambda a:[" "*abs(l+~i)+" ".join(a[i-j][j]for j in range(i+1)if j<l>i-j)for i in range((l:=len(a))*2-1)]

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-5 bytes thanks to ovs (Python 3.8 things)

edited Apr 3, 2019 at 16:17

answered Apr 2, 2019 at 16:45

hyper-neutrino♦

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\$\begingroup\$ 5 bytes shorter in Python 3.8 \$\endgroup\$
– ovs
Apr 3, 2019 at 7:31
\$\begingroup\$ @ovs wait 3.8 is out? :o inline assignment. i like this. thanks! \$\endgroup\$
– hyper-neutrino ♦
Apr 3, 2019 at 16:17

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Galen Ivanov · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03 14:09:52Z

2

J, 56 45 bytes

-11 bytes thanks to FrownyFrog!

-@}:@(i.@-@#,#\@{.)|."_1+/@${."1|.@,@,.&' '/.

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edited Apr 3, 2019 at 14:09

answered Apr 3, 2019 at 10:47

Galen Ivanov

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\$\begingroup\$ here's 45 \$\endgroup\$
– FrownyFrog
Apr 3, 2019 at 13:33
\$\begingroup\$ @FrownyFrog Thank you! Brilliant as always! \$\endgroup\$
– Galen Ivanov
Apr 3, 2019 at 14:11

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

05AB1E, 18 12 bytes

RāRú€Sζðýāú»

Port of @dzaima's Canvas answer, so make sure to upvote him!!

Input as a list of lines.

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Explanation:

R             # Reverse the (implicit) input-list
 ā            # Push a list in the range [1, length of input-list],
              # without popping the list itself
  R           # Reverse this list to [length, 1]
   ú          # Pad the reversed input-list with that many leading spaces
    €S        # Split each string on spaces
      ζ       # Zip/transpose; swapping rows/columns, with space default as filler
       ðý     # Join each inner character-list by spaces
         ā    # Push a list in the range [1, length of this string-list],
              # without popping the list itself
          ú   # Pad the list of strings with that many leading spaces
           »  # Join the string-list by newlines (and output the result implicitly)

Original 18 17 bytes answer:

€g2.ýIεNFR]JŽE5SΛ

Input as a list of lines.

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Explanation:

€g     # Get the length of each line of the (implicit) input
       # (assumes they are all padded with spaces to make them of equal length)
  2.ý  # Intersperse this list with 2 (i.e. [3,3,3] becomes [3,2,3,2,3])
Iε     # Map the strings in the input to:
  NF   #  Loop the 0-based index amount of times:
    R  #   And reverse the current string that many times
 ]J    # After the loop and map: join the strings to a single string
ŽE5S   # Push compressed integer 3575, converted to a list of digits: [3,5,7,5]
Λ      # Use the canvas with these three options (which is output immediately by default)

See this 05AB1E tip of mine (section How to compress large integers?) to understand why ŽE5 is 3575.

Some more info about the 05AB1E Canvas builtin can be found in this tip of mine.

The Canvas builtin takes three parameters:

\$a\$ Length: The size(s) of the line(s). This can be a single integer, or a list of integers
\$b\$ String: The character(s) we want to display. This can be a single character, a string, a list of characters, or a list of strings (in the last three cases it will use all of them one-by-one including wrap-around)
\$c\$ Direction: The direction the character-lines should be drawn in. In general we have the digits [0,7] for the directions, for which we can use one or multiple. There are also some special options that require a certain character (+, ×, 8).

In this challenge I use the following options:

\$c\$: Let's start with the directions. For this I use \$[3,5,7,5]\$ which translates to \$[↘,↙,↖↙]\$. This means the string is printed in the following matter:

     S
      ↘
   ↙↖   ↘
   ↘   ↖  ↘
↙↖   ↘   ↖↙
↘  ↖   ↘
  .  ↖ ↙
    .

\$b\$: Since we print in this direction, this means the list of strings we input has to be modified slightly, which is what we do with the reverse on each 0-based odd-indexed string in the list.

\$a\$: Finally, the lengths of how it is printed. This will be the length of each lines for the directions \$3\$ (\$↘\$) and \$7\$ (\$↖\$). The \$2\$ for the directions \$5\$ (\$↙\$), which means to print one character (with a character overlap of the trailing part of the previous line) in a south-west direction, and then we print the next line (with again one character overlap, hence the use of \$2\$ instead of \$1\$). This overlapping is better explained in the tip I linked earlier.

@Razetime Hehe, probably not much, since Zim programs are usually pretty big. Pretty interesting language. — Kevin Cruijssen, Aug 27, 2020 at 7:06

Nick Kennedy · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-02 20:32:29Z

0

Jelly, 26 bytes

JU’;ZJ$x@€⁶ðżµUŒDUṙLN‘ƊṚK€

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answered Apr 2, 2019 at 20:32

Nick Kennedy

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Erik the Outgolfer · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03 16:00:49Z

0

Jelly, 19 bytes

ỴṚµLḶṚŒḄ⁶ẋżŒDṙLK€ƲY

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answered Apr 3, 2019 at 16:00

Erik the Outgolfer

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Birjolaxew · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-04 10:43:23Z

0

JavaScript (ES6), 102 bytes

f=
s=>(z=[...Array(100)],o=z.map(v=>z.map(_=>" ")),s.map((r,y)=>r.map((c,x)=>o[y+x][s.length+~y+x]=c)),o)

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Input and output as list of lists.

Explanation:

Creates a 100x100 grid of spaces. Then loops through the input, setting the appropriate entry in the grid. The index of the character to set is calculated as x' = length of input - 1 + y + x and y' = y + x.

The returned result is a 100x100 list of lists, with the output in the upper left corner.

edited Apr 4, 2019 at 10:43

answered Apr 4, 2019 at 10:12

Birjolaxew

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G B · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-04 12:50:29Z

0

Ruby, 94 bytes

->l{w=(2..y=l.size+b=l[z=0].size).map{' '*y};l.map{|r|b.times{|x|w[x+z][b+~z+x]=r[x]};z+=1};w}

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edited Apr 4, 2019 at 12:50

answered Apr 4, 2019 at 12:30

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Scott Armand · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05 00:25:20Z

0

C# (Visual C# Interactive Compiler), 153 bytes

z=>{var m=new char[100,100];var s=z.Split('\n');var l=s[0].Length;for(int x=0;x<l-1;x++)for(int y=0;y<s.GetLength(0);y++)m[x+y,l+~y+x]=s[y][x];return m;}

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Asks for a string and returns a 2D char 100 x 100 array.

I tried using LINQ/Collections, but I eventually give up.

answered Apr 5, 2019 at 0:25

Scott Armand

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Keyu Gan · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05 19:12:03Z

0

Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 79 bytes

SparseArray[100+{#2+#,#2-#}&@@#&/@Range@100~Tuples~2->Flatten@#,{301,301}," "]&

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The input should be padded as exactly 100x100. The output is an array of 301x301. The result of rotating sonic (with proper formatting):

answered Apr 5, 2019 at 19:12

Keyu Gan

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Rotate ASCII Art by 45 Degrees

Examples

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11 Answers 11

Charcoal, 2 bytes

Canvas, 6 bytes

Python 3.8 (pre-release), 104 bytes

J, 56 45 bytes

05AB1E, 18 12 bytes

Jelly, 26 bytes

Jelly, 19 bytes

JavaScript (ES6), 102 bytes

Ruby, 94 bytes

C# (Visual C# Interactive Compiler), 153 bytes

Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 79 bytes

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Charcoal, 2 bytes

Canvas, 6 bytes

Python 3.8 (pre-release), 104 bytes

J, 56 45 bytes

05AB1E, 18 12 bytes

Jelly, 26 bytes

Jelly, 19 bytes

JavaScript (ES6), 102 bytes

Ruby, 94 bytes

C# (Visual C# Interactive Compiler), 153 bytes

Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 79 bytes

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