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This challenge involves creating or parsing pictures using text characters as the paint. Typically this uses only 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963.
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Make a floor plan given the number of doorways
Output a floorplan of a house given the number of doorways of each room[1]. Every room is a square, and has 0 to 4 doorways. There are never doorways to the outside.
Given this input:
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Output the holes
Copy the holes
Write a program/function to output pieces that would fill the holes in a given shape.
For example, given this shape:
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Generate a text shape with given area and perimeter
Write a function/program to generate an ASCII art shape with a given area and perimeter, using # and (space) characters.
Each <...
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Ray's intersecting lines
Ray has created some ASCII lines which he is using to draw with on a canvas.
His canvas can be any width and height between 1 to 100 characters (the borders do not count towards these dimensions). He ...
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Print Dyck paths
Definition
A Dyck path of length \$2n\$ can be defined as a two-dimensional path such that:
The path consists of straight lines of equal length.
The path goes left to right while moving either up or ...
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Increment an ASCII-art number
Write a program or function that increments an integer. The input and output must be in one of the ASCII art fonts provided below.
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Draw a hex grid of a given size
Your task is to draw a requested number of cells in a flat-topped/pointy-sided hex pattern. Each cell is 5 characters high and 8 characters wide (4 characters wide at the top and bottom).
This is a ...
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Box drawing number display
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Display words using 7-segment display
Seven Slash Display
My first challenge
Using the box drawing symbols (─│┌┐└┘├┤┬┴┼╴╵╶╷ or ...
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Bring back cup stacking
Do you remember cup stacking? Young competitors compete to see how quickly they can arrange 12 upside-down plastic cups into three consecutive arrangements of cup pyramids.
The number of each cups in ...
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Draw all 11 cube nets
There are 11 ways of flattening a cube onto a flat surface, like a piece of paper, which can then be folded back up into a cube. Each of these is called a cube net.
Your task is to write a program or ...
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Make a textual Paint-like program
Write a program/function that can help users make simple drawings by moving a cursor contained within a grid of characters, and by selecting which characters should be at a specific position.
Expected ...
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Draw an ASCII "analog-digital" clock
Write a function (or a whole program) that, given the hour and minute (in any reasonable format) outputs (or prints) the "analog-digital" corresponding clock.
Example:
Input: 08:25
Output:
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The Graphing Calculator 3: Revenge Of The I/O
PT 1
PT 2
PT 3
Last time, your challenge was to make a simple quadratic calculator, building on PT 1's simple line calculator...
But continuing on the theme of increasing complexity (Hey, wait... is ...
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Superimposed triangles
Because \$k^2\$ is the sum of the \$k\$ first odd positive integers, squared numbers can be represented as ASCII-art triangles of height \$k\$ as follows:
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