Al_B on 28/6/2010 at 11:58
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
Damn him.
Yes, I know - but I was still impressed.
Quote Posted by dvrabel
What algorithm have people used to solve Rocket Plane?
I had basically the same algorithm but
used a yellow marker to indicate that a swap had taken place and only exiting once the data pattern contained no yellow.. My friend used something much closer to
an insertion sort which required only 11 active pieces.
Nameless Voice on 28/6/2010 at 12:33
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
Damn him.
Very much so.
All your talk gave me a new idea on how to approach it, and I got mine down from 19 parts to 17 parts. Just... one... less...
Shadowcat on 28/6/2010 at 12:44
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Just... one... less...
...and then only another two less after that to match the record ;)
Nameless Voice on 28/6/2010 at 12:56
Oh, gahhhhh I missed that part. :(
Edit: Wait, what? No, that was 14 active pieces. My solution has only 10. The rest are conveyors.
Edit #2: That fewest pieces list makes all my efforts seem pointless. :(
Shadowcat on 28/6/2010 at 13:29
I figure that it's all good problem-solving and lateral thinking exercise; and if there are smarter people than me coming up with smaller solutions, well... that's okay :) Admittedly, I'm am quite keen to see if I can figure out how to do this 14-piece Rocket Planes. It seems like a sufficiently small problem set to apply myself to without going completely insane :)
Al_B on 28/6/2010 at 18:08
Agreed - I'm also very keen not to look at any solutions until I've done the best I can with them. I've managed to get rocket planes down to 15 parts in total so just need to remove one more...
Tenkahubu on 29/6/2010 at 22:22
Anyone else been called a cheater? my set for 'androids' made the mal-eng say it "saw what you did there" and that it was "very disappointed in you - cheater!" I don't see any reason why my strategy was so abhorrent to it???
Al_B on 29/6/2010 at 22:41
No - but that sounds interesting. Can you post your map code for that level?
Tenkahubu on 30/6/2010 at 07:59
Yeah, I meant to do it right away but was too tired.
This is my machine: (
http://yfrog.com/5kandroidsj)
I was getting frustrated with my other approaches to this level so I tried a simple one. I know it's not very refined. The important stuff starts in the right hand corner where I
change all reds into yellows, then send the bots up a strip where they must come back by as many yellows as the number of blues they have taken.As you can see, it is not a perfect machine. Very long threads would beat it, but it did pass the tests. Anyway, it's hardly cheating!
If you recreate it you should see this: (
http://img63.imageshack.us/i/cheaterq.jpg/)
Inline Image:
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/5687/cheaterq.th.jpgShadowcat on 30/6/2010 at 08:16
Hilarious :)
