Editorial for Baltic OI '01 P5 - Mars Maps
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Submitting an official solution before solving the problem yourself is a bannable offence.
Submitting an official solution before solving the problem yourself is a bannable offence.
The intended solution passes all vertical lines in increasing order of their x values and keeps a list of active y intervals. At each "stop", i.e. for every vertical line, it does the following:
- multiply the x distance to the previous stop with the size of the interval that is the union of all active y intervals,
- add the result of this multiplication to the total result,
- update the set of active y intervals.
The scan line is implemented as a full binary tree over range (whole structure is hidden in array, like in standard heap implementation). Every node of the tree consists:
- number of edges which cover whole interval
- summary length of covered space in the interval defined by subtree of vertex
The complexity of this solution is , where is the maximum y coordinate.
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