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1 ;;; hanoi.el --- towers of hanoi in Emacs
3 ;; Author: Damon Anton Permezel
4 ;; Maintainer: FSF
5 ;; Keywords: games
7 ; Author (a) 1985, Damon Anton Permezel
8 ; This is in the public domain
9 ; since he distributed it in 1985 without copyright notice.
10 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
12 ; Support for horizontal poles, large numbers of rings, real-time,
13 ; faces, defcustom, and Towers of Unix added in 1999 by Alakazam
14 ; Petrofsky <Alakazam@Petrofsky.Berkeley.CA.US>.
16 ;;; Commentary:
18 ;; Solves the Towers of Hanoi puzzle while-U-wait.
20 ;; The puzzle: Start with N rings, decreasing in sizes from bottom to
21 ;; top, stacked around a post. There are two other posts. Your mission,
22 ;; should you choose to accept it, is to shift the pile, stacked in its
23 ;; original order, to another post.
25 ;; The challenge is to do it in the fewest possible moves. Each move
26 ;; shifts one ring to a different post. But there's a rule; you can
27 ;; only stack a ring on top of a larger one.
29 ;; The simplest nontrivial version of this puzzle is N = 3. Solution
30 ;; time rises as 2**N, and programs to solve it have long been considered
31 ;; classic introductory exercises in the use of recursion.
33 ;; The puzzle is called `Towers of Hanoi' because an early popular
34 ;; presentation wove a fanciful legend around it. According to this
35 ;; myth (uttered long before the Vietnam War), there is a Buddhist
36 ;; monastery at Hanoi which contains a large room with three time-worn
37 ;; posts in it surrounded by 21 golden discs. Monks, acting out the
38 ;; command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in
39 ;; accordance with the rules of the puzzle, once every day since the
40 ;; monastery was founded over a thousand years ago. They are said to
41 ;; believe that when the last move of the puzzle is completed, the
42 ;; world will end in a clap of thunder. Fortunately, they are nowhere
43 ;; even close to being done...
45 ;; 1999 addition: The `Towers of Unix' command (hanoi-unix) stems from
46 ;; the never-disproven legend of a Eunuch monastery at Princeton that
47 ;; contains a large air-conditioned room with three time-worn posts in
48 ;; it surrounded by 32 silicon discs. Nimble monks, acting out the
49 ;; command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in
50 ;; accordance with the rules of the puzzle, once every second since
51 ;; the monastery was founded almost a billion seconds ago. They are
52 ;; said to believe that when the last move of the puzzle is completed,
53 ;; the world will reboot in a clap of thunder. Actually, because the
54 ;; bottom disc is blocked by the "Do not feed the monks" sign, it is
55 ;; believed the End will come at the time that disc is to be moved...
57 ;;; Code:
59 (eval-when-compile
60 (require 'cl)
61 ;; dynamic bondage:
62 (defvar baseward-step)
63 (defvar fly-step)
64 (defvar fly-row-start)
65 (defvar pole-width)
66 (defvar pole-char)
67 (defvar line-offset))
69 (defgroup hanoi nil
70 "The Towers of Hanoi."
71 :group 'games)
73 (defcustom hanoi-horizontal-flag nil
74 "If non-nil, hanoi poles are oriented horizontally."
75 :group 'hanoi :type 'boolean)
77 (defcustom hanoi-move-period 1.0
78 "Time, in seconds, for each pole-to-pole move of a ring.
79 If nil, move rings as fast as possible while displaying all
80 intermediate positions."
81 :group 'hanoi :type '(restricted-sexp :match-alternatives (numberp 'nil)))
83 (defcustom hanoi-use-faces nil
84 "If nil, all hanoi-*-face variables are ignored."
85 :group 'hanoi :type 'boolean)
87 (defcustom hanoi-pole-face 'highlight
88 "Face for poles. Ignored if hanoi-use-faces is nil."
89 :group 'hanoi :type 'face)
91 (defcustom hanoi-base-face 'highlight
92 "Face for base. Ignored if hanoi-use-faces is nil."
93 :group 'hanoi :type 'face)
95 (defcustom hanoi-even-ring-face 'region
96 "Face for even-numbered rings. Ignored if hanoi-use-faces is nil."
97 :group 'hanoi :type 'face)
99 (defcustom hanoi-odd-ring-face 'secondary-selection
100 "Face for odd-numbered rings. Ignored if hanoi-use-faces is nil."
101 :group 'hanoi :type 'face)
105 ;;; hanoi - user callable Towers of Hanoi
107 ;;;###autoload
108 (defun hanoi (nrings)
109 "Towers of Hanoi diversion. Use NRINGS rings."
110 (interactive
111 (list (if (null current-prefix-arg)
113 (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg))))
114 (if (< nrings 0)
115 (error "Negative number of rings"))
116 (hanoi-internal nrings (make-list nrings 0) (float-time)))
118 ;;;###autoload
119 (defun hanoi-unix ()
120 "Towers of Hanoi, UNIX doomsday version.
121 Displays 32-ring towers that have been progressing at one move per
122 second since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT.
124 Repent before ring 31 moves."
125 (interactive)
126 (let* ((start (ftruncate (float-time)))
127 (bits (loop repeat 32
128 for x = (/ start (expt 2.0 31)) then (* x 2.0)
129 collect (truncate (mod x 2.0))))
130 (hanoi-move-period 1.0))
131 (hanoi-internal 32 bits start)))
133 ;;;###autoload
134 (defun hanoi-unix-64 ()
135 "Like hanoi-unix, but pretend to have a 64-bit clock.
136 This is, necessarily (as of Emacs 20.3), a crock. When the
137 current-time interface is made s2G-compliant, hanoi.el will need
138 to be updated."
139 (interactive)
140 (let* ((start (ftruncate (float-time)))
141 (bits (loop repeat 64
142 for x = (/ start (expt 2.0 63)) then (* x 2.0)
143 collect (truncate (mod x 2.0))))
144 (hanoi-move-period 1.0))
145 (hanoi-internal 64 bits start)))
147 (defun hanoi-internal (nrings bits start-time)
148 "Towers of Hanoi internal interface. Use NRINGS rings.
149 Start after n steps, where BITS is a big-endian list of the bits of n.
150 BITS must be of length nrings. Start at START-TIME."
151 (switch-to-buffer "*Hanoi*")
152 (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
153 (setq show-trailing-whitespace nil)
154 (unwind-protect
155 (let*
156 (;; These lines can cause Emacs to crash if you ask for too
157 ;; many rings. If you uncomment them, on most systems you
158 ;; can get 10,000+ rings.
159 ;;(max-specpdl-size (max max-specpdl-size (* nrings 15)))
160 ;;(max-lisp-eval-depth (max max-lisp-eval-depth (+ nrings 20)))
161 (vert (not hanoi-horizontal-flag))
162 (pole-width (length (format "%d" (max 0 (1- nrings)))))
163 (pole-char (if vert ?\| ?\-))
164 (base-char (if vert ?\= ?\|))
165 (base-len (max (+ 8 (* pole-width 3))
166 (1- (if vert (window-width) (window-height)))))
167 (max-ring-diameter (/ (- base-len 2) 3))
168 (pole1-coord (/ max-ring-diameter 2))
169 (pole2-coord (/ base-len 2))
170 (pole3-coord (- base-len (/ (1+ max-ring-diameter) 2)))
171 (pole-coords (list pole1-coord pole2-coord pole3-coord))
172 ;; Number of lines displayed below the bottom-most rings.
173 (base-lines
174 (min 3 (max 0 (- (1- (if vert (window-height) (window-width)))
175 (+ 2 nrings)))))
177 ;; These variables will be set according to hanoi-horizontal-flag:
179 ;; line-offset is the number of characters per line in the buffer.
180 line-offset
181 ;; fly-row-start is the buffer position of the leftmost or
182 ;; uppermost position in the fly row.
183 fly-row-start
184 ;; Adding fly-step to a buffer position moves you one step
185 ;; along the fly row in the direction from pole1 to pole2.
186 fly-step
187 ;; Adding baseward-step to a buffer position moves you one step
188 ;; toward the base.
189 baseward-step
191 (setq buffer-read-only nil)
192 (erase-buffer)
193 (setq truncate-lines t)
194 (if hanoi-horizontal-flag
195 (progn
196 (setq line-offset (+ base-lines nrings 3))
197 (setq fly-row-start (1- line-offset))
198 (setq fly-step line-offset)
199 (setq baseward-step -1)
200 (loop repeat base-len do
201 (unless (zerop base-lines)
202 (insert-char ?\ (1- base-lines))
203 (insert base-char)
204 (hanoi-put-face (1- (point)) (point) hanoi-base-face))
205 (insert-char ?\ (+ 2 nrings))
206 (insert ?\n))
207 (delete-char -1)
208 (loop for coord in pole-coords do
209 (loop for row from (- coord (/ pole-width 2))
210 for start = (+ (* row line-offset) base-lines 1)
211 repeat pole-width do
212 (subst-char-in-region start (+ start nrings 1)
213 ?\ pole-char)
214 (hanoi-put-face start (+ start nrings 1)
215 hanoi-pole-face))))
216 ;; vertical
217 (setq line-offset (1+ base-len))
218 (setq fly-step 1)
219 (setq baseward-step line-offset)
220 (let ((extra-lines (- (1- (window-height)) (+ nrings 2) base-lines)))
221 (insert-char ?\n (max 0 extra-lines))
222 (setq fly-row-start (point))
223 (insert-char ?\ base-len)
224 (insert ?\n)
225 (loop repeat (1+ nrings)
226 with pole-line =
227 (loop with line = (make-string base-len ?\ )
228 for coord in pole-coords
229 for start = (- coord (/ pole-width 2))
230 for end = (+ start pole-width) do
231 (hanoi-put-face start end hanoi-pole-face line)
232 (loop for i from start below end do
233 (aset line i pole-char))
234 finally return line)
235 do (insert pole-line ?\n))
236 (insert-char base-char base-len)
237 (hanoi-put-face (- (point) base-len) (point) hanoi-base-face)
238 (set-window-start (selected-window)
239 (1+ (* baseward-step
240 (max 0 (- extra-lines)))))))
242 (let
243 (;; each pole is a pair of buffer positions:
244 ;; the car is the position of the top ring currently on the pole,
245 ;; (or the base of the pole if it is empty).
246 ;; the cdr is in the fly-row just above the pole.
247 (poles (loop for coord in pole-coords
248 for fly-pos = (+ fly-row-start (* fly-step coord))
249 for base = (+ fly-pos (* baseward-step (+ 2 nrings)))
250 collect (cons base fly-pos)))
251 ;; compute the string for each ring and make the list of
252 ;; ring pairs. Each ring pair is initially (str . diameter).
253 ;; Once placed in buffer it is changed to (center-pos . diameter).
254 (rings
255 (loop
256 ;; radii are measured from the edge of the pole out.
257 ;; So diameter = 2 * radius + pole-width. When
258 ;; there's room, we make each ring's radius =
259 ;; pole-number + 1. If there isn't room, we step
260 ;; evenly from the max radius down to 1.
261 with max-radius = (min nrings
262 (/ (- max-ring-diameter pole-width) 2))
263 for n from (1- nrings) downto 0
264 for radius = (1+ (/ (* n max-radius) nrings))
265 for diameter = (+ pole-width (* 2 radius))
266 with format-str = (format "%%0%dd" pole-width)
267 for str = (concat (if vert "<" "^")
268 (make-string (1- radius) (if vert ?\- ?\|))
269 (format format-str n)
270 (make-string (1- radius) (if vert ?\- ?\|))
271 (if vert ">" "v"))
272 for face =
273 (if (eq (logand n 1) 1) ; oddp would require cl at runtime
274 hanoi-odd-ring-face hanoi-even-ring-face)
275 do (hanoi-put-face 0 (length str) face str)
276 collect (cons str diameter)))
277 ;; Disable display of line and column numbers, for speed.
278 (line-number-mode nil) (column-number-mode nil))
279 ;; do it!
280 (hanoi-n bits rings (car poles) (cadr poles) (caddr poles)
281 start-time))
282 (message "Done"))
283 (setq buffer-read-only t)
284 (force-mode-line-update)))
286 (defun hanoi-put-face (start end value &optional object)
287 "If hanoi-use-faces is non-nil, call put-text-property for face property."
288 (if hanoi-use-faces
289 (put-text-property start end 'face value object)))
292 ;;; Functions with a start-time argument (hanoi-0, hanoi-n, and
293 ;;; hanoi-move-ring) start working at start-time and return the ending
294 ;;; time. If hanoi-move-period is nil, start-time is ignored and the
295 ;;; return value is junk.
298 ;;; hanoi-0 - work horse of hanoi
299 (defun hanoi-0 (rings from to work start-time)
300 (if (null rings)
301 start-time
302 (hanoi-0 (cdr rings) work to from
303 (hanoi-move-ring (car rings) from to
304 (hanoi-0 (cdr rings) from work to start-time)))))
306 ;; start after n moves, where BITS is a big-endian list of the bits of n.
307 ;; BITS must be of same length as rings.
308 (defun hanoi-n (bits rings from to work start-time)
309 (cond ((null rings)
310 ;; All rings have been placed in starting positions. Update display.
311 (hanoi-sit-for 0)
312 start-time)
313 ((zerop (car bits))
314 (hanoi-insert-ring (car rings) from)
315 (hanoi-0 (cdr rings) work to from
316 (hanoi-move-ring (car rings) from to
317 (hanoi-n (cdr bits) (cdr rings) from work to
318 start-time))))
320 (hanoi-insert-ring (car rings) to)
321 (hanoi-n (cdr bits) (cdr rings) work to from start-time))))
323 ;; put never-before-placed RING on POLE and update their cars.
324 (defun hanoi-insert-ring (ring pole)
325 (decf (car pole) baseward-step)
326 (let ((str (car ring))
327 (start (- (car pole) (* (/ (cdr ring) 2) fly-step))))
328 (setcar ring (car pole))
329 (loop for pos upfrom start by fly-step
330 for i below (cdr ring) do
331 (subst-char-in-region pos (1+ pos) (char-after pos) (aref str i))
332 (set-text-properties pos (1+ pos) (text-properties-at i str)))
333 (hanoi-goto-char (car pole))))
335 ;; like goto-char, but if position is outside the window, then move to
336 ;; corresponding position in the first row displayed.
337 (defun hanoi-goto-char (pos)
338 (goto-char (if (or hanoi-horizontal-flag (<= (window-start) pos))
340 (+ (window-start) (% (- pos fly-row-start) baseward-step)))))
342 ;; do one pole-to-pole move and update the ring and pole pairs.
343 (defun hanoi-move-ring (ring from to start-time)
344 (incf (car from) baseward-step)
345 (decf (car to) baseward-step)
346 (let* ;; We move flywards-steps steps up the pole to the fly row,
347 ;; then fly fly-steps steps across the fly row, then go
348 ;; baseward-steps steps down the new pole.
349 ((flyward-steps (/ (- (car ring) (cdr from)) baseward-step))
350 (fly-steps (abs (/ (- (cdr to) (cdr from)) fly-step)))
351 (directed-fly-step (/ (- (cdr to) (cdr from)) fly-steps))
352 (baseward-steps (/ (- (car to) (cdr to)) baseward-step))
353 ;; A step is a character cell. A tick is a time-unit. To
354 ;; make horizontal and vertical motion appear roughly the
355 ;; same speed, we allow one tick per horizontal step and two
356 ;; ticks per vertical step.
357 (ticks-per-pole-step (if hanoi-horizontal-flag 1 2))
358 (ticks-per-fly-step (if hanoi-horizontal-flag 2 1))
359 (flyward-ticks (* ticks-per-pole-step flyward-steps))
360 (fly-ticks (* ticks-per-fly-step fly-steps))
361 (baseward-ticks (* ticks-per-pole-step baseward-steps))
362 (total-ticks (+ flyward-ticks fly-ticks baseward-ticks))
363 (tick-to-pos
364 ;; Return the buffer position of the ring after TICK ticks.
365 (lambda (tick)
366 (cond
367 ((<= tick flyward-ticks)
368 (+ (cdr from)
369 (* baseward-step
370 (- flyward-steps (/ tick ticks-per-pole-step)))))
371 ((<= tick (+ flyward-ticks fly-ticks))
372 (+ (cdr from)
373 (* directed-fly-step
374 (/ (- tick flyward-ticks) ticks-per-fly-step))))
376 (+ (cdr to)
377 (* baseward-step
378 (/ (- tick flyward-ticks fly-ticks)
379 ticks-per-pole-step))))))))
380 (if hanoi-move-period
381 (loop for elapsed = (- (float-time) start-time)
382 while (< elapsed hanoi-move-period)
383 with tick-period = (/ (float hanoi-move-period) total-ticks)
384 for tick = (ceiling (/ elapsed tick-period)) do
385 (hanoi-ring-to-pos ring (funcall tick-to-pos tick))
386 (hanoi-sit-for (- (* tick tick-period) elapsed)))
387 (loop for tick from 1 to total-ticks by 2 do
388 (hanoi-ring-to-pos ring (funcall tick-to-pos tick))
389 (hanoi-sit-for 0)))
390 ;; Always make last move to keep pole and ring data consistent
391 (hanoi-ring-to-pos ring (car to))
392 (if hanoi-move-period (+ start-time hanoi-move-period))))
394 ;; update display and pause, quitting with a pithy comment if the user
395 ;; hits a key.
396 (defun hanoi-sit-for (seconds)
397 (unless (sit-for seconds)
398 (signal 'quit '("I can tell you've had enough"))))
400 ;; move ring to a given buffer position and update ring's car.
401 (defun hanoi-ring-to-pos (ring pos)
402 (unless (= (car ring) pos)
403 (let* ((start (- (car ring) (* (/ (cdr ring) 2) fly-step)))
404 (new-start (- pos (- (car ring) start))))
405 (if hanoi-horizontal-flag
406 (loop for i below (cdr ring)
407 for j = (if (< new-start start) i (- (cdr ring) i 1))
408 for old-pos = (+ start (* j fly-step))
409 for new-pos = (+ new-start (* j fly-step)) do
410 (transpose-regions old-pos (1+ old-pos) new-pos (1+ new-pos)))
411 (let ((end (+ start (cdr ring)))
412 (new-end (+ new-start (cdr ring))))
413 (if (< (abs (- new-start start)) (- end start))
414 ;; Overlap. Adjust bounds
415 (if (< start new-start)
416 (setq new-start end)
417 (setq new-end start)))
418 (transpose-regions start end new-start new-end t))))
419 ;; If moved on or off a pole, redraw pole chars.
420 (unless (eq (hanoi-pos-on-tower-p (car ring)) (hanoi-pos-on-tower-p pos))
421 (let* ((pole-start (- (car ring) (* fly-step (/ pole-width 2))))
422 (pole-end (+ pole-start (* fly-step pole-width)))
423 (on-pole (hanoi-pos-on-tower-p (car ring)))
424 (new-char (if on-pole pole-char ?\ ))
425 (curr-char (if on-pole ?\ pole-char))
426 (face (if on-pole hanoi-pole-face nil)))
427 (if hanoi-horizontal-flag
428 (loop for pos from pole-start below pole-end by line-offset do
429 (subst-char-in-region pos (1+ pos) curr-char new-char)
430 (hanoi-put-face pos (1+ pos) face))
431 (subst-char-in-region pole-start pole-end curr-char new-char)
432 (hanoi-put-face pole-start pole-end face))))
433 (setcar ring pos))
434 (hanoi-goto-char pos))
436 ;; Check if a buffer position lies on a tower (vis. in the fly row).
437 (defun hanoi-pos-on-tower-p (pos)
438 (if hanoi-horizontal-flag
439 (/= (% pos fly-step) fly-row-start)
440 (>= pos (+ fly-row-start baseward-step))))
442 (provide 'hanoi)
444 ;;; hanoi.el ends here