Advent of Code 2019 Solution Megathread - Day 24: Planet of Discord

Jon Bristow - Dec 24 '19 - - Dev Community

We're nearly there! And it's Conway with a late entry!

Day 24 - The Problem

Hail Eris! We're on the last planet before we get to Santa!

Unfortunately, we also have a bug problem.

In Part 1, we need to apply some generative rules to a field of points where critters magically live and die based upon the status of their neighbors. We also need to calculate a score based upon their position at the first sign of a loop in their lifecycle!

Those Plutoers (Plutesians? Plutannescos?) must have been here, though... It turns out these critters are generating in recursive space! In Part 2 we need to simulate 200 ticks of the infinitely recursive plane.

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