1;;; hanoi.el --- towers of hanoi in Emacs
2
3;; Author: Damon Anton Permezel
4;; Maintainer: FSF
5;; Keywords: games
6
7; Author (a) 1985, Damon Anton Permezel
8; This is in the public domain
9; since he distributed it without copyright notice in 1985.
10;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
11;
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>.
15
16;;; Commentary:
17
18;; Solves the Towers of Hanoi puzzle while-U-wait.
19;;
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.
24;;
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.
28;;
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.
32;;
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...
44;;
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...
56
57;;; Code:
58
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))
68
69(defgroup hanoi nil
70  "The Towers of Hanoi."
71  :group 'games)
72
73(defcustom hanoi-horizontal-flag nil
74  "*If non-nil, hanoi poles are oriented horizontally."
75  :group 'hanoi :type 'boolean)
76
77(defcustom hanoi-move-period 1.0
78  "*Time, in seconds, for each pole-to-pole move of a ring.
79If nil, move rings as fast as possible while displaying all
80intermediate positions."
81  :group 'hanoi :type '(restricted-sexp :match-alternatives (numberp 'nil)))
82
83(defcustom hanoi-use-faces nil
84  "*If nil, all hanoi-*-face variables are ignored."
85  :group 'hanoi :type 'boolean)
86
87(defcustom hanoi-pole-face 'highlight
88  "*Face for poles.  Ignored if hanoi-use-faces is nil."
89  :group 'hanoi :type 'face)
90
91(defcustom hanoi-base-face 'highlight
92  "*Face for base.  Ignored if hanoi-use-faces is nil."
93  :group 'hanoi :type 'face)
94
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)
98
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)
102
103
104;;;
105;;; hanoi - user callable Towers of Hanoi
106;;;
107;;;###autoload
108(defun hanoi (nrings)
109  "Towers of Hanoi diversion.  Use NRINGS rings."
110  (interactive
111   (list (if (null current-prefix-arg)
112	     3
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) (hanoi-current-time-float)))
117
118;;;###autoload
119(defun hanoi-unix ()
120  "Towers of Hanoi, UNIX doomsday version.
121Displays 32-ring towers that have been progressing at one move per
122second since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT.
123
124Repent before ring 31 moves."
125  (interactive)
126  (let* ((start (ftruncate (hanoi-current-time-float)))
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)))
132
133;;;###autoload
134(defun hanoi-unix-64 ()
135  "Like hanoi-unix, but pretend to have a 64-bit clock.
136This is, necessarily (as of Emacs 20.3), a crock.  When the
137current-time interface is made s2G-compliant, hanoi.el will need
138to be updated."
139  (interactive)
140  (let* ((start (ftruncate (hanoi-current-time-float)))
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)))
146
147(defun hanoi-internal (nrings bits start-time)
148  "Towers of Hanoi internal interface.  Use NRINGS rings.
149Start after n steps, where BITS is a big-endian list of the bits of n.
150BITS must be of length nrings.  Start at START-TIME."
151  (switch-to-buffer "*Hanoi*")
152  (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
153  (unwind-protect
154      (let*
155	  (;; These lines can cause Emacs to crash if you ask for too
156	   ;; many rings.  If you uncomment them, on most systems you
157	   ;; can get 10,000+ rings.
158	   ;;(max-specpdl-size (max max-specpdl-size (* nrings 15)))
159	   ;;(max-lisp-eval-depth (max max-lisp-eval-depth (+ nrings 20)))
160	   (vert (not hanoi-horizontal-flag))
161	   (pole-width (length (format "%d" (max 0 (1- nrings)))))
162	   (pole-char (if vert ?\| ?\-))
163	   (base-char (if vert ?\= ?\|))
164	   (base-len (max (+ 8 (* pole-width 3))
165			  (1- (if vert (window-width) (window-height)))))
166	   (max-ring-diameter (/ (- base-len 2) 3))
167	   (pole1-coord (/ max-ring-diameter 2))
168	   (pole2-coord (/ base-len 2))
169	   (pole3-coord (- base-len (/ (1+ max-ring-diameter) 2)))
170	   (pole-coords (list pole1-coord pole2-coord pole3-coord))
171	   ;; Number of lines displayed below the bottom-most rings.
172	   (base-lines
173	    (min 3 (max 0 (- (1- (if vert (window-height) (window-width)))
174			     (+ 2 nrings)))))
175
176	   ;; These variables will be set according to hanoi-horizontal-flag:
177
178	   ;; line-offset is the number of characters per line in the buffer.
179	   line-offset
180	   ;; fly-row-start is the buffer position of the leftmost or
181	   ;; uppermost position in the fly row.
182	   fly-row-start
183	   ;; Adding fly-step to a buffer position moves you one step
184	   ;; along the fly row in the direction from pole1 to pole2.
185	   fly-step
186	   ;; Adding baseward-step to a buffer position moves you one step
187	   ;; toward the base.
188	   baseward-step
189	   )
190	(setq buffer-read-only nil)
191	(erase-buffer)
192	(setq truncate-lines t)
193	(if hanoi-horizontal-flag
194	    (progn
195	      (setq line-offset (+ base-lines nrings 3))
196	      (setq fly-row-start (1- line-offset))
197	      (setq fly-step line-offset)
198	      (setq baseward-step -1)
199	      (loop repeat base-len do
200		    (unless (zerop base-lines)
201		      (insert-char ?\  (1- base-lines))
202		      (insert base-char)
203		      (hanoi-put-face (1- (point)) (point) hanoi-base-face))
204		    (insert-char ?\  (+ 2 nrings))
205		    (insert ?\n))
206	      (delete-char -1)
207	      (loop for coord in pole-coords do
208		    (loop for row from (- coord (/ pole-width 2))
209			  for start = (+ (* row line-offset) base-lines 1)
210			  repeat pole-width do
211			  (subst-char-in-region start (+ start nrings 1)
212						?\  pole-char)
213			  (hanoi-put-face start (+ start nrings 1)
214					  hanoi-pole-face))))
215	  ;; vertical
216	  (setq line-offset (1+ base-len))
217	  (setq fly-step 1)
218	  (setq baseward-step line-offset)
219	  (let ((extra-lines (- (1- (window-height)) (+ nrings 2) base-lines)))
220	    (insert-char ?\n (max 0 extra-lines))
221	    (setq fly-row-start (point))
222	    (insert-char ?\  base-len)
223	    (insert ?\n)
224	    (loop repeat (1+ nrings)
225		  with pole-line =
226		  (loop with line = (make-string base-len ?\ )
227			for coord in pole-coords
228			for start = (- coord (/ pole-width 2))
229			for end = (+ start pole-width) do
230			(hanoi-put-face start end hanoi-pole-face line)
231			(loop for i from start below end do
232			      (aset line i pole-char))
233			finally return line)
234		  do (insert pole-line ?\n))
235	    (insert-char base-char base-len)
236	    (hanoi-put-face (- (point) base-len) (point) hanoi-base-face)
237	    (set-window-start (selected-window)
238			      (1+ (* baseward-step
239				     (max 0 (- extra-lines)))))))
240
241	(let
242	    (;; each pole is a pair of buffer positions:
243	     ;; the car is the position of the top ring currently on the pole,
244	     ;;   (or the base of the pole if it is empty).
245	     ;; the cdr is in the fly-row just above the pole.
246	     (poles (loop for coord in pole-coords
247			  for fly-pos = (+ fly-row-start (* fly-step coord))
248			  for base = (+ fly-pos (* baseward-step (+ 2 nrings)))
249			  collect (cons base fly-pos)))
250	     ;; compute the string for each ring and make the list of
251	     ;; ring pairs.  Each ring pair is initially (str . diameter).
252	     ;; Once placed in buffer it is changed to (center-pos . diameter).
253	     (rings
254	      (loop
255		;; radii are measured from the edge of the pole out.
256		;; So diameter = 2 * radius + pole-width.  When
257		;; there's room, we make each ring's radius =
258		;; pole-number + 1.  If there isn't room, we step
259		;; evenly from the max radius down to 1.
260		with max-radius = (min nrings
261				       (/ (- max-ring-diameter pole-width) 2))
262		for n from (1- nrings) downto 0
263		for radius =  (1+ (/ (* n max-radius) nrings))
264		for diameter = (+ pole-width (* 2 radius))
265		with format-str = (format "%%0%dd" pole-width)
266		for str = (concat (if vert "<" "^")
267				  (make-string (1- radius) (if vert ?\- ?\|))
268				  (format format-str n)
269				  (make-string (1- radius) (if vert ?\- ?\|))
270				  (if vert ">" "v"))
271		for face =
272		  (if (eq (logand n 1) 1) ; oddp would require cl at runtime
273		      hanoi-odd-ring-face hanoi-even-ring-face)
274		do (hanoi-put-face 0 (length str) face str)
275		collect (cons str diameter)))
276	     ;; Disable display of line and column numbers, for speed.
277	     (line-number-mode nil) (column-number-mode nil))
278	  ;; do it!
279	  (hanoi-n bits rings (car poles) (cadr poles) (caddr poles)
280		   start-time))
281	(message "Done"))
282    (setq buffer-read-only t)
283    (force-mode-line-update)))
284
285(defun hanoi-current-time-float ()
286  "Return values from current-time combined into a single float."
287  (destructuring-bind (high low micros) (current-time)
288    (+ (* high 65536.0) low (/ micros 1000000.0))))
289
290(defun hanoi-put-face (start end value &optional object)
291  "If hanoi-use-faces is non-nil, call put-text-property for face property."
292  (if hanoi-use-faces
293      (put-text-property start end 'face value object)))
294
295
296;;; Functions with a start-time argument (hanoi-0, hanoi-n, and
297;;; hanoi-move-ring) start working at start-time and return the ending
298;;; time.  If hanoi-move-period is nil, start-time is ignored and the
299;;; return value is junk.
300
301;;;
302;;; hanoi-0 - work horse of hanoi
303(defun hanoi-0 (rings from to work start-time)
304  (if (null rings)
305      start-time
306    (hanoi-0 (cdr rings) work to from
307	     (hanoi-move-ring (car rings) from to
308			      (hanoi-0 (cdr rings) from work to start-time)))))
309
310;; start after n moves, where BITS is a big-endian list of the bits of n.
311;; BITS must be of same length as rings.
312(defun hanoi-n (bits rings from to work start-time)
313  (cond ((null rings)
314	 ;; All rings have been placed in starting positions.  Update display.
315	 (hanoi-sit-for 0)
316	 start-time)
317	((zerop (car bits))
318	 (hanoi-insert-ring (car rings) from)
319	 (hanoi-0 (cdr rings) work to from
320		  (hanoi-move-ring (car rings) from to
321				   (hanoi-n (cdr bits) (cdr rings) from work to
322					    start-time))))
323	(t
324	 (hanoi-insert-ring (car rings) to)
325	 (hanoi-n (cdr bits) (cdr rings) work to from start-time))))
326
327;; put never-before-placed RING on POLE and update their cars.
328(defun hanoi-insert-ring (ring pole)
329  (decf (car pole) baseward-step)
330  (let ((str (car ring))
331	(start (- (car pole) (* (/ (cdr ring) 2) fly-step))))
332    (setcar ring (car pole))
333    (loop for pos upfrom start by fly-step
334	      for i below (cdr ring) do
335	      (subst-char-in-region pos (1+ pos) (char-after pos) (aref str i))
336	      (set-text-properties pos (1+ pos) (text-properties-at i str)))
337    (hanoi-goto-char (car pole))))
338
339;; like goto-char, but if position is outside the window, then move to
340;; corresponding position in the first row displayed.
341(defun hanoi-goto-char (pos)
342  (goto-char (if (or hanoi-horizontal-flag (<= (window-start) pos))
343		 pos
344	       (+ (window-start) (% (- pos fly-row-start) baseward-step)))))
345
346;; do one pole-to-pole move and update the ring and pole pairs.
347(defun hanoi-move-ring (ring from to start-time)
348  (incf (car from) baseward-step)
349  (decf (car to) baseward-step)
350  (let* ;; We move flywards-steps steps up the pole to the fly row,
351	;; then fly fly-steps steps across the fly row, then go
352	;; baseward-steps steps down the new pole.
353	((flyward-steps (/ (- (car ring) (cdr from)) baseward-step))
354	 (fly-steps (abs (/ (- (cdr to) (cdr from)) fly-step)))
355	 (directed-fly-step (/ (- (cdr to) (cdr from)) fly-steps))
356	 (baseward-steps (/ (- (car to) (cdr to)) baseward-step))
357	 (total-steps (+ flyward-steps fly-steps baseward-steps))
358	 ;; A step is a character cell.  A tick is a time-unit.  To
359	 ;; make horizontal and vertical motion appear roughly the
360	 ;; same speed, we allow one tick per horizontal step and two
361	 ;; ticks per vertical step.
362	 (ticks-per-pole-step (if hanoi-horizontal-flag 1 2))
363	 (ticks-per-fly-step (if hanoi-horizontal-flag 2 1))
364	 (flyward-ticks (* ticks-per-pole-step flyward-steps))
365	 (fly-ticks (* ticks-per-fly-step fly-steps))
366	 (baseward-ticks (* ticks-per-pole-step baseward-steps))
367	 (total-ticks (+ flyward-ticks fly-ticks baseward-ticks))
368	 (tick-to-pos
369	  ;; Return the buffer position of the ring after TICK ticks.
370	  (lambda (tick)
371	    (cond
372	     ((<= tick flyward-ticks)
373	      (+ (cdr from)
374		 (* baseward-step
375		    (- flyward-steps (/ tick ticks-per-pole-step)))))
376	     ((<= tick (+ flyward-ticks fly-ticks))
377	      (+ (cdr from)
378		 (* directed-fly-step
379		    (/ (- tick flyward-ticks) ticks-per-fly-step))))
380	     (t
381	      (+ (cdr to)
382		 (* baseward-step
383		    (/ (- tick flyward-ticks fly-ticks)
384		       ticks-per-pole-step))))))))
385    (if hanoi-move-period
386	(loop for elapsed = (- (hanoi-current-time-float) start-time)
387	      while (< elapsed hanoi-move-period)
388	      with tick-period = (/ (float hanoi-move-period) total-ticks)
389	      for tick = (ceiling (/ elapsed tick-period)) do
390	      (hanoi-ring-to-pos ring (funcall tick-to-pos tick))
391	      (hanoi-sit-for (- (* tick tick-period) elapsed)))
392      (loop for tick from 1 to total-ticks by 2 do
393	    (hanoi-ring-to-pos ring (funcall tick-to-pos tick))
394	    (hanoi-sit-for 0)))
395    ;; Always make last move to keep pole and ring data consistent
396    (hanoi-ring-to-pos ring (car to))
397    (if hanoi-move-period (+ start-time hanoi-move-period))))
398
399;; update display and pause, quitting with a pithy comment if the user
400;; hits a key.
401(defun hanoi-sit-for (seconds)
402  (unless (sit-for seconds)
403    (signal 'quit '("I can tell you've had enough"))))
404
405;; move ring to a given buffer position and update ring's car.
406(defun hanoi-ring-to-pos (ring pos)
407  (unless (= (car ring) pos)
408    (let* ((start (- (car ring) (* (/ (cdr ring) 2) fly-step)))
409	   (new-start (- pos (- (car ring) start))))
410      (if hanoi-horizontal-flag
411	  (loop for i below (cdr ring)
412		for j = (if (< new-start start) i (- (cdr ring) i 1))
413		for old-pos = (+ start (* j fly-step))
414		for new-pos = (+ new-start (* j fly-step)) do
415		(transpose-regions old-pos (1+ old-pos) new-pos (1+ new-pos)))
416	(let ((end (+ start (cdr ring)))
417	      (new-end (+ new-start (cdr ring))))
418	  (if (< (abs (- new-start start)) (- end start))
419	      ;; Overlap.  Adjust bounds
420	      (if (< start new-start)
421		  (setq new-start end)
422		(setq new-end start)))
423	  (transpose-regions start end new-start new-end t))))
424    ;; If moved on or off a pole, redraw pole chars.
425    (unless (eq (hanoi-pos-on-tower-p (car ring)) (hanoi-pos-on-tower-p pos))
426      (let* ((pole-start (- (car ring) (* fly-step (/ pole-width 2))))
427	     (pole-end (+ pole-start (* fly-step pole-width)))
428	     (on-pole (hanoi-pos-on-tower-p (car ring)))
429	     (new-char (if on-pole pole-char ?\ ))
430	     (curr-char (if on-pole ?\  pole-char))
431	     (face (if on-pole hanoi-pole-face nil)))
432	(if hanoi-horizontal-flag
433	    (loop for pos from pole-start below pole-end by line-offset do
434		  (subst-char-in-region pos (1+ pos) curr-char new-char)
435		  (hanoi-put-face pos (1+ pos) face))
436	  (subst-char-in-region pole-start pole-end curr-char new-char)
437	  (hanoi-put-face pole-start pole-end face))))
438    (setcar ring pos))
439  (hanoi-goto-char pos))
440
441;; Check if a buffer position lies on a tower (vis. in the fly row).
442(defun hanoi-pos-on-tower-p (pos)
443  (if hanoi-horizontal-flag
444      (/= (% pos fly-step) fly-row-start)
445    (>= pos (+ fly-row-start baseward-step))))
446
447(provide 'hanoi)
448
449;;; arch-tag: 7a901659-4346-495c-8883-14cbf540610c
450;;; hanoi.el ends here
451