Hi,
I would like to populate an 2 dimensional array, from a vector.
I think the best way to explain myself is to put some examples (with a array of [3,5] length).
When vector is: [1, 0]
[
[4, 3, 2, 1, 0],
[4, 3, 2, 1, 0],
[4, 3, 2, 1, 0]
]
When vector is: [-1, 0]
[
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
]
When vector is: [-2, 0]
[
[0, 0, 1, 1, 2],
[0, 0, 1, 1, 2],
[0, 0, 1, 1, 2]
]
When vector is: [1, 1]
[
[2, 2, 2, 1, 0],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
]
When vector is: [0, 1]
[
[2, 2, 2, 2, 2],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
]
Have you got any ideas, a good library or a plan?
Any comments are welcome. Thanks.
Note: I consulted Ruby "Matrix" and "Vector" classes, but I don't see any way to use it in my way...
Edit: In fact, each value is the number of cells (from the current cell to the last cell) according to the given vector.
If we take the example where the vector is [-2, 0], with the value *1* (at array[2, 3]):
array = [
[<0>, <0>, <1>, <1>, <2>],
[<0>, <0>, <1>, <1>, <2>],
[<0>, <0>, <1>, *1*, <2>]
]
... we could think such as:
The vector [-2, 0] means that -2 is
for cols and 0 is for rows. So if we
are in array[2, 3], we can move 1 time
on the left (left because 2 is
negative) with 2 length (because
-2.abs == 2). And we don't move on the top or bottom, because of 0 for
rows.
