How to visit all points in a 2D grid?

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I am trying to have 2 points visit all points in a 3 x 3 grid. The method of visiting the points is:

I have points P1 and P2, starting from (0, 0).
P1 moves from (0, 0) to (0, 1), (1, 0) until (3, 3).
When P1 reached the end of grid ((3, 3)), P2 should update from (0, 0) to (0, 1), then
P1 starts from position of P2 until end of grid.
This goes on until P2 reaches (3, 3).

So an exhaustive/brute-force search with a combination of 2 points. I tried:

def traversal_methods(num_particles, grid_size):
    particles = [(0, 0) for _ in range(num_particles)]

    while(particles[1] != (grid_size - 1 , grid_size - 1 )):

        for k in range(0, grid_size):
            for l in range(0, grid_size):
                particles[1] = (k, l)
                particles[0] = (0, 0)

                while(particles[0] != (grid_size-1, grid_size-1)):
                    for i in range(k, grid_size):
                        for j in range(0, grid_size):
                            particles[0] = (i, j)

I am not getting intended result. I also want to extend this to n-points. Can anyone suggest some method to do this?

Asked By: Ken Adams

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Answer 1

I also want to extend this to n-points. Can anyone suggest some method to do this?

Using list comprehension and nested loops:

def grid_create(size_x, size_y):
    return [[(x, y) for x in range(size_x)] for y in range(size_y)]


grid = grid_create(3, 3)

Result (tuples as (x, y) in list of lists as [y][x]):

[(0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 0)],
[(0, 1), (1, 1), (2, 1)],
[(0, 2), (1, 2), (2, 2)]

Traversal (P2 from P1):

def grid_traverse(grid):
    c1, c2 = 0, 0

    for y1 in range(len(grid)):
        for x1 in range(len(grid[y1])):
            c1 += 1
            c2  = 0
            print(f'P1 {grid[y1][x1]}')

            for y2 in range(len(grid)):
                for x2 in range(len(grid[y2])):
                    c2 += 1
                    if (c2 < c1): continue
                    print(f'tP2 {grid[y2][x2]}')


grid = grid_create(3, 3)
grid_traverse(grid)

Result as (x, y):

P1 (0, 0)
    P2 (0, 0)
    P2 (1, 0)
    P2 (2, 0)
    P2 (0, 1)
    P2 (1, 1)
    P2 (2, 1)
    P2 (0, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (1, 0)
    P2 (1, 0)
    P2 (2, 0)
    P2 (0, 1)
    P2 (1, 1)
    P2 (2, 1)
    P2 (0, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (2, 0)
    P2 (2, 0)
    P2 (0, 1)
    P2 (1, 1)
    P2 (2, 1)
    P2 (0, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (0, 1)
    P2 (0, 1)
    P2 (1, 1)
    P2 (2, 1)
    P2 (0, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (1, 1)
    P2 (1, 1)
    P2 (2, 1)
    P2 (0, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (2, 1)
    P2 (2, 1)
    P2 (0, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (0, 2)
    P2 (0, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (1, 2)
    P2 (1, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)
P1 (2, 2)
    P2 (2, 2)

Result illustrated:

Example without grid:

def grid_traverse(size_x, size_y):
    c1, c2 = 0, 0

    for y1 in range(size_y):
        for x1 in range(size_x):
            c1 += 1
            c2  = 0
            print(f'P1 ({x1}, {y1})')

            for y2 in range(size_y):
                for x2 in range(size_x):
                    c2 += 1
                    if (c2 < c1): continue
                    print(f'tP2 ({x2}, {y2})')


grid_traverse(3, 3)

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