Map string to Hilbert curve

Question

Let's map some strings to 2d space, fractal style. Your task is to compute a Hilbert curve and lay a string along it.

Task

The task is to take the single-line input string, and lay it out along a Hilbert curve big enough to contain it, but no bigger. Try to make the byte count as low as possible; this is code-golf after all!

Conditions

• Any gaps to be padded with whitespace, but padding is not required at the end of lines.
• The start of the line should be in the top-left corner, and the end in the bottom-left.
• You may create a program or function.
• There may be some new test-cases appearing, so don't hardcode anything!

Bonuses

Note: Bonuses stack like this: -50% & -20% on 100B = -20% on 50B or -50% on 80B = 40B.

• -50% If the input is a multi-line string, reverse the process to create the original input. Test cases for the bonus: just use the existing ones (including the bonus test cases!)
• -20% If you strip all unnecessary whitespace from the output (e.g. at the end of a line).
• -5% If you don't pollute the global namespace (you know what I mean!)

Test cases

abcdefghijklmn

adef
bchg
 nij
 mlk


The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Thn f ju
 ewooxpm
qckr rs 
ui btevo
    hlaz
    e  y
      do
      .g

And for the whitespace-stripping bonus:

No  hitespac  her 

Noher

hesc
itpa

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# [><>](http://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish), 121 bytes

Answer 1

CJam, 119 117 113 112 109 * 0.5 * 0.8 = 43.6 bytes

Thanks to Dennis for saving 1 byte.

Here is a start...

{+e`W<e~}:F;q_N-,4mLm]0aa{4\#4e!1=f*\:G[zGGW%zW%G].ff+2/{~.+~}%}@:L/\_N&{N/]z:z:~$1f>sS}{4L#' e]f{f=SF}N*N}?F

Test the forward transform. Test the inverse transform.

I'm sure there's a shorter way to generate the curve...

Explanation

First, I define a function to trim some element from the end of an array, because I need that in several places. It expects the array and the element (inside a separate array) on top of the stack.

{
  +  e# Append the element to the array.
  e` e# Run-length encode.
  W< e# Discard last run.
  e~ e# Run-length decode.
}:F; e# Store in F and discard.

Now the majority of the code determines the size of the required Hilbert curve and constructs it as 2D array where the elements are indices along the curve. I construct this based on the following observation:

Consider the 2x2 Hilbert curve:

01
32

The 4x4 Hilbert curve is:

0345
1276
ed89
fcba

If we subtract the minimum value from each quadrant (and separate them a bit for visual clarity), we get:

03 01
12 32

21 01
30 32

This pattern holds for any size. It means that we can construct the next level from the current one, by using as the four quadrants: a) the transpose of the current level, b) the current level itself, c) the transpose along the anti-diagonal, d) again the current level itself. And then we offset them 0, 1, 3, 2 times the size of the current level, respectively.

q           e# Read input.
_N-         e# Make a copy and remove all linefeeds.
,4mLm]      e# Take that string's length's logarithm with base 4, rounded up.
            e# This is the Hilbert curve level we need.
0aa         e# Push [[0]] as the level-0 Hilbert curve.
{           e# Store the Hilbert curve level in L. Then for each i from 0 to L-1...
  4\#       e#   Compute 4^i. This is the offset of the four quadrants.
  4e!1=     e#   Get [0 1 3 2] as the second permutation returned by 4e!.
  f*        e#   Multiply each of them by the offset.
  \:G       e#   Swap with the Hilbert curve so far and call it G.
  [         e#   Create an array with...
    z       e#     The transpose of G.
    G       e#     G itself.
    GW%zW%  e#     The anti-diagonal transpose of G.
    G       e#     G itself.
  ]
  .ff+      e#   Add the appropriate offsets to the indices in each of the four quadrants.
  2/        e# Split into a 2x2 grid.
  {         e# Map this onto each pair of quadrants...
    ~       e#   Dump both quadrants on the stack.
    .+      e#   Concatenate them line by line.
    ~       e#   Dump the lines on the stack.
  }%        e# Since this is a map, the lines will automatically be collected in an array.
}@:L/

Finally, we use this Hilbert curve of indices to apply the appropriate transformation to the input:

\_        e# Swap the curve with the input and make another copy.
N&{       e# If the input contains linefeeds, execute the first block, else the second...
  N/      e#   Split the input into lines. The stack now has a grid of indices and a grid
          e#   of characters.
  ]z:z:~  e#   This is some weird transposition magic which zips up the indices with the
          e#   corresponding characters from both grids, and finally flattens the grid
          e#   into a linear list of index/character pairs. Those cells that don't have
          e#   characters due to trimmed whitespace in the input will be turned into
          e#   arrays containing only an index.
  $       e#   Sort the pairs (which sorts them by indices).
  1f>     e#   Discard the indices.
  s       e#   Flatten the result into a single string.
  S       e#   Leave a space on the stack to be trim trailing spaces later.
}{        e# or...
  4L#     e#   Compute the size of the Hilbert curve.
  ' e]    e#   Pad the input to that size with spaces.
  f{      e#   Map this block over lines of the curve, passing the padding input as an
          e#   additional parameter...
    f=    e#     For each index in the current line, select the appropriate character
          e#     from the padded input.
    SF    e#     Trim spaces from the end of the line.
  }
  N*      e#   Join the lines with linefeed characters.
  N       e#   Leave a linefeed on the stack to be trim trailing linefeeds later.
}?
F         e# We left either a space or a linefeed on stack... trim that character from
          e# the end of the string.

Answer 2

Python 3, 467 434 423 457 451 426 386 374 342 291 304 * 80% * 95% = 231.04 bytes

The way this works is that I make the Hilbert curve using a Lindenmayer system and follow the left, right and forward instructions along an array of strings. There are probably many ways this could be golfed better, though; especially in the conditionals and in making the array of strings. (I did attempt [" "*p for i in range(p)] but strings don't support item assignment (apparently). If I could get that to work, I could get rid of join, too)

Edit: Golfed some of the conditionals with thanks to Dennis. And I golfed down the array of strings. And a no-byte change because the results were coming out transposed compared to the examples above.

Edit: Implemented the whitespace-stripping bonus.

Edit: Fixed a bug in my whitespace-stripping code for six more bytes

Edit: Since this answer doesn't pollute the global namespace, I get the 5% bonus, according to wizzwizz4 here.

Edit: Changed how g is incremented and decremented. Now using eval() and str.translate.

Edit: This answer is now a program instead of a function.

Edit: Fixed some bugs from the previous golf.

s=input();m=(len(bin(len(s)-1))-1)//2;t=eval("[' ']*2**m,"*2**m);t[0][0],*s=s;x=y=g=0;b="A";exec("b=b.translate({65:'-BF+AFA+FB-',66:'+AF-BFB-FA+'});"*m)
while s:
 c,*b=b;g+=(c<"-")-(c=="-")
 if"B"<c:x,y=[[x+1-g%4,y],[x,y+g%4-2]][g%2];t[x][y],*s=s
print("\n".join(''.join(i).rstrip()for i in t).rstrip())

Ungolfed:

# hilbert(it) is now implemented in the code with exec("b=b.translate")

def hilbert(it):
    s="A"
    n=""
    for i in range(it):
        for c in s:
            if c == "A":
                n += "-BF+AFA+FB-"
            elif c == "B":
                n += "+AF-BFB-FA+"
            else:
                n += c
        s=n;n=""
    return s

def string_to_hilbert(string):
    length = len(string)
    it = (len(bin(length-1))-1)//2
    hil = hilbert(it)
    pow_2 = 2**it
    # we use eval("[' ']*pow_2,"*pow_2) in the code, but the following is equivalent
    output = [[" "for j in range(pow_2)] for i in range(pow_2)]
    output[0][0] = string[0]
    x = 0
    y = 0
    heading = 0
    while string: # while there are still characters in string
        char, *hil = hil
        if char == "-": heading = heading - 1
        elif char == "+": heading = heading + 1
        elif char == "F":
            if heading % 4 == 3: y += 1
            elif heading % 4 == 2: x -= 1
            elif heading % 4 == 1: y -= 1
            else: x += 1
            output[x][y], *string = string
    array = [''.join(i).rstrip()for i in output]
    array = "\n".join(array).rstrip()
    print(array)
    return

Answer 3

Ruby, 358 356 344 322 319 * 80% * 95% = 242.44 bytes

This is my Python code transpiled to Ruby. I should write more answers in Ruby. It's a decent language to golf in.

Edit: I forgot that functions don't need to be named in this question.

Edit: Since this answer doesn't pollute the global namespace, I get the 5% bonus, according to wizzwizz4 here.

->s{l=s.size;m=((l-1).bit_length+1)/2;x=2**m;t=(1..x).map{[" "]*x};t[0][0]=s[0];x=y=g=z=0;d=1;b=?A;m.times{b=b.split("").map{|c|c==?A?"-BF+AFA+FB-":c==?B?"+AF-BFB-FA+":c}.join("")};(c=b[z];z+=1;g+=c<?-?1:c==?-?-1:0;(g%2>0?y+=g%4-2:x+=1-g%4;t[x][y]=s[d];d+=1)if c>?B)while d<l;puts (t.map{|i|(i*'').rstrip}*"\n").rstrip}

Ungolfed:

def map_string(string)
  len = string.size
  m = ((len-1).bit_length+1)/2
  pow = 2**m
  output = (1..pow).map{[" "]*pow}
  output[0][0] = s[0]
  x = y = heading = char_index = 0
  chars_in_output = 1
  b = ?A
  m.times do |j|
    a = b.split("").map do |char|
      if char == "A"
        "-BF+AFA+FB-"
      else if char == "B"
        "+AF-BFB-FA+"
      else
        char
      end
    end
    b = a.join("")
  end
  while chars_in_output < len
    char = b[char_index]
    char_index += 1
    if char == "-"
      heading += -1
    else if char == "+"
      heading += 1
    else if char == "F"
      if heading % 2 == 0
        y += heading % 4 - 2
      else
        x += 1 - heading % 4
      end
    end
    output[x][y] = string[char_index]
    char_index += 1
  end
  return (output.map{|i|(i*'').rstrip}*"\n").rstrip

Answer 4

JavaScript (ES6), 227 - 20% : 181.6 bytes

m=>{for(n=1<<((33-Math.clz32(m.length-1))/2),t='',y=0;y<n;y++,t+=`
`)for(x=0;x<n;x++,t+=m[h]||' ')for(u=y,v=x,h=0,s=n;s>>=1;q||(p&&(u=s+~u,v=s+~v),[u,v]=[v,u]))h+=s*s*(3*!!(p=u&s)^!!(q=v&s));return t.replace(/ +$/mg,'').trim()}

Trying to get the 5% bonus

m=>{for(var n=1<<((33-Math.clz32(m.length-1))/2),t='',x,y=0;y<n;y++,t+=`
`)for(x=0;x<n;x++,t+=m[h]||' ')for(var p,q,u=y,v=x,h=0,s=n;s>>=1;q||(p&&(u=s+~u,v=s+~v),[u,v]=[v,u]))h+=s*s*(3*!!(p=u&s)^!!(q=v&s));return t.replace(/ +$/mg,'').trim()}

241 * 0.8 *0.95 : 183.16 bigger

Less golfed

m=>
{
  // calc the size of the bounding square, clz32 is a bit shorter than ceil(log2()
  n = 1<<( (33-Math.clz32(m.length-1)) / 2); 
  t = '';
  for(y = 0; y < n; y++) 
  {
    for(x = 0 ; x < n; x++)
    {
      // for each position x,y inside the square
      // get the index postion in the hilbert curve
      // see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve (convert x,y to d)
      for(u=y, v=x, h=0, s=n; s >>= 1; )
      {
        h += s*s*(3 * !!(p = u & s) ^ !!(q = v & s));
        q || (p && (u = s+~u, v = s+~v),[u,v]=[v,u])
      }
      // add char at given index to output  
      t += m[h]||' '; // blank if beyond the length of m
    }
    t += '\n'; // add newline add end line
  }
  return t.replace(/ +$/mg,'').trim() // to get the 20% bonus
}  

Test

F=m=>{for(n=1<<((33-Math.clz32(m.length-1))/2),t='',y=0;y<n;y++,t+=`
`)for(x=0;x<n;x++,t+=m[h]||' ')for(u=y,v=x,h=0,s=n;s>>=1;q||(p&&(u=s+~u,v=s+~v),[u,v]=[v,u]))h+=s*s*(3*!!(p=u&s)^!!(q=v&s));return t.replace(/ +$/mg,'').trim()}

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