-- any version from LuaJIT 2.0/5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3 to LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3-readline local bit=bit32 or bit -- Lua 5.2/5.3 compatibilty -- Hilbert curve implemented by Lindenmayer system function string.hilbert(s, n) for i=1,n do s=s:gsub("[AB]",function(c) if c=="A" then c="-BF+AFA+FB-" else c="+AF-BFB-FA+" end return c end) end s=s:gsub("[AB]",""):gsub("%+%-",""):gsub("%-%+","") return s end -- Or the characters for ASCII line drawing function charor(c1, c2) local bits={ [" "]=0x0, ["╷"]=0x1, ["╶"]=0x2, ["┌"]=0x3, ["╵"]=0x4, ["│"]=0x5, ["└"]=0x6, ["├"]=0x7, ["╴"]=0x8, ["┐"]=0x9, ["─"]=0xa, ["┬"]=0xb, ["┘"]=0xc, ["┤"]=0xd, ["┴"]=0xe, ["┼"]=0xf,} local char={" ", "╷", "╶", "┌", "╵", "│", "└", "├", "╴", "┐", "─", "┬", "┘", "┤", "┴", "┼",} local b1,b2=bits[c1] or 0,bits[c2] or 0 return char[bit.bor(b1,b2)+1] end -- ASCII line drawing routine function draw(s) local char={ {"─","┘","╴","┐",}, -- r {"│","┐","╷","┌",}, -- up {"─","┌","╶","└",}, -- l {"│","└","╵","┘",}, -- down } local scr={} local move={{x=1,y=0},{x=0,y=1},{x=-1,y=0},{x=0,y=-1}} local x,y=1,1 local minx,maxx,miny,maxy=1,1,1,1 local dir,turn=0,0 s=s.."F" local rep=0 for c in s:gmatch(".") do if c=="F" then repeat if scr[y]==nil then scr[y]={} end scr[y][x]=charor(char[dir+1][turn%#char[1]+1],scr[y][x] or " ") dir = (dir+turn) % #move x, y = x+move[dir+1].x,y+move[dir+1].y maxx,maxy=math.max(maxx,x),math.max(maxy,y) minx,miny=math.min(minx,x),math.min(miny,y) turn=0 rep=rep>1 and rep-1 or 0 until rep==0 elseif c=="-" then repeat turn=turn+1 rep=rep>1 and rep-1 or 0 until rep==0 elseif c=="+" then repeat turn=turn-1 rep=rep>1 and rep-1 or 0 until rep==0 elseif c:match("%d") then -- allow repeated commands rep=rep*10+tonumber(c) else repeat x, y = x+move[dir+1].x,y+move[dir+1].y maxx,maxy=math.max(maxx,x),math.max(maxy,y) minx,miny=math.min(minx,x),math.min(miny,y) rep=rep>1 and rep-1 or 0 until rep==0 end end for i=maxy,miny,-1 do local oneline={} for x=minx,maxx do oneline[1+x-minx]=scr[i] and scr[i][x] or " " end local line=table.concat(oneline) io.write(line, "\n") end end -- MAIN -- local n=arg[1] and tonumber(arg[1]) or 3 local str=arg[2] or "A" draw(str:hilbert(n))