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| 1 | +# Day 13: Point of Incidence --- |
| 2 | +With your help, the hot springs team locates an appropriate spring which launches you neatly and precisely up to the |
| 3 | +edge of **Lava Island**. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +There's just one problem: you don't see any **lava**. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +You **do** see a lot of ash and igneous rock; there are even what look like gray mountains scattered around. After a |
| 8 | +while, you make your way to a nearby cluster of mountains only to discover that the valley between them is completely |
| 9 | +full of large **mirrors**. Most of the mirrors seem to be aligned in a consistent way; perhaps you should head in that |
| 10 | +direction? |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +As you move through the valley of mirrors, you find that several of them have fallen from the large metal frames |
| 13 | +keeping them in place. The mirrors are extremely flat and shiny, and many of the fallen mirrors have lodged into the |
| 14 | +ash at strange angles. Because the terrain is all one color, it's hard to tell where it's safe to walk or where you're |
| 15 | +about to run into a mirror. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +You note down the patterns of ash (`.`) and rocks (`#`) that you see as you walk (your puzzle input); perhaps by |
| 18 | +carefully analyzing these patterns, you can figure out where the mirrors are! |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +For example: |
| 21 | +``` |
| 22 | +#.##..##. |
| 23 | +..#.##.#. |
| 24 | +##......# |
| 25 | +##......# |
| 26 | +..#.##.#. |
| 27 | +..##..##. |
| 28 | +#.#.##.#. |
| 29 | +
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| 30 | +#...##..# |
| 31 | +#....#..# |
| 32 | +..##..### |
| 33 | +#####.##. |
| 34 | +#####.##. |
| 35 | +..##..### |
| 36 | +#....#..# |
| 37 | +``` |
| 38 | +To find the reflection in each pattern, you need to find a perfect reflection across either a horizontal line between |
| 39 | +two rows or across a vertical line between two columns. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +In the first pattern, the reflection is across a vertical line between two columns; arrows on each of the two columns |
| 42 | +point at the line between the columns: |
| 43 | +``` |
| 44 | +123456789 |
| 45 | + >< |
| 46 | +#.##..##. |
| 47 | +..#.##.#. |
| 48 | +##......# |
| 49 | +##......# |
| 50 | +..#.##.#. |
| 51 | +..##..##. |
| 52 | +#.#.##.#. |
| 53 | + >< |
| 54 | +123456789 |
| 55 | +``` |
| 56 | +In this pattern, the line of reflection is the vertical line between columns 5 and 6. Because the vertical line is not |
| 57 | +perfectly in the middle of the pattern, part of the pattern (column 1) has nowhere to reflect onto and can be ignored; |
| 58 | +every other column has a reflected column within the pattern and must match exactly: column 2 matches column 9, column |
| 59 | +3 matches 8, 4 matches 7, and 5 matches 6. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +The second pattern reflects across a horizontal line instead: |
| 62 | +``` |
| 63 | +1 #...##..# 1 |
| 64 | +2 #....#..# 2 |
| 65 | +3 ..##..### 3 |
| 66 | +4v#####.##.v4 |
| 67 | +5^#####.##.^5 |
| 68 | +6 ..##..### 6 |
| 69 | +7 #....#..# 7 |
| 70 | +``` |
| 71 | +This pattern reflects across the horizontal line between rows 4 and 5. Row 1 would reflect with a hypothetical row 8, |
| 72 | +but since that's not in the pattern, row 1 doesn't need to match anything. The remaining rows match: row 2 matches row |
| 73 | +7, row 3 matches row 6, and row 4 matches row 5. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +To **summarize** your pattern notes, add up **the number of columns** to the left of each vertical line of reflection; |
| 76 | +to that, also add **100 multiplied by the number of rows** above each horizontal line of reflection. In the above |
| 77 | +example, the first pattern's vertical line has `5` columns to its left and the second pattern's horizontal line has `4` |
| 78 | +rows above it, a total of **`405`**. |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +Find the line of reflection in each of the patterns in your notes. **What number do you get after summarizing all of |
| 81 | +your notes**? |
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