《Problem A Cubist Artwork》.pdfVIP

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Regional Contest, Tokyo, 2009–11–08 Problem A Cubist Artwork Input: A.in International Center for Picassonian Cubism is a Spanish national museum of cubist artworks, dedicated to Pablo Picasso. The center held a competition for an artwork that will be displayed in front of the facade of the museum building. The artwork is a collection of cubes that are piled up on the ground and is intended to amuse visitors, who will be curious how the shape of the collection of cubes changes when it is seen from the front and the sides. The artwork is a collection of cubes with edges of one foot long and is built on a flat ground that is divided into a grid of one foot by one foot squares. Due to some technical reasons, cubes of the artwork must be either put on the ground, fitting into a unit square in the grid, or put on another cube in the way that the bottom face of the upper cube exactly meets the top face of the lower cube. No other way of putting cubes is possible. You are a member of the judging committee responsible for selecting one out of a plenty of artwork proposals submitted to the competition. The decision is made primarily based on artistic quality but the cost for installing the artwork is another important factor. Your task is to investigate the installation cost for each proposal. The cost is proportional to the number of cubes, so you have to figure out the minimum number of cubes needed for installation. Each design proposal of an artwork consists of the front view and the side view (the view seen from the right-hand side), as shown in Figure 1.