@don :  According to question we want to find  "the maximum subsquare".
can you give me test case for which this wont work?



On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, that is not the same.
> It won't find a square smaller than s.
> Don
>
>
> On Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:56:29 AM UTC-4, atul007 wrote:
>
>> @Don : your algo time complexity is O(n^2)
>>
>> It can be reduced to this :-
>>
>> // Now look for largest square with top left corner at (i,j)
>>   for(i = 0; i < n; ++i)
>>       for(j = 0; j < n; ++j)
>>       {
>>             s = Min(countRight[i][j], countDown[i][j]);
>>             if (countRight[i][j] && countDown[i][j] &&
>> (countRight[i+s][j] >= s) && (countDown[i][j+s] >= s) && s>max)
>>             {
>>                bestI = i; bestJ = j; max = s;
>>             }
>>       }
>>
>> On 1/25/13, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The worst case I know of is when the matrix is solid black except for
>> > the lower right quadrant. In this case, it does break down into O(n^3)
>> > runtime. It took about 8 times as long to run n=4000 as it took for
>> > n=2000.
>> > Don
>> >
>> > On Jan 24, 10:29 am, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> I'm not sure I understand your case. However, I stated that there are
>> >> cases where it is worse than O(N^2). The runtime is highly dependent
>> >> on the contents of the matrix. In many cases it takes fewer than N^2
>> >> iterations. Occasionally it takes more. On average it seems to be
>> >> roughly O(N^2), but again that depends a lot on what is in the matrix.
>> >> I got that result by trying different ways of filling the matrix. I
>> >> tried things like randomly setting each pixel with various
>> >> probabilities, placing random horizontal and vertical segments,
>> >> placing random squares, or placing random filled squares. I did all of
>> >> those both in black on white and white on black. In all of those
>> >> cases, going from n=1000 to n=2000 resulted in a runtime increase of
>> >> less than a factor of 4.
>> >>
>> >> Don
>> >>
>> >> On Jan 23, 10:33 pm, bharat b <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > @Don: the solution is very nice.. But, how can u prove that it is
>> >> > O(n^2)..
>> >> > for me it seems to be O(n^3) ..
>> >>
>> >> > Ex: nxn matrix .. all 1s from (n/2,0) to (n/2,n/2).
>> >> > all 1s from (n/2,0) to (n,0).
>> >>
>> >> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > > The downside is that it uses a bunch of extra space.
>> >> > > The upside is that it is pretty fast. It only does the
>> time-consuming
>> >> > > task of scanning the matrix for contiguous pixels once, it only
>> >> > > searches for squares larger than what it has already found, and it
>> >> > > doesn't look in places where such squares could not be. In
>> practice
>> >> > > it
>> >> > > performs at O(n^2) or better for most inputs I tried. But if you
>> are
>> >> > > devious you can come up with an input which takes longer.
>> >> > > Don
>> >>
>> >> > > On Jan 17, 10:14 am, marti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > > > awesome solution Don . Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> > > > On Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:38:35 AM UTC+5:30, marti wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > > > > Imagine there is a square matrix with n x n cells. Each cell
>> is
>> >> > > > > either
>> >> > > > > filled with a black pixel or a white pixel. Design an
>> algorithm
>> >> > > > > to
>> >> > > find the
>> >> > > > > maximum subsquare such that all four borders are filled with
>> >> > > > > black
>> >> > > pixels;
>> >> > > > > optimize the algorithm as much as possible
>> >>
>> >> > > --
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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