Ancient Messages
In order to understand early civilizations, archaeologists often study texts written
in ancient languages. One such language, used in Egypt more than 3000 years ago, is
based on characters called hieroglyphs. Figure 1 shows six hieroglyphs and their
names. In this problem, you will write a program to recognize these six characters.
Figure 1: Six hieroglyphs
Input Specification
The input consists of several test cases, each of which describes an image containing
one or more hieroglyphs chosen from among those shown in Figure 1. The image is given
in the form of a series of horizontal scan lines consisting of black pixels
(represented by 1) and white pixels (represented by 0). In the input data, each scan
line is encoded in hexadecimal notation. For example, the sequence of eight pixels
10011100
(one black pixel, followed by two white pixels, and so on) would
be represented in hexadecimal notation as 9c
. Only digits and lowercase
letters a
through f
are used in the hexadecimal encoding.
The first line of each test case contains two integers, H and W.
H (0 < H ≤ 200) is the number of scan
lines in the image. W (0 < W ≤ 50) is
the number of hexadecimal characters in each line. The next H lines contain
the hexadecimal characters of the image, working from top to bottom. Input images
conform to the following rules:
- The image contains only hieroglyphs shown in Figure 1.
- Each image contains at least one valid hieroglyph.
- Each black pixel in the image is part of a valid hieroglyph.
- Each hieroglyph consists of a connected set of black pixels, and each black pixel
has at least one other black pixel on its top, bottom, left, or right side.
- The hieroglyphs do not touch, and no hieroglyph is inside another hieroglyph.
- Two black pixels that touch diagonally will always have a common touching black
pixel.
- The hieroglyphs may be distorted, but each has a shape that is topologically
equivalent to one of the symbols in Figure 1. (Two figures are topologically
equivalent if each can be transformed into the other by stretching without tearing.)
The last test case is followed by a line containing two zeros.
Output Specification
For each test case, display its case number followed by a string containing one
character for each hieroglyph recognized in the image, using the following code:
Ankh: A
Wedjat: J
Djed: D
Scarab: S
Was: W
Akhet: K
In each output string, print the codes in alphabetic order. Follow the format of the
sample output.
The sample input contains descriptions of test cases shown in Figures 2 and 3. Due to
space constraints, not all of the sample input can be shown on this page.
Figures 2 and 3: Test cases in the sample input
Sample Input
100 25
0000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000
...(50 lines omitted)...
00001fe0000000000007c0000
00003fe0000000000007c0000
...(44 lines omitted)...
0000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000
150 38
00000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000
...(75 lines omitted)...
0000000003fffffffffffffffff00000000000
0000000003fffffffffffffffff00000000000
...(69 lines omitted)...
00000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000
0 0
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Output for Sample Input
Case 1: AKW
Case 2: AAAAA
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